{"id":259018,"date":"2026-01-26T21:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/259018\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:50:08","slug":"fx-sets-jfk-jr-and-carolyn-bessette-love-story-premiere-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/259018\/","title":{"rendered":"FX Sets JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette ‘Love Story’ Premiere Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt\u2019s a love story<\/a>, FX-on-Hulu viewers, just say yes.<\/p>\n

\n\tFX has set the premiere date for the inaugural season of Ryan Murphy<\/a>\u2018s newest anthology series, Love Story, which is focused on JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. The debut is timed to Valentine\u2019s Day, which is a pretty good scheduling peg. That said, no one wants a Saturday series, so Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette will bow on Thursday, Feb. 12. The season\u2019s first three episodes will launch that evening on FX and Hulu (and on Disney+ internationally) beginning at 9 p.m. ET. After that, one new episode of the subsequent six will air\/stream each week.<\/p>\n

\n\tLove Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette\u00a0is inspired by Elizabeth Beller\u2019s book\u00a0Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. Paul Anthony Kelly will play JFK Jr. and Sarah Pidgeon will portray Bessette.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was a love story that captured the attention of the nation: John F. Kennedy Jr. was the closest thing to American royalty. The country watched him grow from a boy to a beloved bachelor and media sensation,\u201d the FX press release, which I guess doubles as a logline, reads. \u201cCarolyn Bessette was a star in her own right. Fiercely independent and with a singular style, she rose from being a sales assistant to an executive at Calvin Klein, and became a trusted confidante of its eponymous founder. John and Carolyn\u2019s connection was immediate, electric and undeniable. As their love story unfolded on a national stage, the intense fame and media attention that came along with it threatened to rip them apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJFK Jr. and Bessette-Kennedy died in 1999 when his single-engine airplane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha\u2019s Vineyard. Bessette\u2019s sister Lauren Bessette also died. The\u00a0National Transportation Safety Board\u00a0(NTSB)\u00a0determined the cause of the accident to be spatial disorientation while flying over the ocean at night. In its most basic sense, the pilot loses their sense of up and down.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series also stars Grace Gummer\u00a0as Caroline Kennedy,\u00a0Naomi Watts\u00a0as Jackie Kennedy Onassis,\u00a0Alessandro Nivola\u00a0as Calvin Klein,\u00a0Leila George\u00a0as Kelly Klein,\u00a0Sydney Lemmon\u00a0as Lauren Bessette) and\u00a0Constance Zimmer\u00a0as Ann Marie Messina.<\/p>\n

\n\tOK wait, so here\u2019s the actual logline: \u201cLove Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette\u00a0charts the complex and heartbreaking journey of a couple whose private love became a national obsession.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLove Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette\u00a0is created by\u00a0Connor Hines\u00a0and executive produced by\u00a0Murphy,\u00a0Nina Jacobson,\u00a0Brad Simpson,\u00a0Connor Hines,\u00a0Eric Kovtun,\u00a0Nissa Diederich,\u00a0Scott Robertson,\u00a0Monica Levinson,\u00a0Kim Rosenstock,\u00a0D.V. DeVincentis\u00a0and\u00a0Tanase Popa.\u00a0Max Winkler\u00a0executive produced and directed the pilot episode; the series is produced by 20th Television.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tLove Story: JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette poster<\/p>\n

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