BWW Interview: OPC's Robert Egan On Creative CONNECTIONS Post-Vaccinations
by Gil Kaan - June 05, 2021 Ojai Playwrights Conference (OPC) will be presenting their virtual celebration CONNECTIONS benefiting their 2021 season June 12, 2021. CONNECTIONS will feature new or adapted works by playwrights: Luis Alfaro, Jon Robin Baitz, Father Greg Boyle, Bill Cain, Culture Clash, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Danai ...
AMC Networks Fast-Track Developing New Series STRAIGHT MAN Starring Bob Odenkirk
by Michael Major - April 06, 2022 Aaron Zelman and Paul Lieberstein, who are adapting the project from the novel of the same name by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo, would serve as co-showrunners. Straight Man would be Odenkirk’s third series on AMC, following Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul....
Super Bowl Sunday Was the Biggest Day for AMC+ Since Launch
by Michael Major - February 18, 2022 In its first three days of availability, The Walking Dead episode “No Other Way” has already become the most watched episode of any series on AMC+ to date. This week’s episode also became the #1 season launch for customer acquisition, with double-digit growth from the prior season....
AMC Greenlights INVITATION TO A BONFIRE & DEMASCUS Series
by Michael Major - February 01, 2022 AMC Networks today announced that it has greenlit two new original series for 2023, Demascus and Invitation to a Bonfire. Both shows were developed as part of AMC’s “scripts-to-series” model, which opens writers’ rooms to develop prospective series that, in success, move straight-to-series....
AMC Networks Greenlights ANNE RICE'S MAYFAIR WITCHES
by Michael Major - December 01, 2021 AMC Networks today announced it has greenlit “Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches,” a new series based on the “Lives of the Mayfair Witches” trilogy, for AMC+ and AMC. The second series in an expanding Anne Rice universe, “Mayfair” will follow “Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire” with a late 2022 premie...
AMC Greenlights DARK WINDS Series
by TV News Desk - July 09, 2021 Based on the iconic Leaphorn & Chee book series by Tony Hillerman, Dark Winds is a psychological thriller that follows two Navajo police officers in the 1970s Southwest, as their search for clues in a grisly double murder case forces them to challenge their own spiritual beliefs and come to terms wi...
AMC Networks Greenlights New Series THE DRIVER Starring Giancarlo Esposito
by Michael Major - March 08, 2022 AMC Networks today announced that it had greenlit a new dramatic series for 2023 starring Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), The Driver. Produced by AMC Studios, in association with A+E Studios and Thruline Entertainment, The Driver will have a six-episode first season....
AMC Networks Greenlights New THE WALKING DEAD Spinoff Series
by Michael Major - March 07, 2022 AMC Networks today announced that it has greenlit a new series set in The Walking Dead Universe, starring Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Isle of the Dead envisions the popular Maggie and Negan characters traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland....
Acclaimed Drama HALT & CATCH FIRE Coming to AMC+
by Michael Major - December 10, 2021 “Halt and Catch Fire” captures the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, focusing on four primary characters attempting to innovate against the changing backdrop of technology and Texas’ Silicon Prairie. Starring Lee Pace as Joe MacMillan; Scoot McNairy as Gordon Clark; Kerry Bishé as Donna Clark; ...
John Calvin Abney Announces New LP SAFE PASSAGE Due Out 9/27
by Tori Hartshorn - July 12, 2019 John Calvin Abney is set to return with a self-produced new LP Safe Passage via Black Mesa Records on September 27, 2019. It's the follow-up to 2018's Coyote, which Rolling Stone Country called “dreamy folk with a good balance of sadness and sunshine.” From the start of Safe Passage's gentle opener,... |