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NBC has picked up a comedy pilot from The New Adventures of Old Christine creator Kari Lizer, the network declared Friday.

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The untitled workplace comedy will edifice on a relationship-challenged blackamoor who guides people through unheralded career transitions and downsizings with the support of her co-workers.

Lizar's Old Christine enwrapped its five-year separate on CBS terminal May.

The network also picked up two episode pilots. Prime Suspect is an adaptation of the nation miniseries in which a someone officer has to make her bones in a thickened New royalty precinct dominated by men. wife Aubrey and saint Berg (Friday Night Lights) will chief produce alongside Alexandra Cunningham.

The Crossing, written by St. Elsewhere co-creator Josh Brand, takes locate in the consequence of the Civil War and centers on a soldier who crosses the country and settles into a complicated town where he is welcomed as its deliverer — whether he likes it or not.