Hillary Clinton developing new drama, 'The Woman's Hour,' for CW

Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY
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Hillary Clinton has her eyes on the small screen once again.

The former first lady and secretary of state is developing a new anthology drama for CW, "The Woman's Hour." The prospective first season is based on Elaine Weiss' best-selling 2018 nonfiction book "The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote," and will focus on the fight to ratify the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote and was signed into law in 1920.

"Each season of 'The Woman's Hour' will celebrate those who changed history and have strong contemporary reverberations, appealing to today’s rising tide of young, politically active audiences," a press release states.

Clinton and Weiss will executive produce along with Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and the show will be overseen by writer/producer Angelina Burnett ("Halt and Catch Fire").

"Rights for the book were optioned by Amblin Television in 2018, after Clinton brought the project to long-time supporter and Amblin Chairman Steven Spielberg," the release says. "Clinton first discovered the book after Weiss made it her mission to get the novel to the former Secretary of State, after realizing the striking parallels between the women’s suffrage movement and the 2016 presidential election between Clinton and Donald Trump."

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Earlier this week, Clinton, 72, launched her first podcast, "You and Me Both with Hillary Clinton," and welcomed Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris in Thursday's bonus episode. And last spring, she was the subject of four-part Hulu docuseries "Hillary," a warts-and-all look at her political career and personal life leading up to the 2016 election.

When she was approached about the documentary by filmmaker Nanette Burstein, "I thought, 'Well, why not?' " Clinton told USA TODAY in March. "People make up stuff about me all the time. Maybe this is an opportunity not only to talk about my life but to place it within the flow of history."

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