{"id":32658,"date":"2025-07-24T02:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32658\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T02:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T02:14:07","slug":"christopher-meloni-joins-dan-fogelmans-nfl-family-drama-at-hulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32658\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Meloni Joins Dan Fogelman&#8217;s NFL Family Drama at Hulu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/christopher-meloni\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christopher-meloni\" data-tag=\"christopher-meloni\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Meloni<\/a> is the first addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/dan-fogelman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dan-fogelman\" data-tag=\"dan-fogelman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Fogelman<\/a>\u2018s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/hulu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hulu\" data-tag=\"hulu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hulu<\/a> series set in the world of pro football, Variety has learned exclusively. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe untitled series was <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/tv\/news\/dan-fogelman-nfl-family-drama-series-hulu-1236178521\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/tv\/news\/dan-fogelman-nfl-family-drama-series-hulu-1236178521\/\">originally announced in October 2024<\/a>. Exact plot and character details are being kept mostly under wraps, aside from the fact the show is set inside the world of the NFL with a generational family component. Meloni will play the head coach of a team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMeloni is no stranger to the world of football, as he was the quarterback of his high school team at St. Stephen\u2019s &amp; St. Agnes School in Virginia. In 2007, he and the team were inducted into the school\u2019s hall of fame for their undefeated season in 1978. More recently, he appeared in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/kansas-city-chiefs-original-series-meloni-taylor-swift-1236273393\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/kansas-city-chiefs-original-series-meloni-taylor-swift-1236273393\/\">Kansas City Chiefs scripted series \u201cThe Magic Number<\/a>\u201d and has provided voice overs for NFL advertisements on Peacock. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMeloni is best known for his role as Elliot Stabler in the \u201cLaw &amp; Order\u201d franchise. He originated the character on \u201cLaw &amp; Order: SVU\u201d before reprising it in \u201cLaw &amp; Order: Organized Crime.\u201d The latter show debuted on NBC in 2021 before moving to Peacock for its fifth season, which launched in April 2025. Meloni has also starred in shows like \u201cOz\u201d at HBO, \u201cHappy!\u201d at Syfy, \u201cUnderground\u201d for WGN America, and both \u201cWet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp\u201d and \u201cWet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later\u201d at Netflix. In film, Meloni is known for \u201cWet Hot American Summer,\u201d \u201cMan of Steel,\u201d and \u201cHarold and Kumar Go to White Castle.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe is repped by Gersh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFogelman is the writer and executive producer on the series. Jess Rosenthal also exeuctive produces along with David Ellison, Jesse Sisgold, and Jason T. Reed for Skydance Sports. 20th Television will produce. Fogelman is currently under an overall deal at 20th TV. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis is the second series Fogelman has at Hulu. He is also the creator of the drama series \u201cParadise\u201d starring Sterling K. Brown and James Marsden, which is currently prepping its second season. He serves as an executive producer on the popular Hulu series \u201cOnly Murders in the Building\u201d as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christopher Meloni is the first addition to Dan Fogelman\u2018s upcoming Hulu series set in the world of pro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[27326,27327,88,10028],"class_list":["post-32658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-christopher-meloni","tag-dan-fogelman","tag-entertainment","tag-hulu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}