FOX Picks Up Pair of New Dramas

FOX has officially ordered the drama The Cleaning Lady, based on an Argentinian series, and the country music series Monarch.

The Cleaning Lady is described as a “darkly aspirational character drama” about a whip-smart doctor who comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. When the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she becomes a cleaning lady for the mob and starts playing the game by her own rules.

Miranda Kwok (The 100, Spartacus: Blood and Sand) serves as executive producer and writer, with Melissa Carter (Queen Sugar, DC’s Stargirl) as executive producer and showrunner. Shay Mitchell (Dollface, Pretty Little Liars, You) is also among the EPs. The cast includes Elodie Yung, Adan Canto, Martha Millan, Sebastien LaSalle and Valentino LaSalle. The show is from Warner Bros. Television and FOX Entertainment. The Cleaning Lady is based on Argentinian format La Chica Que Limpia.

FOX also ordered the new drama Monarch (fka Untitled Country Music Dynasty), from executive producers Melissa London Hilfers (creator), Michael Rauch (showrunner), Gail Berman, Hend Baghdady and Jason Owen, to series for 2021-22. Owned by FOX Entertainment, Monarch is one of FOX’s first two series to bypass a pilot order, advance straight to a writers’ room commitment and subsequently be ordered to series (joining Our Kind of People).

Monarch is a Texas-sized, multigenerational musical drama about America’s first family of country music. The Romans are fiercely talented, but while their name is synonymous with honesty, the very foundation of their success is a lie. When their reign as country royalty is put in jeopardy, Nicky Roman, the heir to the crown, already battling an industry stacked against her, will stop at nothing to protect her family’s legacy.