I love that stuff.”įox has long considered itself a leader in musical programming, offering scripted shows like “Empire” and “Glee” as well as reality series like “American Idol” and “The Masked Singer.” Having surveyed the current landscape, which includes Paramount’s countrified streaming hit “Yellowstone,” Fox determined this was the time to make its country play. Bad behavior competes with messy love at every turn. Part “King Lear,” part prime-time soap opera, “Monarch” plays like Fox’s hip-hop hit “Empire” in a Stetson.
(Hilfers is the creator and, alongside Berman, an executive producer.) The Romanov dynasty has been replaced by the Roman family, a bickering, spiteful bunch that clings to its reputation as the first family of country music and leaves a trail of corpses in its wake. Hilfers’s idea has since evolved into the new Fox drama “Monarch,” premiering Sunday. As she recalled in a recent video interview, she had a flash: “What if we reimagined the Romanov dynasty as a family of country music stars in Austin, Texas?” Berman liked the pitch. She had grown up in a big Maryland family that liked to jam in the living room with friends, her dad leading the way on guitar. Berman mentioned that Fox was looking into doing a dramatic series based in the country music world.
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A few years ago, the writer Melissa London Hilfers was having lunch with her friend Gail Berman, the TV and movie producer.
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