EXCLUSIVE:CBSis hoping its third time is a charm for its take on German proceduralEinstein.

The data pipe is developing a new take on the scripted format fromMonkpairAndy BreckmanandRandy Zisk.

This is the third attempt at developing the project for CBS.

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Four years on, Breckman and Zisk are giving it another go.

Breckman will write and Zisk will direct with both exec producing.

It is being produced by CBS Studios in association with Red Arrow Studios International.

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It starred Tom Beck as Professor Dr. Felix Einstein Winterberg and Annika Ernst as police commissioner Elena Lange.

It was produced by Zeitsprung Pictures.

CBS Entertainment President Amy Reisenbachrecently sat down with Deadlineto discuss the networks programming strategy.

She said that she still expects to pick up somedevelopmentrooms and potentially even a comedy pilot or two.

I like to say that were just not being beholden to a certain calendar.

So yeah, were not going to necessarily be stuck in that calendar year.

To me, its pilot season now all the time, she said.