NBC is giving LINE OF FIRE more room to untangle the Hollingsworth family’s secrets, expanding its first season from 13 episodes to 18.
“I think for this show, given the storytelling, 18 feels the sweet spot, and also with what our Monday night schedule looks like and where the opportunities are,” NBC and Peacock Scripted Content President Lisa Katz told Deadline on October 12, before the additional episodes were confirmed.
That goal has now become an order. NBC announced the five-episode extension on Oct. 22, giving viewers more time with the family drama and political thriller into 2027.
The expansion concerns Season 1, so viewers should not confuse it with a second-season renewal.
The appeal is a mix of casework and family complications. Actor Peter Krause plays Secret Service agent Mike Hollingsworth, while actress Hope Davis plays US Marshal Jane Hollingsworth; their children work across the FBI, Department of Justice and Secret Service.
Actors Kat Cunning, Taylor Bloom and Tommy O’Brien play Clare, Russ and Micah, respectively. In this household, a difficult workday does not necessarily stay at the office, and professional boundaries can collide with personal loyalties.
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NBCUniversal’s official series description sets up a seemingly straightforward case that becomes a deadly conspiracy. The family must draw on its experience protecting other people to protect one another, even as the investigation threatens the code they have sworn to uphold.
The story also has a connection to executive producer Jenna Bush Hager’s experience as the daughter of former President George W. Bush. Her years with Secret Service protection helped shape the series’ interest in what agents’ work means for their own families.
“I had Secret Servicemen who would leave their family to protect mine,” Hager said at NBCUniversal’s Backlot Pass event on Aug. 10, according to NBC’s cast introduction.
That observation gives the premise a personal question beneath the mystery: what does protecting someone else require of the people waiting at home? It also helps explain why the series combines federal investigations with a family story rather than treating the agents as people who exist only on the job.
Katz highlighted that combination in her Oct. 12 interview, pointing to the cases, family drama and mystery as different ways for viewers to enter the story. Her comments described the network’s enthusiasm before the full order, not a new reaction issued with the announcement.
For viewers keeping up week to week, the schedule remains straightforward: new episodes air Mondays at 10 p.m. ET on NBC and stream the next day on Peacock. NBC lists the sixth episode, CABIN PRESSURE, for Monday, October 26, with Sam Waterston and Tyler Posey returning as guest stars.
More episodes mean more opportunities to follow the Hollingsworths’ choices and their consequences. The pickup is a vote of confidence in that unfolding story, not a promise that the family’s problems will get any easier.
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