{"id":828084,"date":"2026-08-27T23:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T23:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828084\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T23:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T23:54:10","slug":"ellen-pompeo-to-star-in-not-a-sound-drama-in-works-at-hulu-exclu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828084\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Pompeo To Star In ‘Not A Sound’ Drama In Works At Hulu (Exclu)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: In March 2005, one freshman ABC drama, David E. Kelley<\/a>\u2018s Boston Legal, wrapped its season in the Sunday 10 PM slot to make room for another rookie, Grey\u2019s Anatomy starring Ellen Pompeo<\/a>, which launched in the time period a week later. <\/p>\n

\n\tTwenty-one years after that handover, Pompeo and Kelley have come together for a new drama project, Not a Sound<\/a>, in which Pompeo, known for her role as Dr. Meredith Grey on Grey\u2019s Anatomy, will play another medical professional. It has been set up at Hulu<\/a> for development through 20th Television,where Kelley was once based for 22 years and where Pompeo is under an overall deal.<\/p>\n

\n\tNot a Sound is written by David E. Kelley Productions president Matthew Tinker and Annakate Chappell \u2014 who worked together as writers on Kelley\u2019s Big Sky \u2013\u2013 based on Heather Gudenkauf\u2019s novel of the same name, with Azazel Jacobs (His Three Daughters) set to direct.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn it, after losing her hearing in a devastating hit-and-run, disgraced ER nurse Amelia Winn (Pompeo) and her fiercely loyal service dog discover the murdered body of a former colleague \u2014 pulling Amelia into a deadly mystery that could finally reveal the truth about the accident that changed her life.<\/p>\n

\n\tChappell executive produces alongside Jacobs and David E. Kelley Prods.\u2019 Kelley and Tinker and Calamity Jane\u2019s Pompeo and Laura Holstein. 20th Television is the studio. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tL-R: Matthew Tinker, Annakate Chappell and Azazel Jacobs<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty\/ennifer Gluck\/Courtesy<\/p>\n

\n\tPompeo recently received two green lights from Hulu, for a second season of anthology series <\/a>Good American Family<\/a>, which she is executive producing, and dramedy pilot\u00a0Chicks, which she is\u00a0starring in and executive produces. She is partnered on both with Katie Robbins. <\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, Pompeo stars in and executive produces ABC\u2019s venerable medical drama\u00a0Grey\u2019s Anatomy, which is\u00a0headed into its 23rd season<\/a>. She also executive produced spinoff series\u00a0Station 19\u00a0and is an executive producer on the\u00a0upcoming\u00a0Grey\u2019s\u00a0offshoot set in West Texas<\/a>, which will premiere in midseason 2027. Pompeo is repped by CAA, Linden Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson.<\/p>\n

Tinker oversees David E. Kelley Prods.\u2019 slate across film, television and new media. He executive produces for the company the upcoming second seasons of Apple TV\u2019s Presumed Innocent and Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles as well as the new Netflix series Myron Bolitar. As a writer, he worked on Kelley\u2019s ABC drama series Big Sky, which 20th TV co-produced with A+E Studios, alongside Chappell. Tinker is repped by CAA and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.<\/p>\n

\n\tChappell is a supervising producer on CBS\u2019 hit drama series Tracker and is writing the feature Bingo, with Robin Wright attached to direct and star. She is repped by CAA, Echo Lake and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.<\/p>\n

\n\tJacobs\u2019 2024 Netflix film His Three Daughters earned him a Gotham Award and Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay. In television, Jacobs served as co-writer and executive producer on Doll & Em for Sky\/HBO and directed both seasons. He is repped by CAA, manager Stuart Manishil at Novo, and attorney Jerry Dasti.<\/p>\n

\n\tGudenkauf was repped in the deal by Lucy Stille at Lucy Stille Literary on behalf of Marianne Merola at Brandt & Hochman Literary agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: In March 2005, one freshman ABC drama, David E. Kelley\u2018s Boston Legal, wrapped its season in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[74455,121557,88,10028,350754,92],"class_list":["post-828084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-david-e-kelley","tag-ellen-pompeo","tag-entertainment","tag-hulu","tag-not-a-sound","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828084","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=828084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}