Kevin Spacey and Fox News’ Megyn Kelly Team on Fox 21 TV Adaptation of ‘The Residence’
Fox 21 Television Studios won the option to bestseller “The Residence” by Kate Andersen Brower following a highly competitive bidding process, with Kevin Spacey and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly attached to produce.
The book follows the upstairs/downstairs relationships between White House staff and various presidential families throughout the years, an all-American “Downton Abbey.”
Spacey and “House of Cards” producing partner Dana Brunetti are attached to executive produce through Trigger Street. Kelly makes her first foray into scripted television as co-EP, and Anderson Brower serves as technical consultant.
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“The book is so well-written, and the perfect source material for the kind of show we like to make,” Fox 21 TV Studios President Bert Salke said in a statement. “We’re interested in things that are both challenging and insightful but also multigenerational and multicultural.”
“The White House is our royalty,” Salke added. “This is stuff you haven’t seen before — and it’s real.”
A search for a writer for the project is underway, and it is expected to be shopped to cable networks soon.
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