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"CBS is developing a new medical drama for the 2013-14 television season. Island Practice is based on the book of the same name by Pam Belluck, which tells the true story of Timothy Lepore, a medic who has worked on the island of Nantucket since the 1980s. Amy Holden Jones (Beethoven, Mystic Pizza) will adapt Belluck&amp;#039;s work for television, with Lepore himself serving as consultant. The planned CBS series will be loosely based on Lepore&amp;#039;s life, focusing on an &amp;quot;eccentric maverick&amp;quot; who practices &amp;quot;controversial&amp;quot; medicine, according to Deadline. The project will be produced by 20th Century Fox TV, Imagine TV and 3 Arts Entertainment. Other TV pilots in the works at CBS include a crime drama from Bones creator Hart Hanson and the sitcom Ex-Men starring House actor Kal Penn. &amp;gt; CBS unveils fall premiere dates: Elementary, Partners, Vegas &amp;gt; Two and a Half Men teamed with Big Bang Theory in CBS fall lineup "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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