E! has given Elizabeth Hurley a starring role in its scripted drama pilot The Royals.
From One Tree Hill executive producers Mark Schwahn, Brian Robbins and Joe Davola, the prospective Hamlet-esque series is described as a contemporary drama centering on a fictional royal family.
The supermodel-turned-actress plays the “sexy, devious and conflicted” Queen Helena who’s struggling with the death of her oldest son and looking to halt a relationship between her middle son and his American girlfriend.
Hurley’s TV credits include Gossip Girl and NBC’s ill-fated Wonder Woman reboot.
