NBC Pickups: THE EVENT, OUTSOURCED & LOVE BITES

NBC greenlight three new shows for 2010/11

By Dan Owen /

NBC have greenlit three new television shows for the 2010/11 season. They are: The Event, created by Nick Wauters (The 4400), starring Jason Ritter (The Class) as a man whose investigation into his missing fiance exposes a huge government cover-up, to co-star Laura Innes (ER), Sarah Roemer (Disturbia), Scott Patterson (Gilmore Girls), Zeljko Ivanek (Damages) and Blair Underwood (Dirty Sexy Money) as the US President; Outsourced, about a novelty company from the mid-west of America that has its call centre outsourced to India, starring Ben Rappaport; and writer-director Cindy Chupak (Sex & The City) has created Love Bites, an hourlong comedy about two single women whose friends have all married, starring Becki Newton (Ugly Betty) and Jordana Spiro (My Boys).