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‘B Positive’ creator’s kidney transplant inspired new CBS sitcom

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There’s more to the clever title of “B Positive” than meets the eye.The new CBS sitcom, starring Annaleigh Ashford and Thomas Middleditch, was created by series vet Marco Pennette — who based its premise on his 2013 kidney transplant.“Unlike Drew [Middleditch], I’m a diabetic, but even I was taken by surprise and didn’t see it coming,” Pennette, 54, says of his transplant. “I wasn’t really prepared for that.

The doctor said, ‘You should start thinking of asking a friend to be a kidney donor.’ He said it as casually as that, and I was like, ‘What?!’“I ended up going on a weird Easter egg hunt, asking lots of friends to coffee,” he says. “The doctor said, ‘You will be surprised who says yes and equally surprised who says no.’ And he was.

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