Patricia Heaton is returning to television in a brand new legal drama called Public Interest — playing Ingrid Erickson, an attorney unexpectedly thrust into the top leadership role of a nonprofit public interest law firm after its longtime president suffers a sudden heart attack — leading an unconventional team that fights for everyday people facing impossible odds.

She is executive producing alongside director David Barrett and bringing Richard Schiff from The West Wing and James Wolk from Mad Men with her — assembling the kind of ensemble that immediately tells you she is not interested in doing anything halfway. The same woman who broke down weeping alone in her kitchen reading the Bible, who went viral with a post reaching over 2 million people, who honored her TV mom Linda Lavin with words that stopped everyone cold — is now playing a woman thrust unexpectedly into leadership who fights for people nobody else will fight for. At 68 Patricia Heaton is not winding down. She is just getting started.