Monarch — and one of Nashville's top music talent managers is involved. According to a press release, Jason Owen will join Gail Berman and Hend Baghdady as executive producers on the project alongside series creator Melissa London Hilfers and showrunner Michael Rauch. Fox Entertainment retains one hundred percent ownership in Monarch, which joins Our Kind of People in becoming the first two shows in Fox history to bypass a pilot order. The project advanced directly to a writer's room commitment before the network ordered it to series. Deadline reported that Fox Entertainment had opened a writer's room on the series in August of 2020, when it was still operating under the working title of