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Season 3 of Atlanta to Premiere on March 24th
At long last, FX has set a premiere date for Season 3 of Atlanta. After a three-year hiatus, Donald Glover’s acclaimed series will return with a two-episode season premiere on Thursday, March 24th at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. According to a logline provided by FX, Season 3 finds Earn (Glover), “Paper Boi” (Brian Tyree Henry), Darius (LaKeith Stanfield) and Van (Zazie Beetz) in the midst of a successful European tour, “as the group navigates their new surroundings as outsiders, and struggle to adjust to the newfound success they had aspired to.” The full season runs 10 episodes, and each episode will be available to stream on Hulu the day after its initial broadcast premiere on FX. Advertisement Related Video A new teaser trailer for Atlanta Season 3 will premiere on Christmas Day during ESPN and A...
What We Do in the Shadows Season 3 Trailer Released, Season 4 Renewal Confirmed: Watch
Everyone’s favorite undead Staten Island crew are taking over the Vampiric Council — and FX. The network has not only revealed the first full trailer for What We Do in the Shadows Season 3, but renewed the hit comedy-horror series for a fourth season. “Fans can’t seem to get enough of What We Do in the Shadows and FX is ready to feed that appetite by setting up the series for a fourth season,” Nick Grad, FX’s president of original programming, said during the network’s Television Critics Association press event (via The Hollywood Reporter). “Our thanks to the extraordinary job by the creative team, cast, and crew who keep making a great show better each season.” For Season 3, that continued success has led Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) to ri...
Atlanta Season 3 to Premiere in “First Half of 2022” on FX
More than three years ago, the second season of Atlanta aired on FX to more praise from fans and accolades from critics. Of course, a lot has happened since then, including a global pandemic, but it looks like the beloved TV series will finally return after taking quite a long break. According to FX chief John Landgraf, Season 3 of Atlanta is set to premiere in the “first half of 2022” — for real this time. While answering questions at the virtual Television Critics Association press tour today, Landgraf did not specify which month, exactly, the next season of Donald Glover’s hit show will kick off. However, he did say that filming on Season 3 of Atlanta was recently completed after being held up by the pandemic. With the episodes now in post-production, it bodes well for the supposed ...
FX’s Reservation Dogs Is a Sweetly Incisive Series About Native American Life: Review
The Pitch: When we first meet the quote-unquote “Reservation Dogs,” a tight-knit gang of four Indigenous teens growing up in northeast Oklahoma, they’re making off with a stolen spicy chip delivery truck. It’s a risky, exciting gamble — they relish the danger of it more than the profit potential, right down to not wearing seatbelts — that should take them closer to their goal: saving up enough money to move away to California. The rez, they posit, killed their close friend Daniel a year ago, and they want to take his spirit with them when they finally escape. But amid the petty crimes and odd jobs they’ll take to scare up the scratch to leave, they’ll navigate the myriad pains everyone feels growing up, with the specific concerns and anxieties of Native American life — generational tr...
Trailer for Lil Dicky’s Dave Season 2 Teases Cameos from Doja Cat, Rae Sremmurd, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-04T01:36:03+00:00“>June 3, 2021 | 9:36pm ET Lil Dicky’s character may not have finished an album in the trailer for Season 2 of Dave, but he does meet a wide variety of interesting people, including characters played by Doja Cat, Rae Sremmurd, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kendall Jenner, Hailey Baldwin Bieber, and more. The fictionalized version of David “Lil Dicky” Burd ended Season 1 with a record deal, but by Season 2 the record itself is no closer to completion. Despite creating a document called “Song Ideas”, Dave is struggling creatively. As he explains, he’s “got a whole lot of other things going on: socially, professionally, borderline sexually.” Still, being a rapper w...
FX Sets Premiere Date for Dave Season 2, Lil Nas X, Doja Cat, and J Balvin to Guest Star
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-19T19:11:15+00:00“>April 19, 2021 | 3:11pm ET Dave, the surreal comedy series that fictionalizes the life of and is led by rapper Lil Dicky, was renewed for a second season last year after a successful first run. Now, FX has set the premiere date for the new season and has announced an extensive list of guest stars, including Lil Nas X, Doja Cat, and J Balvin. Season 2 of Dave will premiere on June 16th at 10:00 p.m. EST on FX. As was the case with its initial season, the show will be available to stream the following day through Hulu as well. The premiere will include the first two episodes of Dave and new episodes will be available each subsequent week afterwards. Lil Dicky tap...
Y’Lan Noel Cast As Lead In ‘The Spook Who Sat By The Door’ Pilot For FX
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jim Spellman / Getty The Spook Who Sat By The Door was a novel released in 1969 and made into a film in 1973, which centers on the fictional tale of the CIA’s first Black officer. A pilot was announced to be coming soon to FX and now, the potential series has cast its lead in Y’Lan Noel. The original The Spook Who Sat By The Door story came to the masses in 1969 via the late Sam Greenlee. The book was profound for its time and the 1973 film has retained classic status among viewers for its innovative take on a Black person’s experience in a world where they are an exception and not the rule. According to the good folks at Deadline, Noel, who some may remember from his role as Daniel on Issa Rae’s hit HBO show Insecure, will play the role of Dan Freeman, a...
Danny Boyle Shares First Look at Sex Pistols TV Series
Louis Partridge as bassist Sid Vicious, Anson Boon as singer John Lydon, Jacob Slater as drummer Paul Cook and Toby Wallace as guitarist Steve Jones, photo by Miya Mizuno for FX Danny Boyle has shared the first look at his upcoming TV series about Sex Pistols, which is slated to premiere on FX. Entitled Pistol, the six-episode limited series is based on the 2017 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol by Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. As such, the show will center around Jones’ journey from his West London council estates home to the iconic Sex boutique owned by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, an epicenter of early punk culture. From there, Boyle will trace the relatively short but furious rise and fall of Sex Pistols. Toby Wallace (Babyteeth) will play Jones, ...
Donald Glover Ditches FX For Amazon Overall Deal, Don’t Worry Seasons 3 & 4 of ‘Atlanta’ Still Happening
Source: Laurent KOFFEL / Getty Donald Glover has just secured an even bigger bag. We previously reported that the multi-talented actor was teaming up with Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge to remake the 2005 film, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, exclusively for Amazon Prime. THR is now exclusively reporting that film is part of a bigger deal between Donald and Amazon. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Donald is exiting his deal with the Disney-owned FX Network for much more greener pastures in the form of an eight-figure overall deal with the network. According to the report, Donald will not only be bringing his immeasurable talents to the network. He will also be getting his own content channel that will ” spotlight Glover’s work and other curated content on Amazon’s Prime Video hub.” That’s not a...
FX’s Hip Hop Uncovered Is a Powerful Watch: Review
The Pitch: Far too often, the history of hip-hop is condensed to make its origins more palatable for younger fans. Black folks in New York — downtrodden by systems that perpetuated poverty, racism, and police brutality — pioneered a form of creative expression meant to give a platform to their pain. However, FX’s Hip Hop Uncovered explores the genre’s complexity. More importantly, it analyzes rap music in a sociopolitical context. From slavery to the destruction of Black Wall Street to the war on drugs to the Black Lives Matter movement, Hip Hop Uncovered reminds viewers of the brutal American history that has always worked to violate and abuse Black people. It also demystifies some of rap’s most prominent figures who were pivotal in the careers of artists like Nipsey Hussle, Nicki Minaj, ...
Lee Daniels Pilot For ‘The Spook Who Sat By The Door’ Coming To FX
Source: ANGELA WEISS / Getty The Spook Who Sat By The Door was a spy thriller novel released in 1969 centered on the fictional tale of the CIA’s first Black agent. By way of a new report, Lee Daniels has been cleared by the FX network to produce a pilot for a potential series based on the novel and 1973 film of the same name. Deadline reports that Daniels has been named as an executive producer for FX’s adaptation of late author Sam Greenlee’s novel that focuses on the trials and rise of agent Dan Freeman. Joining Daniels in the effort is The Twilight Zone and The First Purge director Gerard McMurray, and Leigh Dana Jackson, who worked on Foundation and Raising Dion will serve as the pilot’s lead writer. A film was released in 1973 directed by the late Ivan Dixon and adapted from a screenp...
The Evolution of Ted Danson, Mr. Mayor of Television
If it feels like Ted Danson has always been on our television screens, well, it’s because that’s more or less true. He’s been around since at least the mid-1970s, cropping up in one long-running sitcom after another, buoying that with everything from prestige dramas to procedurals to a brief stint as a movie star in the ’90s (Three Men and a Baby, anyone?) He’s one of the hardest-working, and most ubiquitous, people in show business, cultivating a very specific persona that has itself morphed and changed as Danson’s hair has turned from brown to gray. Now, fresh off a four-year stint on the critically-acclaimed The Good Place, Danson finds himself as yet another bumbling man of power in a crisp suit, although a bit less openly demonic this time: Mayor Neil Bremer on NBC’s latest show, ...
