Disney has announced that FX has extended its partnership with The New York Times by ordering additional documentary films under The New York Times Presents banner. The New York Times Presents features a series of standalone documentary films powered by the unparalleled journalism and insight of journalists at The New York Times, bringing viewers close […]
Disney’s FX has ordered a new pilot called “Kindred”, which is being directed and executive produced by Janicza Bravo, who has previously directed the film “Zola”. This series is an adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s influential novel and will star Mallori Johnson. “Kindred” is the first science fiction novel written by a black woman and […]
During last years Investor Day event, a brand new series was announced based on the 20th Century Studios “Alien” franchise. Since that event, there hasn’t been much news on the first television series based on the franchise. FX will be making the series for Hulu in the United States and for Star on Disney+ internationally. […]
New casting details on the upcoming FX limited series “Shōgun” have recently been revealed by Deadline, who are reporting that Hiroyuki Sanada (The Twilight Samurai) and Cosmo Jarvis (Lady Macbeth) will be playing two of the three leads in the show, Yoshii Toranaga and John Blackthorne. During December’s Investor Day event, Disney revealed the series […]
Disney’s FX has cased Christina Jackson in the upcoming pilot that is based on the Sam Greenlee novel “The Spook Who Sat by the Door”, where she will play Joy Freeman, an up-and-coming attorney committed to making a difference in her community. This follows the recent news that Y’lan Noel has been cast in the […]
Disney’s FX has cast Y’lan Noel as the lead in a pilot for “The Spook Who Sat by the Door”, which is a drama based on Sam Greenlee’s spy novel of the same name. “The Spook Who Sat by the Door” is a fictional story of Dan Freeman (played by Y’lan Noel), who has just […]
Disney’s FX has ordered a pilot of a new show called “Kindred”, which is an adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s novel. The FX adaptation focuses on Dana, a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles, ready to claim a future that, for once, […]
Disney’s FX has ordered a new pilot called “The Spook Who Sat By the Door” which is based on Sam Greenlee’s spy novel, that looks at the fictional story of Dan Freeman, the first African American CIA officer hired by the agency in the late 1960s. The story chronicles the quest of Freeman, who was […]
Disney’s FX has brought in “Queen’s Gambit” co-creator, director and showrunner Scott Frank to do a new adaptation of Mary Doria Russell’s “The Sparrow”. This new limited series is going to be directed by Johan Renck, who has previously worked on “Chernobyl” and “Breaking Bad”, they will both be executive producers on the series […]
Details on this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) event have been announced and two Disney shows will be hosting panels at the virtual event, which is taking place from March 16th to the 20th. FX’s Dave and National Geographic’s Genius: Aretha will both hosting virtual panels. Inside GENIUS: ARETHA, the Story of the Queen of […]
Disney has announced that FX has ordered a full season of Reservation Dogs, a new half-hour comedy series from Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi. The series will consist of 8 episodes and it will be released in 2021 on Hulu in the US and on Disney+ internationally. Reservation Dogs follows four Native teenagers in […]
FX Chairman John Landgraf announced a new series called “Shōgun” at this week’s Disney Investor Day. FX is embarking on one of the most sweeping, sophisticated and adult series FX has ever created—a retelling of James Clavell’s beloved epic saga, Shōgun, set within the riveting and real Game of Thrones that was feudal Japan. It […]
FX Chairman John Landgraf announced details on a new series called “Platform” at this week’s Disney Investor Day. Platform, from BJ Novak, an actor and award-winning writer of “The Office,” is a half-hour anthological television series from FX that uses the boldest issues of our times as a jumping-off point to tell singular, character-driven stories […]
Earlier this week at the Walt Disney Companies Investor Day event, FX Chairman John Landgraf revealed a new drama series, Y: The Last Man, which is based on DC Comics’ acclaimed series of the same name by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. Y: The Last Man traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic […]
At the Walt Disney Companies Investor Day event earlier this week, FX Chairman John Landgraf announced that they are moving quickly to bring audiences the first television series based on one of the greatest science-fiction horror classics ever made: “Alien.” The new Alien series will be helmed by Fargo and Legion’s Noah Hawley stepping into […]