What To Know
- Peter Krause returns to TV and a family drama this fall with Line of Fire.
- Krause explains why he was drawn to the new series.
Peter Krause returns to a family drama 11 years after Parenthood ended this fall. And so when TV Insider caught up with him (alongside Sarah Ramos) to look back on Parenthood at the ATX TV Festival at the end of May, we had to ask him about Line of Fire.
“Also a family show,” he said. “It is just that the family members are all different members of federal agencies. The character I portray is in the Secret Service. Hope Davis, my wife, is a federal marshal. Our daughter is in the FBI. I have another son in the Secret Service who may or may not be having an affair with the president’s daughter. And then my other son is in the DOJ. But we have issues with each other as well.”
This will be Krause’s first TV role since he left 9-1-1 in 2025 when his character, Captain Bobby Nash, tragically died.
For the actor, the appeal was “a very, very tight script” by Josh Safran. “There were a lot of twists and turns. I didn’t see a lot of the things coming,” he shared. “And it was a different character for me to get to play.”
Line of Fire follows “a family of law enforcement agents [that] bridges personal differences and crosses professional boundaries as they tackle cases for the FBI, US Marshals, Secret Service, and Department of Justice,” according to NBC. “After a seemingly cut-and-dry case turns into a deadly conspiracy, they must use the expertise from a lifetime of protecting civilians and politicians to protect one another and bring the killer to justice … even if it means betraying their sworn code.”
In addition to Krause and Davis, it stars Kat Cunning, Tommy O’Brien, Taylor Bloom, and Charlie Barnett.
9-1-1 certainly has a family element to it, and Krause, in addition to Parenthood, starred on Six Feet Under. So, what is it about the family drama genre that he enjoys?
“I think it has to do with relationships between people, and then over time, you get to develop working relationships with people. I think that the work gets better because you get to know them,” he explained. “I think that what’s fun about Parenthood or about other family shows that existed on Six Feet Under, too, is that you get to push each other’s buttons.”
He continued, “Because you have these familial relationships of familiarity breeds contempt, right? I had a therapist who once said, because I was talking about my dad, ‘You know why your parents can push your button so well?’ And he said, ‘Because they installed it.’ But that is the fun of these kinds of shows is because then you can be open and be irritated and all that and feel sorry.”
Line of Fire, Series Premiere, Fall 2026, Mondays, 10/9c, NBC
—Reporting by Avery Thompson
