Discovery CEO Touts Ad Trends, Says Planned Streamer Will Have "Fresh" Originals

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business Editor“I’m getting some pretty meaty offers in the past few days that I am going to attribute to Loy Cannon,” said Chris Rock, who plays the head of the eponymous Cannon crime syndicate in the fourth season of Fargo.“Yeah, I am ready to do more stuff like this. More meaty roles,” the standup comic-actor-director announced at the New Yorker Festival in a Tuesday night virtual session.

Matt Ratana has told how a planned holiday to reunite with him will now be a visit to his grave. Matthew Ratana, from New Zealand, had been hoping to meet up with the Kiwi police officer, whose late mother Mary was Scottish, during a planned trip to the UK earlier this year.

Fargo, FX's American crime story inspired by the Coen Brothers' classic 1996 movie, is back for Season 4. It stars Chris Rock and Jason Schwartzman as the heads of warring crime families, one Black and the other Italian, in 1950 Kansas City.

funny drama! Chris Rock, Steve Carell, Kate McKinnon and several of their fellow comedians have more than proved they are cut out for serious roles.Actors who are known for their humor often get typecast into similar parts or willingly pursue the funniest projects in the business, but some step outside their comfort zones and show fans what they are made of.Rock followed in the footsteps of Billy Bob Thornton, Ewan McGregor and Kirsten Dunst when he agreed to star in season 4 of Fargo as crime

Fargo experience and a new season of South Park, which ignores social distancing rules with the coronavirus, as well as two stirring documentaries about the final chapter of life, both investigative and celebratory.

Discovery has extended the tenure of Gunnar Wiedenfels as CFO. On Friday, the cable network group said in an SEC filing that it had signed an agreement on Sept.

Also Read: 'Atlanta' to Return to Production in the 'First Half of 2021,' FX Chief John Landgraf Says“I thought that that was interesting, and an interesting way to talk about assimilation and immigration,” Hawley continued. Year 4 of “Fargo” is also the furthest back in time the show travels, taking place in the 1950s.

Fargo” — so working with series creator Noah Hawley on Season 4 was a huge plus.” ‘Fargo’ is my favorite show,” Schwartzman, 40, tells The Post. “I remember that I was in the middle of Season 2 and I was thinking to myself, ‘It’s amazing that this exists, that it gets to be made.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIn its first three seasons, “Fargo” found a surprising amount of elasticity within its constrained format. Each installment borrowed the tone of Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1996 Midwestern noir, which places human greed against a setting of frigid climate and rigid propriety, to tell increasingly complicated crime stories.

Fargo season four is the best part he’s ever had.The comedian, who plays mob boss Loy Cannon in the FX series, sang the praises of Noah Hawley’s Coen Brothers spin-off show in conversation with The Hollywood Reporter.“This is the best part I’ve ever had,” Rock said. “Sometimes you get a great love and you’re just not ready for it,” he continued, nodding to one of his early roles opposite Morgan Freeman in Nurse Betty.“Great part, and I wasn’t fucking ready. Now, Don Cheadle would’ve been.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorDiscovery Inc. will see ad sales dip 10% or less in the current third quarter, an improvement from a 14% drop in the previous three months as the U.S.

When you’re ready to make your feature film directorial debut, you couldn’t have been set up for success better than Noah Hawley and his “Lucy in the Sky.” Not only did he have the backing of Searchlight Pictures, but he also had a cast that included Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz, and Dan Stevens.

Chris Rock signed on to star in the fourth installment of FX’s Fargo before creator Noah Hawley had written a single word. Rock’s "yes," which was immediate and emphatic, had everything to do with the quality of what had come before — specifically, the show’s nuanced treatment of another Black character, season two’s mob henchman Mike Milligan, played to perfection by Bokeem Woodbine.

Fargo” returned to production in August, Noah Hawley — the writer who somehow adapted an eccentric and beloved Coen brothers film into one of the most decorated television series of the past decade — sent a letter to the show’s cast and crew. He wrote about the importance of safety.

Verizon's decision to expand its deal to offer the Disney+ streaming service free to certain subscribers by offering Disney's bundle of streaming services came due to the strong Disney brand, CEO Hans Vestberg signaled on Tuesday. "Our strategy in this area" of teaming with content brands has worked well in the case of Apple Music and Disney+, which had a "great start" when it launched late last year, he saidduring an appearance at the virtual Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference.

There's an immediate rush that comes from the opening minutes of a new season of FX's Fargo, intensified by the three-years-plus since Noah Hawley's adaptation/expansion of the Coen brothers' classic last aired.

Fargo TV series, is also a novelist. Before he ever started working in TV, he wrote novels like  A Conspiracy of Tall Men, and has continued to write even while producing Fargo and Legion.

The fourth season of Noah Hawley’s highly acclaimed FX series “Fargo” was a notable casualty of the pandemic as production shut down back in March with only two episodes left to be shot. A couple of weeks ago, the team behind the series started up again, trying to bring this year’s story in for its final chapter with a heavy amount of protective precautions designed to make that as likely as possible.

Keir Starmer has said.The Labour leader used an interview today to insist the Union was safe in his party's hands and promised he would campaign ahead of next year's Holyrood elections against calls for an IndyRef2.The constitutional debate has been reignited in Scotland following a series of opinion polls this year suggesting rising support for independence.Nicola Sturgeon wants the UK Government to grant Holyrood the powers to hold another legally-binding referendum on the issue but Boris