Fox Greenlights Edie Falco Legal Drama 'Katie Greaves' — SkimNews
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- Fox has ordered legal drama 'Katie Greaves' (working title) to series with Edie Falco attached as the lead, targeting the 2027-28 season and produced by Fox Entertainment Studios.
- Sharr White, playwright and TV writer (Apple TV's Presumed Innocent, Netflix's Halston), serves as showrunner and writer, with Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker of Scott Free Productions executive producing alongside Falco and White.
- The show was one of three Fox drama frontrunners identified in January, alongside The Interrogator (greenlit in February for 2026-27) and Blood Ties by Tom Szentgyorgyi.
- Fox increasingly uses a strategy of greenlighting dramas only after securing a popular TV star as lead, having also employed it for Best Medicine with Josh Charles and Memory of a Killer with Patrick Dempsey in final negotiations.
- Falco plays a former New Hampshire Public Defender's office attorney who stepped away after personal tragedy, is now raising two granddaughters, and returns to cases where 'everyone deserves a second chance,' per the character description.
- 'Katie Greaves' is Fox's second scripted pickup for 2027-28 following comedy Mammoth, with both projects reflecting the network's push to increase ownership of its scripted content through Fox Entertainment Studios.
- Falco is a four-time Emmy winner (three for The Sopranos, one for Nurse Jackie) coming off the fifth and final season of Paramount+'s Mayor of Kingstown opposite Jeremy Renner; she is repped by CAA and Entertainment 360.
Why it matters: Fox is methodically converting its development slate into series by attaching A-list TV stars before committing — Best Medicine, Memory of a Killer, and now Falco's 'Katie Greaves' — while also shifting production in-house via Fox Entertainment Studios to own more of its scripted content rather than relying on outside studios.
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