CBS Orders Chuck Lorre's Funny Fat Pilot

Chuck Lorre – the hit-maker behind the CBS sitcoms Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory - has scored a new pilot deal at CBS. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lorre will be bringing us Mike and Molly along with Men producer Mark Roberts, who also wrote the script.

Mike and Molly is a multi-camera ensemble comedy "revolving around a couple who struggle with overeating and meet at Overeaters Anonymous."

In other pilot news, Emmy Rossum (The Phantom of the Opera) will be starring with William H. Macy (Fargo) in John Wells' (ER, The West Wing) Showtime pilot, Shameless. West Wing vet Allison Janney, and Justin Chatwin, will also be a part of the Wells pilot - which is based on the critically acclaimed British series of the same name – about The Gallaghers, a working-class Chicago clan dealing with the recession.

Macy will be playing the alcoholic patriarch while Rossum will be the smart but unpredictable 18-year-old daughter, Fiona, who is tasked with keeping her five younger brothers and sisters on the straight and narrow. Janney will be playing a love interest for Macy and Chatwin will be playing a car thief in love with Fiona. Monk Seasons 1-8 DVD Boxset