• April 27, 2001

Viewers won't be checking into "The Seven Roses" this fall.

The show's producer, Paramount Network Television, has instead pushed the CBS comedy pilot, set in a family-run hotel, back for midseason consideration.

Sources say Paramount wasn't able to cast the project's male lead in time to shoot the pilot for a potential fall berth. At this point in the development game, most pilots are wrapping and some have already been delivered to the networks.

"Seven Roses" stars Brenda Blethyn as Pamela, an ex-stage actress and recently widowed woman in her late-50s who runs a western Massachusetts inn along with her adult children. Theater veteran Kristin Chenoweth also stars.

- Reuters/Variety