AT&T said starting tomorrow it will offer premium video content for free to subscribers that don’t have channels like Starz, Epix, HBO and Cinemax. The move comes as AT&T’s WarnerMedia, where these networks live, is set to launch new streaming service HBO Max on a still unspecified date in May. It has been counting on…
EXCLUSIVE: Schitt’s Creek‘s Emily Hampshire is set as the female lead opposite Adrien Brody in Chapelwaite,Epix’s previously untitled drama series based on Stephen King’s short story Jerusalem’s Lot.Chapelwaite is set to begin production in Halifax, Nova Scotia in April with an eye towards a Fall 2020 premiere.
Set…
EXCLUSIVE: James Purefoy (The Following, Sex Education), Edward Hogg (Taboo, Harlots), Jessye Romeo (Curfew, In the Long Run), Ramon Tikaram (Brassic, The Victim) and Harriet Slater(Faunutland and the Lost Magic) are set as series regulars opposite Jack Bannon for the upcoming second season of Epix’s DC origin storyP…
Forest Whitaker-led Godfather of Harlem will be coming back for another go-round. Epix has renewed the drama series, from ABC Signature, for a 10-episode second season. Production on season 2 will begin in New York later this year.
While Epix does not release viewership data, Godfather of Harlem, boosted by strong…
EXCLUSIVE:Epix’s noir drama series Perpetual Grace, LTD will not be renewed for a second season but will get a proper ending. We have learned that the premium network is planning a short limited run as a followup to the first season of the Ben Kingsley and Jimmi Simpson-fronted drama. Talks are still in early stages…
Premium network Epix on Saturday unveiled its scripted and unscripted development slate for 2020 and beyond. The slate was announced at TCA by Epix President Michael Wright. The network is coming off the debuts of the first series ordered by Wright, docuseries Elvis Goes There and Punk; and scripted dramas Perpetual Gr…
Epix has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to Jerusalem’s Lot, a drama based on the short story by Stephen King to star Oscar winner Adrien Brody. The series is the first from Epix Productions as Epix becomes the latest cable/premium network to launch an in-house production arm.
Jerusalem’s Lot hails from…
Pennyworth, the stylish one-hour drama devoted to the edgy, early-day exploits of Batman’s British butler, will return for a second season on Epix. The 10-episode Season 2 will begin filming in January at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the UK.
The series stars Jack Bannon in the title role and Ben Aldridge as young…
UPDATED with Comcast statement.Lionsgate-owned Starz has delivered another shot across the bow in its ongoing talks with Comcast, warning millions of Xfinity customers that they could lose access to the premium network on December 10. Comcast is the No. 1 U.S. cable operator, with most of its 21 million-plus…
MGM-owned Epix has reached an expanded carriage deal with Comcast that will extend the premium network’s reach by adding it to the provider’s premium channel package.
The new pact takes effect December 10. The new deal supplements Epix’s existing availability on an a la carte basis, swapping Epix for Starz in the…
Before Nina Yang Bongiovi and her producing partner Forest Whitaker launched Significant Productions and created acclaimed films such as Fruitvale Station, Dope, Roxanne Roxanne and Sorry to Bother You, Bongiovi had another career in mind: journalism. Specifically, she saw a career as an on-air reporter — much like…
The new Fall TV season is officially underway with new series debuts last night on Fox, NBC and CBS. While it looks like the lowest rated Premiere Monday ever due to the changing habits and options of viewers, the expanse of new shows coming in the next two weeks on broadcast, cable and streaming seems greater than…
