Fox developing DEA drama from Deputy team, based on the DEA agent who hunted El Chapo

Variety

Deputy executive producers David Ayer and Chris Long have begun work on DEA, which has received a script commitment, ahead of Deputy's midseason debut. According to Variety, DEA is "described as an an 'operation of the week' show as Jack Riley and his DEA Task Force hunt down a 'big bad' drug kingpin each season, dismantling dangerous drug organizations in major cities across the U.S. that local law enforcement cannot handle themselves. The real Riley is a retired top DEA agent himself who who led the hunt for notorious drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán. Riley will serve as a consulting producer on the series along with Paul Soltaroff, a journalist and expert on the war on drugs."