July 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Donal Logue has been cast to star in Terriers, FX’s comedic hourlong pilot from Shawn Ryan and writer Ted Griffin. The project, from Fox21, centers on Hank (Logue), an ex-cop who partners with his best friend to launch a P.I. business where the duo, both with maturity issues, solve crimes while trying to avoid danger and responsibility. Hank is an affable, talkative fellow who’s not always the best liar but is adept at adopting different personas to find out information. He is alarmed by what he perceives as signs of his encroaching senility.
Griffin wrote the script for Terriers and is executive producing with Ryan.
July 29th, 2009 | 0 Comments
FX has picked up Lawman to series, previously known as Fire in the Hole. Written by Graham Yost, the show is based on the Leonard character Raylan Givens featured in his short story Fire in the Hole. Timothy Olyphant stars as U.S. Marshal Givens, a modern-day 19th-century-style lawman enforcing his brand of justice in a way that puts a target on his back with criminals and places him at odds with his bosses in the Marshal service. Lawman will start production on its series order this fall in Southern California for a spring 2010 premiere.
July 23rd, 2009 | 0 Comments
In Treatment executive producer/showrunner Warren Leight has joined FX’s drama Lights Out. Leight will serve as an executive producer and showrunner alongside creator Justin Zackham if the pilot, executive produced by Phillip Noyce, is picked up to series. With Leight aboard, that now appears likely. Fox TV Studios/FX Productions’ Lights Out centers on Patrick “Lights” Leary (Holt McCallany), an aging former heavyweight boxing champion who struggles to find his identity and support his wife and three daughters after his fighting days are over.
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July 15th, 2009 | 0 Comments
FX has ordered The League, a semiscripted comedy pilot from Curb Your Enthusiasm executive producer/director Jeff Schaffer. The show centers on a fantasy football league and tackles issues of marriage, friendship, parenting and love in suburbia. Schaffer and his wife Jackie Marcus Schaffer, for whom fantasy football is a big part of their lives and marriage, are executive producing the pilot, which is shooting. Schaffer is directing.
In addition to Mark Duplass, the show’s cast includes Steve Rannazzisi, Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer, Katie Aselton, Jon Lajoie and Alina Foley, daughter of actor Dave Foley. Leslie Bibb is on board as a guest star.
July 13th, 2009 | 0 Comments
FX has greenlighted Archer. The animated comedy series from Adam Reed has received a six-episode order for a launch this fall. The show is set at ISIS, an international spy agency where global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and screw each other.
Archer features the voices of Jon Benjamin as suave master spy Sterling Archer, whose less-than-masculine code name is “Duchess”. Jessica Walter voices Malory, his domineering mother and boss. The other characters include: Aisha Tyler as his ex-girlfriend Agent Lana Kane; Chris Parnell as ISIS comptroller and Lana’s new love interest Cyril Figgis; and Judy Greer as Malory’s lovesick secretary Cheryl.
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June 30th, 2009 | 5 Comments
FX has set its fall schedule with the return of three of its hit original series kicking off with the sophomore season of the drama Sons of Anarchy on September 8, followed by the comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia on September 17, and season six of nip/tuck which begins this October. FX also has plans to launch a new original comedy series this fall to pair with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
In addition to the return of original series, this fall the network features a slate of blockbuster feature film premieres including Ghost Rider, Fantastic Four & The Silver Surfer, Spiderman 3, and Live Free or Die Hard.
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