Oscar nominee Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting), Jeffery Donovan (Fargo), and Natacha Karam (9-1-1: Lone Star) will star in Fox’s The Faithful. Described as a biblical event series, The Faithful will premiere on Sunday, March 22, 2026 at 8pm ET/PT. Fox plans on airing two-hour installments over three consecutive weeks, with the finale airing on Easter Sunday.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation‘s Danny Cannon is on board to direct and executive produce the premiere. Rene Echevarria, Carol Mendelsohn, and Julie Weitz will also serve as executive producers. Echevarria wrote the pilot and guides the series as showrunner.
Filming will take place this summer in Rome and Matera, Italy.
“This landmark drama series is based on the best-selling book of all time, the Bible, and showcases a faithful dramatization of the Book of Genesis as told through the eyes of the courageous and passionate, yet flawed, women whose descendants would shape the future of faith as we know it today. Dimensional, dramatic, intimate, even surprising, The Faithful is about discovering and losing love, the challenges of marriage, the joys and heartbreak of children, confronting temptation, and finding faith,” reads Fox’s synopsis. “Episodes of The Faithful will be told through the lens of five of The Old Testament’s most legendary women: Sarah and her servant Hagar, Sarah’s great-niece Rebekah, and Rebekah’s nieces, sisters Leah and Rachel.”
The description continues, “In the premiere installment, Sarah (Driver) feels incomplete without the child that has been promised to her and her husband, Abraham (Donovan), by God. After braving isolation, famine, the ire of Pharaoh, and several more years of barrenness, she resorts to her own plan to bring a child into the world involving her maidservant Hagar (Karam) and Abraham. However, jealousy soon sets in after Hagar gives birth to Ishmael (from whose lineage the Islamic religion traces its roots). Then a miracle happens… And personal freedoms are at odds with long-held grievances and shattered love.”
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