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In January, AT&T announced that DirecTV’s Audience Network was shutting down, transforming itself into an HBO Max Preview Channel. While not surprising, the move threw in limbo three original series on the channel: comedy Loudermilk and dramas Condor and Mr. Mercedes.  While David E. Kelley’s Mr. Mercedes had just…

The forthcoming third season of Mr. Mercedes is flipping the script in a way. While Season 2 was sourced from the End of Watch, the third book in the Stephen King crime novel series, season 3 will center on events of the third book, Finders Keepers. At TCA, director and executive producer Jack Bender explained the…

AT&T Audience Network has set 10 p.m. Tuesday, September 10, for the Season 3 premiere of Mr. Mercedes, the drama from David E. Kelley based on the Bill Hodges trilogy by Stephen King. Check out the first-look photos above and below. Brendan Gleeson, Justine Lupe, Jharrel Jerome and Breeda Wool star in the series…

“My Frank and I can overcome anything as long as we’re together,” the very well-to-do Nancy Teagarten avers. Whether that includes going broke without their college-bound daughter or nosy neighbors knowing about it is debatable. Here’s the first trailer for Drunk Parents, starring Alec Baldwin and Salma Hayek as the…

Approached by Stephen King with the galleys for King’s latest effort Mr. Mercedes, director Jack Bender was thrilled. “He had never written a detective novel, and I found it fascinating that Stephen was writing this time about the monsters inside the people, as opposed to the monsters outside the people,” Bender told…

Moving to Los Angeles to embark on his career more than two decades ago, writer-director Peter Farrelly (There’s Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber) never had the small screen in mind. “Unless you were on Seinfeld or Cheers or Friends, then it wasn't worth it — it seemed like a waste of time,” Farrelly recalled…

Producer/director Bart Peters, former head of programming, production and development at AT&T’s Audience Network, has launched Big Branch Productions. The company, which has offices in Los Angeles and Nashville, plans to produce original content across all genres and platforms for film, TV and live-audience…

EXCLUSIVE: ReachMe TV, a multi-channel, multi-platform network that has reach to 100 million total viewers in hotels, airports and retail stores, is launching a dedicated sports division. ReachMe Sports will aim to go “beyond the game,” in the words of ReachMe founders Lynnwood Bibbens and Ron Bloom. The new division…

Approached by MGM Television and Skydance Television for a television adaptation of Sydney Pollack’s classic thriller Three Days of the Condor, Jason Smilovic and Todd Katzberg initially were reluctant to do so, finding the notion of adapting the film sacrilegious. But looking at the film more closely, the producers…

Grey’s Anatomy alumna Tessa Ferrer is set as a series regular opposite Jack Huston in Season 2 of AT&T Audience Network's breakout series Mr. Mercedes. Production begins next month in Charleston, SC, on the Sonar Entertainment-produced Stephen King adaptation. The second season will be based on King's best-selling Bill…

Boardwalk Empire alum Jack Huston and Maximiliano Hernandez (Sicario) have joined the Season 2 cast of AT&T Audience Network’s breakout series Mr. Mercedes. Production begins next month in Charleston, South Carolina on the Sonar Entertainment-produced Stephen King adaptation for premiere this summer on DirecTV, AT&T…

DirecTV/AT&T Audience Network programming chief Chris Long just announced that he is exiting the company after almost two decades. Long, who started at Audience when it was owned by DirecTV and remained at the helm following the DirecTV/AT&T merger, is stepping down on the eve of AT&T’s acquisition of Time…