Have no fear! You will still get your fix of local homeboy Michael Chiklis.

The actor, who was born in Lowell and raised in Andover, just wrapped FX cop drama "The Sheild." He is now working on a new drama about schemes and dreams.

No Chiklis didn’t lose any money in the escalating Bernard Madoff scandal. But he did fall victim to another Ponzi scheme early this year. And now, sadder but wiser, he’s developing a TV series fueled by his experience.

Chiklis has been gathering material from others also hurt by investor scams, “and if I had hair, it’d curl,” says the actor.