Ariana Madix Will Lead Peacock’s Sci-Fi Drama ‘Future Housewives’

Ariana Madix is moving deeper into scripted television with Future Housewives, a science-fiction drama now in development at Peacock. The Love Island USA host is attached to star and executive-produce, giving the project a performer whose reality-TV history directly connects to its satirical premise.

The series imagines New Beverly Hills as a decadent asteroid colony where wealthy socialites balance engineered beauty treatments, rivalries and interplanetary scandals. Madix will play a hopeful outsider whose arrival disrupts that insulated world and exposes how far its residents have drifted from a changing society.

Reality television gets a space-age rewrite

The setup clearly borrows the language and social dynamics of reality franchises, but it places them inside a futuristic drama rather than an unscripted format. That combination allows Future Housewives to explore status, image and excess through a world in which even beauty and scandal can be technologically enhanced.

Brannon Braga is writing and executive-producing the project. His long science-fiction résumé includes Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise and The Orville. Seth MacFarlane and Erica Huggins are also executive producers through Fuzzy Door, with Jaron Lanier serving as a co-executive producer. Universal Global Television is the studio.

A new chapter for Madix

Madix became a household name during her run on Vanderpump Rules before taking over as host of Love Island USA. She has since expanded into acting with appearances on St. Denis Medical and Will Trent, while her Broadway work has included Chicago and Just in Time.

Future Housewives is also the first scripted project from Over Fences, the production company Madix recently launched. That makes her role broader than an on-screen casting move: she is helping shape the project as both a star and producer.

Peacock has not announced a premiere date, additional cast members or a series order. For now, the show remains in development, but its combination of reality-TV satire, experienced genre producers and Madix’s crossover appeal gives it a sharply defined identity at an early stage.