Yvette Nicole Brown should be in extremely high spirits. Theactress survived the cancellation of NBC’s show, only to find out thatwill return for a sixth season via Yahoo . Now, she’s signed on to CBS’reboot, playing the assistant to one of the two leads on the show.With a pick-up from CBS and a midseason premiere date in the cards, you would think most of the big roles onwould have already been cast. However, Yvette Nicole Brown is set to play Dani, the assistant to Matthew Perry’s character, Oscar, on the show. In the pilot, the character was played byactress Sarah Baker. However, back in May, we mentioned that two of the show’s female actresses,’s Georgia King and Baker, left after the pilot was shot, leaving a couple of slots to be filled. While Brown is taking Baker’s slot, mum’s the word on whether King’s role will also be recast.It’s hard to appear in regular roles on more than one series in any given season, but TV Line is reporting that Yvette Nicole Brown should be able to shoot bothandin the coming months. While it isn’t clear if the actress will appear in every episode of, the scheduling should still work out pretty well, since filming onis expected to begin shortly and’s Season 6 production is still some time away.is a remake of Neil Simon’s popular 1970s series. CBS’ brand new episodes star Thomas Lennon and Matthew Perry, who play Felix and Oscar, respectively. The two men are unlikely roommates—one neat, the other disorganized. Recentcastoff Wendell Pierce andactress Lindsay Sloane round out the cast. A lot of's cast features actors whose shows recently did not work out. The good news is that Perry, Lennon, Brown, Pierce and more are all pretty damn funny, and really just need the right material to find an audience. Hopefully,has the magic "it" factor.There is still quite some time before Brown and the rest ofcast pop up on our televisions. CBS has a pretty stacked lineup this fall, and even though a few comedies, including, are no longer on the schedule, there’s not a lot of room in the schedule to cater to new comedies. Luckily, while CBS is usually a ratings juggernaut, there are always a couple of shows that perform dismally each season, which meanswill get its day to shine on network TV, eventually.