{"id":978943,"date":"2026-08-04T00:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/978943\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:23:12","slug":"cbs-greenlights-hilda-in-lights-comedy-pilot-about-70-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/978943\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Greenlights ‘Hilda! (In Lights!)’ Comedy Pilot About 70-Year-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn keeping with its long-term development strategy, CBS<\/a> is the first broadcast network to order a pilot for 2027-28 consideration. The network has greenlighted the single-camera comedy Hilda! (In Lights!), from CBS Studios, which had been in advanced development<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by Abbey Caldwell<\/a> (Laid), Hilda! (In Lights!)<\/a> is described as one of those classic shows about a plucky small-town optimist who moves to the big city to pursue her life-long dream of starring on Broadway. There\u2019s just one teeny, tiny, totally inconsequential difference\u2026 our hero Hilda is a 70-year-old woman from Nebraska with absolutely no experience.<\/p>\n

\n\tCaldwell executive produces with Will Graham, Max Linsky and Tonia Davis for Invitation Media.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs announced during the network\u2019s fall 2026 schedule reveal<\/a> in April, Hilda! (In Lights!) was among the first three projects in development at CBS that were identified as 2027-28 contenders with a move to the next stage after a pilot script.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo of them, Hilda! (In Lights!) and forensic drama I Know Who You Are, received an order for two additional scripts each, while CBS commissioned a development room for the third, cop drama Flint, starring and executive produced by Matt LeBlanc.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, CBS confirmed at the time that a medical spinoff in the world of Fire Country and Sheriff Country was in early development.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Edgewater medical drama, I Know Who You Are and Flint \u2014 all from CBS Studios \u2014 remain active and in contention for the 2027-28 season, with a Sheriff Country planted spinoff episode for the first one considered likely.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith Hilda! (In Lights!), CBS is further pulling away from multi-camera comedy, a hallmark of the network for decades. In what is believed to be a first, CBS has more single-camera than multi-camera sitcoms on the schedule in the upcoming 2026-27 season with Ghosts and Eternally Yours vs. Georgie & Mandy\u2019s First Marriage.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf the pilot goes to series, it would give CBS a comedy and a drama with a female lead in her 70s as Hilda! (In Lights!) would be looking to join hit Matlock staring Kathy Bates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In keeping with its long-term development strategy, CBS is the first broadcast network to order a pilot for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":978944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[392862,15328,171,392863,138166,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-978943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abbey-caldwell","tag-cbs","tag-entertainment","tag-hilda-in-lights","tag-pilot-orders","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117034392225331980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/978944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}