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AMC’s Co-Heads of Scripted Exit for Netflix
Emma Miller and Carrie Gillogly have departed their roles as AMC’s co-heads of scripted for new jobs at Netflix. Miller and Gillogly were promoted in fall 2020 to lead the basic cable network’s scripted efforts as senior vp development and senior vp programming, respectively, reporting to exec vp scripted Ben Davis. The duo recently departed […]
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AMC Reverses Renewal for ‘Soulmates’ Anthology (Exclusive)
Add Soulmates to the list of shows that have been “unrenewed.” AMC has reversed coursed on the previously announced second season for the sci-fi anthology from creators Will Bridges (Black Mirror) and Emmy winner Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso). Sources say the decision to cancel the show was made quietly last year with factors including Goldstein’s […]
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‘Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches’ Renewed at AMC
The Anne Rice universe at AMC will continue to grow. The cable outlet has picked up a second season of Mayfair Witches, based on Rice’s trio of novels about a doctor (Alexandra Daddario) who discovers she is the heir to a family of witches. The renewal comes midway through the show’s first season and follows […]
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Bob Odenkirk’s ‘Better Call Saul’ Follow-Up Gets AMC Premiere Date, Teaser
Bob Odenkirk’s absence from AMC will not be a prolonged one. The cable outlet has set a premiere date for the Better Call Saul star’s next series: Lucky Hank (formerly titled Straight Man) is set to premiere March 19 on AMC and streamer AMC+ — a little over seven months after the Saul series finale and […]
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The Best Cyber Monday Deals on Hulu, Disney+, Peacock, HBO Max and More Streaming Services
Add more movies and TV shows to your Thanksgiving weekend watch list.
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‘The Walking Dead’ Stars React to Series Finale and Tease Upcoming Spinoffs: “The End of the Beginning”
The Walking Dead capped off an 11-season run on Sunday night, with the stars of AMC’s zombie hit celebrating the series finale at a fan event in Los Angeles. Norman Reedus, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lauren Cohan and Melissa McBride, alongside their costars of past and present, walked the carpet at downtown’s Orpheum Theatre and weighed in […]
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‘The Walking Dead’ by the Numbers: One of Cable’s Biggest Ever Series Bows Out
The Walking Dead closes its epic, record-setting run on AMC on Sunday. The show’s extended universe will live on, but the flagship series — one of the biggest in cable history — will wrap up at 10:30 p.m. ET Sunday. Going by recent Nielsen data, about 1.4 million people — save a possible series-ending bump in viewership — will […]
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Why ‘The Walking Dead’ Isn’t Really Ending
AMC’s The Walking Dead has been through hell and back. The zombie drama based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book series has weathered multiple lawsuits, four showrunners and more cast departures and bloody deaths than fans could keep track of. And now that the flagship series is ending (the series finale aired Sunday), AMC like a […]
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George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Getting TV Treatment at AMC
Good Night, and Good Luck is getting the TV treatment at AMC. George Clooney and his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov brought the project to the basic cable network for development. Under AMC’s script-to-series development model, a writers room has been opened to develop a serialized version of the movie that was co-written by Clooney […]
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AMC Theatres’ Investor Suit Settles In $17.4M Deal
A $17.4 million deal has been reached to end a lawsuit from AMC investors accusing the company’s board of directors of illegally allowing its ex-majority shareholder Dalian Wanda Group to squeeze hundreds of millions of dollars out of AMC, according to a securities notice filed on Friday. Funds from the settlement, the majority of which […]
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‘Interview With the Vampire’ Review: AMC’s Queer-Forward Anne Rice Adaptation Is Ripe With Potential
Anne Rice’s vampire classic gets a handsomely mounted, queer-forward AMC series adaptation that offers delectable parts if not a fully satisfying whole
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As AMC Seeks Its Next Hit, President Reiterates Plan to Hit 20M-25M Subs By 2025
Even with The Walking Dead, Better Call Saul and Killing Eve all ending their runs this year, Dan McDermott, president of AMC Studios and entertainment, still said this will be the biggest year for original content in the history of AMC Networks. As for how the network will replace the departing series, McDermott, who was […]
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