The Oscar-winning film-maker Martin Scorsese is teaming up with Fox News for a new docuseries.

The director, who recently scored his 16th Oscar nomination for Killers of the Flower Moon, is set to host and produce a series for the conservative channel’s streaming service Fox Nation.

Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints will look at the life of a different saint each episode including Joan of Arc, John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene.

“I’ve lived with the stories of the saints for most of my life, thinking about their words and actions, imagining the worlds they inhabited, the choices they faced, the examples they set,” Scorsese said in a statement.

“These are stories of eight very different men and women, each of them living through vastly different periods of history and struggling to follow the way of love revealed to them and to us by Jesus’ words in the gospels. I’m so excited that this project is underway, and that I’m working with so many trusted and talented collaborators.”

Fox News Media’s chief digital and marketing officer, Jason Klarman, said it was “an honour” to welcome Scorsese to the platform.

The series will be directed by Elizabeth Chomko who directed the 2018 Hilary Swank drama What They Had.

Fox Nation launched in 2018 and has been the home to a Roseanne Barr comedy special called Cancel This!, the Patriot Awards, Piers Morgan Uncensored and Tomi Lahren is Fearless.

The service has also been attracting other Hollywood names of late, including Kevin Costner with a Yellowstone documentary and Kelsey Grammer with a series of historical documentaries.

Scorsese is also planning to make an 80-minute theatrical film about Jesus to “take away the negative onus of what has been associated with organised religion”. The film will be co-written by Kent Jones, who is also the writer of his new Fox series.

The first part of the series will launch in November.