Hauppauge's Lori Loughlin returns to series TV in Prime Video police drama 'On Call'

Hauppauge-raised Lori Loughlin will co-star in an upcoming police drama produced by "Law & Order" impresario Dick Wolf, marking the actor’s return to a series role after serving a two-month sentence for her part in the 2019 college-admissions bribery case.

The streaming service Prime Video announced Wednesday that Loughlin, 60, would play Lieutenant Bishop in "On Call," a half-hour drama following Long Beach, California, police rookie Alex Diaz (Brandon Larracuente) and veteran officer Traci Harmon (Troian Bellisario). Also starring are Eriq La Salle ("ER"), who also serves as an executive producer and directed multiple episodes, and Rich Ting.

The half-hour series incorporates a mixture of bodycam, dash-camera and cellphone footage to create a cinema verité effect, the streamer said.

Cocreated by Tim Walsh and Elliot Wolf, "On Call" is Wolf Entertainment’s first scripted streaming series. All eight episodes are scheduled to premiere January 9.

"Buckle up, there’s a new cop drama on the block, and this one features a few familiar faces!" read a joint Instagram post by Wolf Entertainment and other entities. Loughlin, who has no social media, has not commented publicly.

The Hauppauge High School graduate, who was born in Queens but moved with her family to Long Island when a year old, is best known as Aunt Becky on "Full House" (ABC 1987-95) and "Fuller House," its 2016-20 Netflix sequel series. She went on to star in The WB’s "Summerland," which she cocreated; ABC's "Hudson Street" with Tony Danza,; and The CW's "90210," as well as several TV-movies including the "Garage Sale Mystery" franchise.

Loughlin's legal issues led producers of her Hallmark Channel series "When Calls the Heart” to remove her from the show in 2019. She has since made a comeback, reprising her role from that show in the two-episode arc of the Great American Family spinoff "When Hope Calls" in 2021, and starring in that cable network’s telefilms "Fall Into Winter" and "Blessings of Christmas" in 2023. She good-naturedly spoofed herself in an episode of HBO’s "Curb Your Enthusiasm" this year.

In April, in Loughlin’s first major interview since her travails, she told First for Women magazine, "Every day we’re met with different obstacles, but it’s all in how you approach things. For me, it’s just persevering and as an actress, I hear ‘no’ a lot, so I just have to be myself and persevere and try not to let in negativity."

She added, "My advice is to just keep moving forward. Everyone has good times and bad times. That’s life. I think you just have to pick yourself up. Nobody said life was going to be a breeze. There’s beauty in life, but there’s also hardship in life."