Country Music Drama ‘Monarch’ Ordered To Series At Fox, Marks First Fully Owned Live-Action Scripted Show - Deadline

The network has handed a series order to Monarch, formerly known as the Untitled Country Music Dynasty drama, from Melissa London Hilfers.

Hilfers created the series, which I hear is getting a 12-episode order, and will write and exec produce, while Instinct creator and Royal Pains exec producer Michael Rauch, who supervised the writers room for the oroject, will act as showrunner and exec producer.

Gail Berman and Hend Baghdady also exec produce alongside Sandbox Entertainment’s Jason Owen, a leading country music manager who represents the likes of Faith Hill, Little Big Town and Kacey Musgraves.

It marks the first live-action scripted series fully owned by Fox, since the sale of 20th Television to Disney, and represents an evolution for the independent network.