CBS Models Out Refurbished Cast Of Take advantage of Schneider Comedy Pilot

EXCLUSIVE: Diana Maria Riva and The spanish language actress Claudia Bassols are going to co-star opposite Take advantage of Schneider and Cheech Marin within the Schneider's untitled CBS comedy, that is shooting a brand new pilot for midseason consideration included in a current order which includes several backup scripts. The multi-camera comedy, which Schneider co-authored with Lew Morton in line with the actor's real-existence experience, stars Schneider as Take advantage of, a confirmed bachelor that has just married right into a tight-knit Mexican-American family. Bassols will have his wife Maggie and Riva his mother-in-law Rosa, roles performed within the original pilot by Nadine Velazquez and Ada Maris, correspondingly. Riva's age (she's more youthful than Schneider, who plays her boy-in-law, and way more youthful than Marin, who plays her husband) indicates a potential trophy wife scenario. This completes the recasting from the CBS Galleries/Tannenbaum Co. project, with new cast people Marin, Riva and Bassols joining pilot regulars Schneider, Eugenio Derbez because the wife's uncle and Lupe Ontiveros as her grandmother. Bassols is really a virually unknown within the U.S. but has has been doing numerous series in her own native The country. Riva, who recurred on Aaron Sorkin's Free Airline Wing and Studio 60, lately co-starred about the Fox dramedy The Great Men.