FX will keep TV peaking in 2022 with several new star-studded shows
FX Chairman John Landgraf provided an update on the cable network's upcoming slate at the 2022 TCA winter press tour.
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It’s a good day to be an FX fan. The cable network’s CEO John Landgraf provided an update on several upcoming projects during the Television Critics Association’s (TCA) 2022 winter press tour. FX is currently home to dramas like Snowfall, American Crime Story, and comedies like What We Do In The Shadows and Dave. It’s now ramping up its slate of new shows for 2022 and beyond to fully embrace the Peak TV era.
Part of the reason for the push is the fact that FX, FXX, and National Geographic, among other cable channels, bled into Disney’s portfolio when the House Of Mouse acquired 21st Century Fox in 2017. The deal included a stake in Hulu, and is why FX has set up a hub on the streaming platform as well. Some of its original programming, like Reservation Dogs and Mrs. America, debuted on FX on Hulu to boost that partnership.
Landgraf said during the TCA panel that most of FX’s upcoming shows will continue to stream in a similar manner with a few exceptions. “Roughly speaking, if you look across the next couple of years, we’re at par and sustaining the linear channel shows and output, and then we’re radically ramping up the number of new shows on streaming with FX on Hulu,” he said.
“Where there’s a lot of hunger for branded FX content is on Hulu. That’s great, that’s a new hungry mouth to feed,” Landgraf continued, adding that he hopes they can contribute to Disney’s growing global streamers like Disney+. With two of its shows confirmed to end this year—Better Things and Atlanta—Landgraf provided an update on new original programming at the TCA executive session.
First up is Under The Banner Of Heaven, based on Jon Krakauer’s book of the same. Led by Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones, it follows a Mormon detective whose faith by a murder investigation in which the church seems to be involved. The show will arrive this spring. Danny Boyle’s Pistol, which tells the story of British rock band Sex Pistols, will premiere in May. It stars Toby Wallace and Maisie Williams.
Atlanta EP and director Hiro Murai produces the upcoming The Bear, a half-hour comedy about a young chef who returns to his hometown of Chicago to run his family’s restaurant. It will premiere exclusively on Hulu this summer. Landgraf also announced that production has resumed on Jeff Bridges-led drama The Old Man, wherein he plays a man who disappeared from the CIA decades ago and has been living off-the-grid since. It will premiere on FX.
He also announced three new shows that are currently in production and will premiere later this year: The Patient, Class Of ’09, Fleishman Is In Trouble. The former marks Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields’ return to FX post-The Americans. The Patient is a taut psychological thriller starring Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson.
Meanwhile, the limited series Class Of ’09 is an FBI suspense thriller starring Brian Tyree Henry and Kate Mara. Finally, Fleishman Is In Trouble is an adaptation of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s book of the same name. The cast is led by Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan, and Claire Danes.
Weisberg and Fields, along with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Darren Aronofsky, are also producing an adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred. This eight-episode sci-fi series centers on a young Black woman and aspiring writer who uproots her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles. Before she can settle into her new home, she finds herself being violently pulled back in time to a 19th-century plantation to which she and her family are surprisingly and intimately linked. It goes into production later this year.
Feeling overwhelmed already? Well, the cabler is also serving up the animated series Little Demon (starring Aubrey Plaza and Danny DeVito), as well as the docuseries Dear Mama and Welcome To Wrexham set for this year. Landgraf also touted 2023 programming, which includes a new season of Fargo, a Justified revival, Noah Hawley’s TV show set in the Alien movie franchise, a Shogun adaptation, Great Expectations (which stars Olivia Colman and more), and Brit Marling’s murder mystery series Retreat.
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Scroll, yawn, scroll, yawn, Noah Hawley’s Alien show was greenlit!Way to bury the lede there.
If its like Legion I’m fucking sold!
Nothing in this world will ever be like Legion. The premise of this show sounds interesting though, not sure where he’s going with it.
Honestly just curious to see if it picks up any cues from the Ridley Scott David movies
For the last several years the simulation we live in has been the experiment group for a scientific study on how much we’re willing to tolerate so long as the TV is really good.
It was touch and go there for a while, but then the last season of ‘The Good Place’ really stuck the landing.
The fact that there keep being different shows where Timothy Olyphant plays the same character seems very inefficient, so I just propose that the new Justified series just run continuously as long as Olyphant is still alive.
Make it somehow tie into new Santa Clarita and you have a deal.
Right? I was joking to my Dad about this but he plays basically different iterations of the same character in:Deadwood (angry version)Fargo S4 (dickhead version)Justified (bit of an asshole but basically a hero version)The Mandalorian/Book of Boba Fett (Nice guy version).It’s like he’s been reincarnated across time and space as a no-nonsense law man. If you want to stretch the point, even his turn as The Spirit of The West in Rango is a variation on a theme, because he’s basically The Man With No Name, and what is Raylan Givens if not a Clint Eastwood drifter forced to uphold the law in modern times?
“It’s like he’s been reincarnated across time and space as a no-nonsense law man.”There’s your show right there!
Say thankya.
you forgot GO (Drug dealer version), The Girl Next Door (porn director version) and Scream 2 (psycho killer version).
The Crazies (husband material version)
FX has pretty much embraced this! Started with John Landgraf himself handpicking Olyphant for Justified, off from Season 2 of Damages (ambiguous good/bad cop version)Also:The Simpsons (corrupt cop version) – last November’s 2 part specialGone in 60 seconds (annoying buddy cop version)
He’s very, very good at playing this very specific role, and I’d honestly be very happy if they just said, “We’re going to do a new Justified season every few years for as long as Olyphant is able to put a cowboy hat on his head.”
Can’t believe no one mentioned “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” meta/actor version.
Counter-example: Santa Clarita Diet. Or is it…?
I was hoping for Shogun to be a 2022 show.
“Led by Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones, it follows a Mormon detective whose faith by a murder investigation in which the church seems to be involved.”whose faith IS CHALLENGED by (perhaps?)
You’ll have to watch to find out!
The Middle of This Sentence: The Show: Premiering on FX this fall. You won’t happens next!
The AV Club is like a show I used to really like but now I’m just tuning in to hate-watch and for the nostalgia
Under the Banner of Heaven was a spectacular book. I’m looking forward to that.
Brit Marling? Is that the person who wrote ‘The OA’ and made me viscerally hate everyone involved, including myself for watching it?
I gave up on The OA half way through. At least The East and Sound of My Voice were both very good.
Now, I’m not a big football fan (YES AMERICANS!!), but damn I’m waiting to see Welcome To Wrexham. Van and Mac are the white fit boy buddy couple that I didn’t know I needed.
I loved Justified and it ended perfectly. I don’t need to see what Ralyan Givins was up to in florida with no Body Crowder.
UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN was an amazing nonfiction book from 15 yrs ago that Ive recommended for years to friends. It’s a crazy story, and gets into the crazy history of the Mormon church and the wackier cousin offshoots of it. I’m very excited for this!
I really hope the Kindred adaptation is good. So much of Butler’s writing is the thoughts of the character as they wrestle with impossible decisions, I really wonder how they’ll pull it off. In the book the character doesn’t move to LA, she and her husband are in the middle of buying their first house but they are already living in LA (if I remember correctly).Under the Banner of Heaven was very good but brutal (so was Kindred).