Katie Holmes to Star in Ilene Chaiken Fox Drama Pilot
“Dawson’s Creek” alum will also executive produce
Ashley Boucher | February 20, 2018 @ 12:27 PM
Last Updated: February 20, 2018 @ 12:41 PM
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Katie Holmes has been cast in the lead role for the untitled drama pilot from Ilene Chaiken and Melissa Scrivner Love at Fox, the network said Tuesday.
She will play FBI Special Agent Hazel Otis, who has an affair with a prominent general in the midst of a domestic terrorism threat. The affair poses to threaten her career and her future at the FBI, and Hazel becomes labeled “the Mistress.” She works to rebuild her professional and personal reputation.
The “Dawson’s Creek” alum will also executive produce, along with Ilene Chaiken, Melissa Scrivner Love, Judy Smith, and Oly Obst. The still-untitled pilot is produced by 20th Century Fox Television and 3 Arts Entertainment.
Holmes is repped by ICM, Untitled and Robert Offer of Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern.
Live TV Musicals Ranked by Ratings, From 'Rent' to 'Grease' (Photos)
Fox’s “Rent” got evicted in ratings on Sunday -- at least, when comparing the semi-live TV musical to all the ones that came before it. And yes, that includes another poor performer, Fox’s “A Christmas Story Live.”
Due to a key cast member’s injury, the network's “Rent” used mostly pre-taped footage from a Saturday dress rehearsal and couldn't hold a (lit or unlit) candle to Fox and NBC's previous live TV musicals among adults in the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demographic or in total viewers.
Scroll through our gallery to see how each of broadcast TV's previous live productions ranks by Nielsen numbers since the genre's rebirth. Least-viewed is first, most-watched last.
The rock opera "Hair" is set as NBC's next live TV musical and slated to air this spring, after Jennifer Lopez's "Bye Bye Birdie" -- the network's original next musical -- was delayed multiple times.
Fox’s Sunday effort is the lowest-rated and least-watched since the genre’s rebirth — here are the ones that did better
Fox’s “Rent” got evicted in ratings on Sunday -- at least, when comparing the semi-live TV musical to all the ones that came before it. And yes, that includes another poor performer, Fox’s “A Christmas Story Live.”
Due to a key cast member’s injury, the network's “Rent” used mostly pre-taped footage from a Saturday dress rehearsal and couldn't hold a (lit or unlit) candle to Fox and NBC's previous live TV musicals among adults in the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demographic or in total viewers.
Scroll through our gallery to see how each of broadcast TV's previous live productions ranks by Nielsen numbers since the genre's rebirth. Least-viewed is first, most-watched last.