India, Aug. 6 -- NBC is expanding its primetime drama slate this fall with Line of Fire, a new action thriller that blends family drama with high-stakes Secret Service operations.

It is created by television writer and producer Josh Safran, whose previous credits include Gossip Girl and Quantico.

NBC Today Host and Line of Fire's executive producer Jenna Bush Hager characterized the new NBC show as a mystery that resembles a hybrid of "Scandal and Six Feet Under."

According to NBC's official synopsis, the series centres on "a family of law enforcement agents" working across the FBI, the US Marshals, the Secret Service and the Department of Justice.

The show starts with a sting of the family's latest investigation, which begins as a ro...