CBS Orders Comic-Thriller 'BrainDead'

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Aliens have eaten the brains of a growing number of congressmen and Hill staffers. Sounds like a documentary, but it is in fact a straight-to-series CBS order for 13 episodes of BrainDead, a one-hour comic-thriller set in a dysfunctional D.C.

It is the first project from Robert and Michelle King under their three-year production deal with CBS Television Studios and is written and executive produced by the Kings. Ridley Scott, David Zucker and Liz Glotzer will executive produce as well.

The show is described as The Strain crossed with The West Wing.

The Kings will remain executive producers on CBS' The Good Wife.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.