WGA Award winner Cathryn Humphris is set to pen an FBI procedural drama being developed at Fox, reports Variety. She’s working on the hour-long, untitled series with former “Law & Order: SVU” showrunner Neal Baer.
The series is described as “a character-driven procedural that follows a newly-assembled FBI task force — a distinguished cop, a hard-driving lawyer, a psychologist, and a social media expert — as they travel the country investigating and solving hate crimes.” The team’s goal is ambitious: They hope “to bring justice to those who have been wronged and foster healing in the communities that have been fractured by the hate crimes, even as cases bring up old wounds and personal demons for the agents.”
Fox snagged the procedural with a script plus penalty commitment.
In 2011, Humphris scored a WGA Award for her work on “Mad Men.” Her other credits include “Supernatural,” “Elementary,” and “Ringer.”
“I love being in the writers’ room,” Humphris has said. “I love breaking story. I’m really social; I love working with other writers. I would be a terrible feature writer, sitting alone in a room writing. That’s kind of the part of the process that I like the least,” she explained.
Humphris and Baer previously worked together on “Under the Dome,” a CBS science fiction series. Bauer served as showrunner and Humphris was eventually promoted to co-exec producer on the series, which broke ratings records when it debuted in the summer of 2013.
The new project hails from Baer Bones Productions — Baer’s production company — and 20th Century Fox Television. Humphris and Baer will executive produce, and Baer Bones Productions’ Jessica Shulman will co-exec produce.