NBC Slates Trio of New Series for 2010-11

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC has announced three series pickups for the 2010-11 season: the dramatic thriller The Event, the comedy Outsourced and the romantic anthology series Love Bites.

The Event is a conspiracy thriller starring Jason Ritter (The Class). He stars as Sean Walker, an everyman who investigates the mysterious disappearance of his fiance and unwittingly begins to expose the biggest cover-up in U.S. history. Also in the cast are Sarah Roemer (Disturbia), Blair Underwood (Dirty Sexy Money), Laura Innes (E.R.) and Scott Patterson (Gilmore Girls).

The comedy Outsourced follows an all-American company—that sells whoopee cushions, foam fingers and wallets made of bacon—whose call center gets outsourced to India. The company’s new manager decides to give his new staff a crash-course in all things American. The show stars Ben Rappaport (off-Broadway’s The Gingerbread House), Rizwan Manji (Privileged), Sacha Dhawan (BBC’s Five Days II), Rebecca Hazlewood (BBC’s Doctors), Parvesh Cheena (Help Me Help You) and Anisha Nagarajan (Broadway’s Bombay Dreams). 

Love Bites is an hour-long romantic comedy anthology series from writer-producer Cindy Chupack (Sex and the City). Each episode contains multiple vignettes, all with a theme of love and featuring an edgy spin. Becki Newton (Ugly Betty) stars as Annie and Jordana Spiro (My Boys) stars as Frannie, the last two single girls standing after all of their friends get married.

"Each of these three series reflects a unique point of view and distinct style of quality that fits perfectly with NBC’s dedication to rebuilding the schedule," said Angela Bromstad, the president of primetime entertainment at NBC and Universal Media Studios. "These series showcase excellent writing and casting, and represent the kind of scripted programming our network and studio are committed to producing."