BY JUDY SLOANE

Front Row Features

HOLLYWOOD-Most TV series tackle one law enforcement agency as their main focus, like “FBI” or “Marshals.” But NBC’s new drama “Line of Fire”spotlights a family of agents who cover cases for the Secret Service, Department of Justice, the FBI and U.S. Marshals.

The show stars Peter Krause as Secret Service agent Mike Hollingsworth, Hope Davis as his estranged wife Jane, a U.S. Marshal, and as their children, Kat Cunning as FBI agent Clare, Tommy O’Brien as Micah, with the Secret Service and Taylor Bloom who plays Russ, with the Department of Justice.

The show’s Executive Producers Joshua Safran and Jenna Bush Hager spoke with journalists at Universal Studios about their new series. Safran is also the creator and show-runner – and, of course, Hager is the daughter of former President George W. Bush and is a host of the “Today” show.

“Line of Fire” premieres on Monday, September 21, 10/9c on NBC.

Q: Can you talk about how relatable this show is because of the politics of the day?

Joshua Safran: I think of this show as a little bit of a throwback. We talk about “The West Wing” a lot, but this idea of talking around the world of politics but not being a show about politics.  These people who do [these] jobs do [them] regardless of what state the country is in at any given time or who is in charge. You have to love every person you are working with regardless of a regime change, or whether somebody’s been there a long time, that you might not ideologically see eye to eye with; it’s about the love of the work.

Q: Jenna, how does it feel to be producing a scripted television drama?

Jenna Bush Hager: It makes perfect sense. I have a morning show on NBC five days a week with the “Today” show, which is such an institution.  And [I] hope that the people that watch us in the morning will stay for the evenings. We’ve seen Carson Daly do it with “The Voice.”  We know it works.  But also, Josh has created something that I’m so proud to be part of.

This [series] also about a family. I knew these people.  I had secret servicemen who would leave their family to protect mine.  And so the dynamics of that are very much part of the DNA of what Josh has written, which I think is brilliant and smart.

We talked about the dynamic of this family of people that are putting other people first in many circumstances and therefore, what happens in their own family is complicated.  And I thought that’s something that I witnessed.

Before Pete (Krause) was even cast, when somebody asked me about the show, and this is so weird, I said it reminded me of “Six Feet Under.”  Not in all the ways but in the way that it really is about a family and how their business affects their dynamics.  And “This Is Us” was debuted ten years ago, and I don’t think there’s been a family show like that on television that reminds [me] as much of what we’re doing now with all of this other elements that only really Josh could do.

Q: What can you share about the format of the series beyond the pilot? Is it going to be more episodic or serialized?

Joshua Safran: It’s definitely a mix of the two. All of the shows that I binge are the type of show that I hope this is, which is you can watch an episode and feel like you saw a story ‑‑ a beginning, middle, and end ‑‑ but there still is stuff that will drive you to the next episode. “Good Wife,” they would solve a case but the emotions would still be with the characters and I’d say we carry that over.

You’re going to see one or more of these family members solve a case every week.  That’s very important to all of us, including me.  I love that.  I’ve been very excited to do a procedural forever.  I’ve never done one. I’m really enjoying cases that are realistic and fun and every episode more than one member of the family works together. In the pilot, you watch Clare and Jane work together.  In another episode, it’s Clare and Russ.  It’s Mike and Micah.  It’s fun to bring in all the different people, but there are cases every episode.

Q: In a show, usually there is only one agency involved ‑‑ FBI, U.S. Marshals, Secret Service, but you cover all these different agencies. How much is that a challenge?

Joshua Safran: It’s very hard to just get across what everybody does every episode if you’re working across multiple agencies in a plot line to make sure the audience understands. In real life, these agencies work together all the time, but they all do different things. There are specific jurisdictions for everybody. So sometimes it creates a little bit of a quagmire the writers have to work through with me.