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FX has tapped Chika Chukudebelu Igwilo as senior vice president of development. In her role, she will lead development of new projects for the network, reporting to presidents of Original Programming Gina Balian and Nick Grad.“I’m thrilled to take on this new role at FX, which has created one of the boldest brands in TV and one devoted to supporting their artists’ highest ambitions,” Chukudebelu Igwilo said in a statement.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Chika Chukudebelu Igwilo has joined FX as senior vice president of development Chukudebelu Igwilo joins FX from HBO Max, where she most recently served as vice president of original programming, drama. In her new role, she will report to Gina Balian and Nick Grad, co-presidents of original programming at FX. “Chika is an extraordinarily talented creative executive with a proven track record of discovering and nurturing talent and guiding projects to success in an incredibly competitive environment,” said Grad and Balian. “We are honored to add such a gifted creative executive to our development team, building on the strength of the team to continue FX’s tradition of fearless storytelling.”

Chika Chukudebelu Igwilo has joined FX as senior vice president of development. She will report to Gina Balian and Nick Grad, the presidents of original programming.

During FX’s TCA executive session last week, chairman John Landgraf revealed that the upcoming Season 11 of the venerable anthology horror series will premiere this fall. This was the first piece of real information the network has provided about the new installment, the first of three picked up in 2020.

WLS-TV first reported — took place Monday night at 10:20 p.m. CT, when the production was filming in Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood on the 1000 block of S. Desplaines.

The set of Justified: City Primeval just can’t catch a break.

Stranger Things star Joe Keery has joined the cast of the upcoming fifth season of Fargo. Keery — who portrays Steve Harrington on Netflix‘s Stranger Things — will join the FX anthology series alongside fellow new additions Lamorne Morris and Richa Moorjani, who are known for their roles in New Girl and Never Have I Ever respectively.Together, the trio join previously announced cast members Juno Temple, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh. True to its anthology form, Fargo’s fifth instalment enlists a new ensemble, this time telling the story of a 2019 kidnapping set somewhere in America’s Midwest.While an official premiere date for the upcoming season is yet to be announced, it has been confirmed that series creator Noah Hawley will return to Fargo as an executive producer, alongside additional producer credits for the Coen Brothers – who directed the original 1996 Fargo film upon which the series is based.Specific plot details for Fargo’s fifth season remain relatively sparse, but FX chairman ​​John Landgraf last week revealed to The Hollywood Reporterthat the new instalment is “particularly comedic this year.”“It’s always a balance between how dramatic versus comedic it is, and this is the more comedic end of the spectrum.

FX Chairman John Landgraf was asked about the July 21 shooting incident on the Chicago set of the network’s upcoming limited series Justified: City Primeval. As Deadline first reported, the incident involved cars whose occupants were engaged in a gunfight smashing through safety barricades. It led to a temporary production halt and the implementation of additional security measures, including bringing in a trained hostage negotiator and his team, which includes former members of the Navy SEALs and Army Rangers.

Details of Season 11 of Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology series American Horror Story have been hard to come by. But we now have confirmation that the upcoming season of the horror anthology series will premiere this fall. The official word came today from FX chairman John Landgraf during his executive session at the TCA summer press tour.

TV series set in the universe of the “Alien” franchise, as well Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo’s prodigious reboot of the famed 1980 miniseries “Shogun.” During the Television Critics Association summer press tour, FX Networks chief John Landgraf offered an update on both ambitious projects. “We wrapped physical production on limited series ‘Showgun’ in June, which was by far our biggest and most ambitious production,” Landgraf revealed.

FX’s television series based on sci-fi classic Alien will begin shooting next year and limited series Shōgun will also air in 2023, according to FX chief John Landgraf.

The relationship between Dana Walden and John Landgraf has long been subject of corporate intrigue. The superstar TV executives had run on parallel tracks at Fox and continued to do so after they both made the transition to Disney following the 2019 acquisition until this past June. The shocking dismissal of Peter Rice, which was followed by Walden’s elevation to his post as Chairman of Disney General Entertainment, changed the dynamic between the two veteran executives, with one of them (Landgraf) reporting to the other (Walden) for the first time since Landgraf joined FX in 2004.

Donald Glover’s acclaimed FX series, . The final season will debut in September, bringing our travel-weary crew back to their homestead in the A.The network dropped a brief teaser, featuring Glover, Zazie Beetz, Brian Tyree Henry and LaKeith Stanfield as they come together in front of a liquor store, surrounded by a surreal series of callbacks to previous episodes.

Universal Studio Group Chairman Pearlena Igbokwe has said reboots and remakes are here to stay but they need to be “interesting” and have “vision,” as she revealed “we spent a year hearing people tell us how horrible a Fresh Prince remake would be.”

Universal Studio Group Chairman Pearlena Igbokwe has said reboots and remakes are here to stay but they need to be “interesting” and have “vision,” as she revealed “we spent a year hearing people tell us how horrible a Fresh Prince remake would be.”

creator Graham Yost led the series’ creatives reunion panel at ATX Festival on Saturday afternoon where fans were treated to secrets from the writer’s room. Joining Yost for the special celebration were executive producer and director Michael Dinner and writer/producers Taylor Elmore, Dave Andron, Chris Provenzano, Benjamin Cavell, Ingrid Escajeda, VJ Boyd, and Wendy Calhoun.

Sasha Urban editorBobak Esfarjani, best known for his work as a writer and producer on NBC’s “Manifest” and as a story editor on “WandaVision” for Disney+, has signed an overall deal with FX Productions.Esfarjani is currently a writer and supervising producer on FX’s upcoming “Alien” series, as well as a show based on the Octavia Butler novel “Kindred.” Esfarjani was previously nominated for a WGA award for his work on “WandaVision.” He will continue work on these and other series for FX, in addition to developing new content.“Bobak has greatly contributed to FX’s upcoming ‘Kindred’ and ‘Alien’ and now, under this agreement, he will be able to apply his considerable talents to other FX series while developing original content that draws on his vision as a writer and creator,” said Kate Lambert, FX’s executive vice president of original programming. Credits of Esfarjani’s also include James Wan’s “Archive 81” for Netflix.

FX has revealed that its hit show Snowfall will be back for one more, and final, season on the network, according to Variety.

Selome Hailu FX has renewed “Snowfall,” the crime drama created by John Singleton, Eric Amadio and Dave Andron, for its sixth and final season.The series is set in Los Angeles during the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. Season 5, which is currently airing on FX, takes place in summer 1986, and follows Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) and his family as they’ve become rich and are on the verge of having everything they’ve ever wanted, until basketball star Len Bias’ crack-related death sends lawmakers and the Los Angeles Police Department after them.

The end is in sight for FX’s critically acclaimed drama series Snowfall. The network has renewed the series, co-created by the late John Singleton, for a sixth and final season.

The planned full day walkout at Disney today over the company’s fumbled response to Florida’s discrimatory “Don’t Say Gay” bill has seen an outpouring of support for the  LGBTQ+ community from some leading divisions in the House of Mouse’s empire

The Don’t Breathe filmmaker is set to write and helm an original Alien movie for 20th Century studios.

Television is big business for both traditional cable networks and streaming services alike. In the case of FX, the cable television channel has shows airing on linear television and streaming.

Both of FX’s awards stalwarts on the comedy side, Atlanta and Better Things, are coming to an end. Better Things co-creator, writer, director, executive producer and star Pamela Adlon announced that the upcoming fifth season will be her show’s last back in October; FX Chairman John Landgraf revealed at TCA today that Atlanta will end with its two upcoming seasons, 3 and 4.

The popular FX series Atlanta is coming to an end following the upcoming fourth season.

Atlanta fans got a bittersweet surprise Thursday when FX chairman John Landgraf said the Donald Glover comedy would end with Season 4. During the show’s TCA panel, Glover, who executive produces, writes, directs and acts, explained the decision to bring the exploits of Earn, Paper Boi and their crew to an end.

Atlanta, Donald Glover‘s award-winning comedy series, will come to an end with its fourth season.The show’s long-awaited third season will premiere on March 24, nearly four years after it was originally scheduled to premiere. It will be followed by its fourth season sometime in the fall of this year.On Thursday (February 17), FX CEO John Landgraf talked to reporters at the Television Critics Association’s (virtual) winter press tour (via The Hollywood Reporter), and he revealed that Atlanta would end after its next two seasons.FX and Glover filmed both seasons three and four back-to-back in a bid to return the comedy to the air as soon as possible.

Donald Glover's hit FX show Atlanta will come to an end after its fourth season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. FX CEO John Landgraf revealed the news on Thursday during the winter press tour for the Television Critics Association.

Donald Glover’s acclaimed FX series,, is coming to an end after season 4, FX chairman John Landgraf revealed during the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour. The final season will debut in the fall, but an exact date was not given. «Donald Glover and his team have shot the final two seasons of this series,» Landgraf also shared.The news comes ahead of ’s long-awaited return with season 3.

Earlier today, it was announced that Noah Hawley is set to do a fifth season of “Fargo.” In fact, that is going to be the next series that he works on. So, what does that mean for his in-development “Alien” series? Well, according to FX, it’s still coming and is going to be pretty great.

FX boss John Landgraf famously said in 2015 that there is “simply too much television” and predicted that the industry would soon hit peak TV.

There’s no future in England’s dreaming but despite this FX is setting its Sex Pistol drama series for May.

After a long journey to the screen that included showrunner and casting changes and a pandemic-related delay, FX’s Y: The Last Man only lasted one season. It was canceled while Season 1 was still airing, a couple of weeks before the Nov. 1 finale.

In the wake of FX announcing a fifth season of Fargo this morning, the network’s chief John Landgraf provided an idea of where the Noah Hawley series is headed at the TCA winter virtual tour.

Atlanta‘s fourth season will also be its last, FX chairman John Landgraf revealed during an executive session on Thursday.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Atlanta” is coming to an end with Season 4.The announcement was made by FX boss John Landgraf during an executive session at FX’s TCA day on Thursday. It was previously known that the hit comedy series had shot Seasons 3 and 4 back to back.Season 3 will debut on March 24, with Season 4 set to air this fall, Landgraf said.