Jenna Bush Hager is known for her work on daytime TV, but she’s about to make the move to nighttime.
A trailer for the new NBC drama “Line of Fire,” which is executive produced by the TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle co-host, debuted exclusively on TODAY Aug. 20.
“A family of law enforcement agents bridges personal differences and crosses professional boundaries as they tackle cases for the FBI, US Marshals, Secret Service and Department of Justice,” reads NBC’s logline for the series, which was created, written, and showrun by Joshua Safran.
“After a seemingly cut-and-dry case turns into a deadly conspiracy, they must use the expertise from a lifetime of protecting civilians and politicians to protect one another and bring the killer to justice … even if it means betraying their sworn code.”
Emmy nominees Peter Krause and Hope Davis star as a Secret Service agent husband and federal marshal wife, while Taylor Bloom, Kat Cunning and Tommy O’Brien play their kids, each in their own field of law enforcement.
The trailer weaves the complexities of family relationships with the challenge of working in law enforcement.
“Your whole family works in the field,” a man tells Bloom in the beginning of the trailer. “Two Secret Service Agents, a U.S. Marshal, a fed, and, now, a DOJ analyst. What your dinner table conversations must be like.”
“We’d have to have dinner together to know,” Bloom replies.
The trailer shows how the family interacts on various cases, balancing professional and personal affairs, before we see the group being told a killer was out to get one of them.
“How do you protect the world and the people you love in it at the same time?” Davis asks as the trailer ends.
After Carson Daly introduced the trailer on PopStart, Jenna shared that one of her former Secret Service agents served as a consultant for the series.
“I bet he’s got stories,” Savannah Guthrie said with a laugh.
“He’s got one or two,” Jenna responded.
Jenna spoke more about the series at the network’s Backlot Press Day Aug. 10 in Los Angeles.
“This is also about a family. I knew these people … I had Secret Service men who would leave their family to protect mine,” she said. “So the dynamics of that are very much part of the DNA of what Josh has written.”
Krause, who previously starred on ABC’s first responder procedural “9-1-1” for eight seasons, called his newest project a “very interesting, unusual” show on TODAY in May.
“It’s a fantastic family-centered show, which is an action thriller, and the writer Josh Safran brings a lot of family dynamics to it —the good, the bad, the ugly, the funny, the sexy,” Krause said.
He also joked around about working with Jenna.
“You know, I’d be out there filming and I’d hear, ‘Again! Again! Faster, louder, funnier!’” he quipped.
“She’s been fantastic. Absolutely fantastic,” he added.
“Line of Fire” premieres Sept. 21 at 10 p.m. ET on NBC.
