HBO has picked up a new David Simon/Ed Burns miniseries which paints a hypothetical U.S. reality that feels fightingly relevant and less farfetched following the Pittsburgh Synagogue massacre.

The six-part The Plot Against America, based on the praised Philip Roth novel, comes from Annapurna Pictures and Joe Roth. It…

Edward Burns’ Marlboro Road Gang Productions is teaming with Radar Pictures to develop bestselling author Tosca Lee’s The Progeny as a television series.

Lee’s genre-bending books bring a modern twist to an ancient mystery surrounding Elizabeth Báthory, the 16th-century countess known as the world’s most notorious fema…

AMC has put in development Gang Leader for a Day, a drama series from Hand of God creator Ben Watkins, Ed Burns and Radar.

Written by Watkins based on Sudhir Venkatesh's best-selling book, with Burns set to executive produce and act in a supporting role, Gang Leader for a Day centers on Sudhir, a wide-eyed, ambitious…

Binge-hungry Public Morals fans will have plenty to munch on this Labor Day weekend. TNT is making available the entire first season on-demand for subscribers beginning at noon Saturday through Monday evening. All 10 episodes of Ed Burns’ 1960s-set police drama will be available via TNT On Demand, tntdrama.com and the…

The 1960s set cop show didn’t quite lock it up last night for TNT. The 10 PM debut of the cable network's Public Morals drew 2.14 million viewers with a 0.3 rating among adults 18-49, according to Nielsen. Created by, directed by and starring Ed Burns, the Amblin Television produced drama follows the NYPD division…

In a nation obsessed with nostalgia, the Sixties have emerged in recent years as America's favorite decade to look back on. Debuting tonight on TNT, Public Morals isn't going to replace the now over and gone Mad Men as a portal to that time. Still, as my video review above says, while the Ed Burns created, directed…

Edward Burns created, produces, directs and stars in TNT’s period cop drama Public Morals. From Steven Spielberg's Amblin TV, Public Morals is set in the early 1960s in New York City's Public Morals Division, where cops walk the line between morality and criminality as the temptations that come from dealing with all…

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EXCLUSIVE: Ed Burns has been tapped to play notorious mobster Bugsy Siegel in a recurring role on Frank Darabont's upcoming TNT series Lost Angels. Additionally, Robert Knepper, originally cast as a recurring, has been upped to a regular on the 1940s-set crime drama. Based on the John Buntin book L.A. Noir, Lost Angels…

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