Overview
- Netflix officially greenlit an eight-episode drama titled Kennedy from Netflix and Chernin Entertainment, centered on the American political family.
- Kicked off in the 1930s, Season 1 follows the rise of Joe and Rose Kennedy and their nine children, with the logline highlighting a young Jack struggling to emerge from his older brother’s shadow.
- The series is adapted from Fredrik Logevall’s JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956, signaling a focus on the family’s formative years before the presidency.
- Sam Shaw serves as showrunner and executive producer, Thomas Vinterberg will direct and executive produce, and the producing team includes Eric Roth along with Chernin’s Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and Kaitlin Dahill.
- Beyond Fassbender, no principal casting or release date has been announced, and reported early-2026 production timing has not been confirmed by Netflix; coverage frames the project as a U.S. counterpart to The Crown, separate from Ryan Murphy’s FX series about JFK Jr.