CBS orders comedy series based on 'Bad Teacher' movie Ari Graynor arrives at the Vanity Fair Tribeca Film Festival Party in New York City on April 16, 2013. NEW YORK, May 22 (UPI) -- CBS says it has ordered a single-camera comedy based on the 2011 Hollywood film "Bad Teacher" for the 2013-14 television season. Graynor, a former cast member of "The Sopranos," will play "an always inappropriate, fearless and unapologetic former trophy wife who masquerades as a teacher in order to find a new man after her wealthy husband leaves her penniless," a synopsis of "Bad Teacher" said. Cameron Diaz played the role in the film version.