CBS Picks Up Female-Driven Crime Pilot from Eva Longoria

After a tense bidding war, REAL DEAL, from Eva Longoria and Conde Nast, has landed at CBS with a put penalty, according to Deadline.

The project, based upon a Glamour article from 2005, follows " two polar opposite women - an ambitious FBI agent and an uncontrollable criminal Confidential Informant - who must find common ground if they're going to survive both the streets of Los Angeles and each other."

To read the original Glamour article, courtesy of Deadline, click here.

The actress has received two Screen Actors Guild Awards and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Longoria promotes humanitarian causes and was named Philanthropist of the year.

Longoria portrayed Isabella Braña on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless from 2001 to 2003, and Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. For her work on Desperate Housewives, she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. She has also starred in films such as Harsh Times (2005), The Sentinel (2006), and Over Her Dead Body (2008).

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