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There’s a new series in the works about a freshman senator, a lobbyist and a staffer. It’s a scripted drama for CBS, to be written by the Los Angeles-based team of Matt Corman and Chris Ord. The pilot they have been contracted to write is due in December.

New series: Capitol Hill meets Grey’s Anatomy 

There’s a new series in the works about a freshman senator, a lobbyist and a staffer. It’s a scripted drama for CBS, to be written by the Los Angeles-based team of Matt Corman and Chris Ord. The pilot they have been contracted to write is due in December.

You might be thinking, who are these nobodies? But it turns out they are famous — well, sort of. Their movie “Deck the Halls,” from Twentieth Century Fox, hits theaters in late November. The film stars Kristin Davis, Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito.

Last week the two thirtysomething men came to town for their first fact-finding mission to Washington for the script. In an effort to hang out with some movers and shakers, they dined at Caf