Through its four seasons, Snowfall has explored a story whose gripping force is grounded in a sobering history: crack cocaine's siege on South Los Angeles in the 1980s. Yet the FX series has pointedly integrated moments of humor and brightness, achieving a blend of tones that is a key aspect of the show's…
The TCA panel for the third season of FX drama Snowfallreflected on series co-creator John Singleton in the wake of his death in April at 51 and how they’re continuing to tell the story of his hometown South Central LA.
“He told truthful stories about people who had been ignored, who had been depicted in a negative…
FX's Snowfall has been picked up for a second season. The show, which depicts the beginnings of the 1980s crack epidemic in Los Angeles, centers around Franklin (Damson Idris) and his friends as they search for ways to support their families and land on crack as a solution to their financial woes.
Season 1 spent some…
“We're still kind of feeling the ramifications… it set those communities back for generations,” said Snowfall executive producer/showrunner Dave Andron today during a panel discussion at the American Black Film Festival about the upcoming FX drama series, which follows the onset of the cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles…
Encouraging news for FX’s 1980s cocaine-epidemic drama pilotSnowfall — the project has secured a series showrunner. Dave Andron has signed a two-year overall deal with FX Productions, the studio behind the drama. Under the pact, he will serve as executive producer and showrunner on John Singleton and Eric Amadio’s Sno…
EXCLUSIVE: Working Title has set Dave Andron to adapt Stone Rider, the David Hofmeyr dystopian science fiction novel about a young man who wants a chance to escape Blackwater, the dust-bowl desert town he grew up in and lead a good life with the beautiful Sadie Blood. Alongside Sadie and the dangerous outsider Kane…