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FX has given a pilot order to Kindred, an adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s influential novel, from writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), Courtney Lee-Mitchell (The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Darren Aronofsky and his Protozoa Pictures (Black Swan, The Wrestler), Joe Weisberg (The Americans) and Joel Fields (Fosse/V…

FX’s groundbreaking series Pose is set to walk its final ball. The series co-created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals will enter its third and final season on May 2 at 10pm ET/PT with its first two episodes of its seven-episode run. The series finale will shablam its way to FX on June 6. The news was…

Edie Falco has been tapped to play Hillary Clinton in Impeachment: American Crime Story, Ryan Murphy's upcoming FX limited series about the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, sources close to the project have confirmed to Deadline. The third season of American Crime Story will be based on Jeffrey Toobin's book A…

The story of hip hop has been told before – a world created by the likes of DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, the Sugarhill Gang and Run-DMC has had its fair share of ink and moving pictures. Many of the behind the scenes figures such as Sugar Hill Records founder Sylvia Robinson, Def Jam's Rick Rubin and Russell…

FX is moving forward with its adaptation of The Spook Who Sat By the Door – ordering a pilot for the project. The project, which is exec produced by Lee Daniels, was written by Foundation and Raising Dion co-exec producer Leigh Dana Jackson and will be directed by The Twilight Zone and The First Purge director Gerard M…

The next three months promise to be busy for FX, which has set the dates for its new and returning programs coming in March and April. On tap are new seasons of Mayans M.C., Breeders, the documentary feature Hysterical, and Cake, featuring Peter Huang's Nine Films About Technology, a series of darkly comedic…

The coronavirus pandemic, which crippled Hollywood production for months, likely brought about the peak in what FX chairman John Landgraf once famously coined as Peak TV. The network’s research department has released its annual estimate of the total number of scripted television series for calendar year 2020, and it…

The stories of hip hop power brokers Big U, Deb Antney, Bimmy, Trick Trick and Haitian Jack are being told in FX's upcoming documentary series Hip Hop Uncovered. You can watch the trailer above for the series, which launches at 10 p.m. Friday, February 12, on FX before hitting FX on Hulu the following day. Coming from…

“I see this show and I see this season, this is an act of patriotism that we're involved with" says Fargo creator Noah Hawley of the 1950s Kansas City-set fourth installment of the FX series. "To tell a story that looks at America and looks at the reality of America, there is no more patriotic act than to be honest…

Scott Frank, co-creator, writer and director of breakout Netflix hit The Queen's Gambit, is swapping chess for Jesuit priests and extraterrestrial life in his next project. Frank is developing an adaptation of Mary Doria Russell's 1996 novel The Sparrow for FX with Chernobyl director Johan Renck on board as…

FX has opted not to move forward with Redeemer, a drama series that was to have reunited True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto and one of the series’ original stars, Matthew McConaughey, Deadline has confirmed. The project had landed a script-to-series commitment at the network in January. The decision to drop the…

Slumdog Millionaire and Yesterday helmer Danny Boyle is collaborating with FX on a limited series based on the memoir of Steve Jones, the legendary Sex Pistols guitarist who helped usher in a punk revolution in Britain. Boyle will direct and executive produce the six-part series, which is titled Pistol and was created…