Jan 30, 2026 1:49pm PT Milo Ventimiglia to Star in Cop Drama Pilot American Blue at HBO Max With David Ayer Directing By Selome Hailu Plus Icon Selome Hailu Latest Milo Ventimiglia to Star in Cop Drama Pilot American Blue at HBO Max With David Ayer Directing 8 minutes ago Macaulay Culkin Mourns Home Alone Mom Catherine OHara: Mama. I Thought We Had Time I Love You 3 hours ago Later-in-Life Rom-Com Produced by Jamie Lee Curtis and Therapist Comedy Starring Jane Lynch and Katey Sagal Score NBC Pilot Orders 19 hours ago See All Manfred Baumann Milo Ventimiglia has been set as the star of American Blue, a cop drama pilot at HBO Max. Additionally, David Ayer has joined the project as director. The official logline reads, Native son Brian Milk Milkovich (Ventimiglia) returns to his hometown of Joliet, Illinois, to rescue a beleaguered police force while seeking redemption of his own. Milk is described as a quietly determined, natural-born leader hoping to find a second chance in the place he left behind. Related Stories Bernie Sanders Claims Larry Ellison Will 'Control' TikTok U.S. Algorithm Thanks to Trump Deal but That's Not Really True Ventimiglia is best known for starring as Jack Pearson in This Is Us, which ran on NBC for six seasons from 2016 to 2022. He is repped by WME, Entertainment 360, Vision PR and McKuin Frankel Whitehead. Ayer, who has directed films including Suicide Squad (2016) and Fury (2014), is repped by WME and David Weber and Tom Collier at Sloane, Offer, We
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