CBS has given a pilot order to a comedy series titled “Hilda! (In Lights!)” about an elderly woman who moves to New York City to pursue her Broadway dreams.

Three scripts for the single-camera project, from writer and executive producer Abbey Caldwell, were announced as being in development at the studio in April. The logline reads: “One of those classic shows about a plucky small-town optimist who moves to the big city to pursue her lifelong dream of starring on Broadway. There’s just one teeny, tiny, totally inconsequential difference… our hero Hilda is a 70-year-old woman from Nebraska with absolutely no experience.”

Caldwell’s non-writing executive producers include Will Graham, Max Linsky and Tonia Davis for Invitation Media. The project is produced by CBS Studios.

The “Hilda! (In Lights!)” news comes as CBS has taken bets on a handful of new, original projects. “Eternally Yours,” a vampire comedy from “Ghosts” duo Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, is premiering on Oct. 8 alongside the Silicon Valley-set legal drama “Cupertino” from Robert and Michelle King. Tara Hernandez’s comedy pilot “The Tillbrooks” (formerly known as “Regency”) — a historical spin on the classic multi-camera family sitcom — was also ordered to pilot but will not be moving forward.

On the CBS 2026-2027 schedule is the new “NCIS” spinoff “NCIS: New York,” which will see LL Cool J reprising his role as Sam Hanna. That show will debut on Oct. 6.

New series “Einstein,” a dramedy starring Matthew Gray Gubler as the brilliant but directionless great-grandson of Albert Einstein, will premiere in the second half of the season.