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When you return as many franchise series as CBS did this year, you don't change the schedule so much as shift the tiles around like a giant Rubik's Cube.

CBS introduced its prime-time 2013-2014 schedule on Wednesday, featuring eight new series -- five comedies and three dramas.

Top-rated CBS will beef up its comedy next fall with series starring Robin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tony Shalhoub, Allison Janney and Will Arnett .

Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar . Toni Collette and Dylan McDermott . Anna Faris and Allison Janney .

CBS is going for star power - both in front and behind the camera - with its series pickups, ordering projects starring Robin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Anna Faris, Allison Janney, Will Arnett, Kal Penn, Tony Shalhoub, Jerry O'Connell, Toni Collette, Dylan McDermott, Josh Holloway, Marg Helgenberger from writers/producers Chuck Lorre, Greg ... (more)

Do CBS executives want another Chuck Lorre sitcom on their schedule next season? Of course they do! The network has given Lorre's Mom pilot a series order, along with three other shows.

CBS has ordered its first brand-new series for the 2013-2014 television season today, and it's a half-hour comedy re-team with Chuck Lorre Productions.

Responsible for "Two and a Half Men," "Mike & Molly" and "The Big Bang Theory," Chuck Lorre is CBS' reigning golden boy of comedy, and he is about to land a fourth show on the network.