Hulu has given Ellen Pompeo a new starring turn in the ellen pompeo next tv role business: a pilot order for Chicks, a family dramedy set in old Boston and headed to production in New York in September. The move keeps Pompeo in the Disney orbit while adding a fresh lead role to a schedule already tied to Grey’s Anatomy.
Pompeo and Robbins
Pompeo will star in Chicks and executive produce the pilot alongside Katie Robbins and Laura Holstein. Robbins wrote the pilot, and the project was developed specifically for Pompeo from an original idea Robbins brought in after conversations the two had on the set of Good American Family.
Good American Family premiered last March and drew 6.3 million views in its first six days on Hulu. That gives Hulu a second Pompeo-led project with a built-in working relationship behind it, and it explains why the streamer is willing to keep giving her material that can travel from one platform corner to another.
Old Boston, new frauds
Chicks follows Chickie and Doreen, two estranged half-sisters trying to get by when their wise guy dad unexpectedly kicks the bucket. Their only inheritance is a legacy of two-bit crime, which pushes them into increasingly audacious frauds as the pair’s odd-couple bond grows.
The Boston setting matters less as wallpaper than as a pressure point: the story is set in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods of old Boston, a backdrop that gives Robbins’s premise a built-in conflict between the old economy and the new one. For Hulu, that is a cleaner pitch than a broad family comedy, and it gives Pompeo a role with more edge than a standard return to network familiarity.
Grey’s Anatomy still running
Pompeo is still tied to Grey’s Anatomy, where the series is heading into its 23rd season on ABC and she continues to recur and narrate as Meredith Grey. She also remains an executive producer on the drama and on its upcoming West Texas spinoff, which is set to premiere in midseason 2027.
That combination makes Chicks the practical next step rather than a clean break. Pompeo is not leaving the franchise that made her name; she is widening her TV footprint with a pilot built around her, and if Hulu likes the footage, the studio already has a lead actor whose presence has helped a six-day streaming launch clear 6.3 million views before.
