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The Walking Dead trial over potentially millions in unpaid profits has seen executive producers and heavyweight Hollywood lawyers take the stand the past week, but today the storm over who is owed what by whom went straight into the eye of the hurricane. Long referenced in the nearly three-year-old suit filed by EPs Ro…

For a trial probing potentially millions in profits denied Robert Kirkman and other executive producers of The Walking Dead, some real star power showed up Friday on this battlefield of the zombie apocalypse blockbuster series. "The representation to me was we would be treated the same as if it was made by Lionsgate…

The second day of Robert Kirkman's mini-trial over profits from The Walking Dead started with fireworks over who knew what and when – and not over the millions of dollars the creator of the long-running and highly successful zombie apocalypse series claims AMC swindled out of him and other executive producers. On a…

AMC’s ad-free service AMC Premiere has acquired BBC One’s HG Wells adaptation The War of the Worlds, toplined by Rafe Spall, Eleanor Tomlinson and Robert Carlyle. The three-part drama was made by Mammoth Screen and the indie’s parent company ITV Studios secured the deal with AMC as part of a raft of sales announced at…

When the zombie apocalypse does come, downtown Los Angeles may or may not be an epicenter of societal breakdown. But it sure felt like it today as the first of several The Walking Dead profit-participation trials that kicked off in the City of Angels. "If AMC Networks paid 100% of the production of The Walking Dead…

Frank Darabont and CAA on Tuesday responded to a December motion for summary judgment from AMC, which is looking to dismiss the profits lawsuit brought by the former The Walking Dead showrunner and his agency. In a memorandum of law filed Tuesday in New York state Supreme Court, the parties say the suit, over Modified…

EXCLUSIVE: Tosin Cole (Doctor Who, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) is set as the lead opposite Courtney B. Vance in AMC's upcoming courtroom drama series 61st Street from BAFTA-winner Peter Moffat (The Night Of). Bentley Green (Snowfall) also has been cast in a key role in the series executive produced by Michael B…

Two of AMC Networks' most offbeat hits are musical comedy Sherman's Showcase and short-form series State of the Union. The group is now looking at the future of both shows. State of the Union aired on SundanceTV and Sherman's Showcase airs on IFC. The good news for the latter is that the company is set to give it a…

One of the challenges surrounding AMC and ITV drama Quiz, which explores the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? cheating scandal in the UK, was how it was going to portray the television executives at the center of it. The show, produced by The Crown producer Left Bank and starring Succession's Matthew Macfadyen, The Good…

AMC is developing a number of ideas that could be the basis for a third season of historical horror anthology drama The Terror. The network has been pitched concepts by production company Scott Free and is talking about which would make it for a third run. The first season of the drama, which was based on Dan Simmons'…

AMC Networks ended the day at TCA with one of their most critically acclaimed shows Better Call Saul. Big news was unveiled as showrunner Peter Gould and fellow executive producer and co-creator Vince Gilligan announced that they have been picked up for a sixth season ahead of the February 23 premiere of the fifth…

Better Call Saul has been renewed for a sixth and final season by AMC. The Sony Pictures Television-produced show has handed the Emmy-nominated Breaking Bad prequel a 13-episode season to go into production later this year and air in 2021. The news was announced during the Better Call Saul panel at the TCA winter…