After working out a deal with writer-director, Tate Taylor, Fox has ordered his southern drama, Filthy Rich, to series.
The show, which stars Kim Cattrall, generated strong buzz throughout the pilot process. The reason Filthy Rich was announced ordered to series a bit late in the game, had to do with writer/director/exec producer’s Taylor availability as his film schedule may not allow for the series to be ready for fall. It looks like this scheduling issue was worked out and now the series will be added to the schedule and will be paired with Empire, as it’s said to be a good companion for that show.
Filthy Rich has had a three-year journey to the screen. The network originally bought the pitch last development season with a put pilot commitment. It did not go to pilot, and Taylor went on to direct the movie Eve starring Jessica Chastain. Both sides remained high on the project, which led to a meeting last December between Fox Entertainment president Michael Thorn, Collier and the Imagine team where the drama got a pilot green light on the spot.
Filthy Rich, based on the New Zealand series of the same name from Filthy Productions, is a Southern Gothic family drama in which wealth, power and religion collide – with outrageously soapy results. When the patriarch of a mega-rich Southern family, famed for creating a wildly successful Christian television network, dies in a plane crash, his wife and family are stunned to learn that he fathered three illegitimate children, all of whom are written into his will, threatening their family name and fortune. With monumental twists and turns, Filthy Rich presents a world in which everyone has an ulterior motive – and no one is going down without a fight. The series stars Aubrey Dollar, Corey Cott, Benjamin Aguilar, Mark L. Young, Melia Kreiling, Steve Harris, David Denman and Olivia Macklin
