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In a sign of changing times, both in terms of industry consolidation and shifting technology and release platforms, Hulu and FX are teaming up to take over streaming and linear rights to Lionsgate theatrical films starting in 2020. Details of the arrangement, which replaces a long-term pact with Epix, were confirmed…

UPDATED with wrap-up: The first Walt Disney Company Upfront Presentation offered a newly bulked-up media company flexing its Madison Avenue muscle at at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. The first upfront since Disney’s merger with most of 21st Century Fox showcase all of its ad-supported brands: ABC, ESPN, Freeform…

FX Networks has set summer premiere dates for three critically-acclaimed series, comedy Baskets, and dramas Legion and John Singleton’s Snowfall. The fourth of season of Baskets starring Zach Galifianakis premieres Thursday, June 13 at 10 PM on FX. Legion, from Noah Hawley will kick off its third and final season…

ABC’s May 14 upfront presentation is expanding to include the network’s new corporate siblings following the completion of the Disney’s $71.5 billion acquisition of key Fox assets, including FX Networks and National Geographic Networks. The combined Walt Disney Company Upfront event on May 14 will feature ABC, ESPN, Fr…

The company behind such series as Atlanta, Pose, Mayans M.C. and Snowfall is set to receive the 2019 DGA Diversity Award. FX Networks will receive the honor — which has been bestowed only a handful of times in the DGA Awards’ long history — during the guild’s trophy show next year. The Diversity Award recognizes the…

The BBC and FX Networks have expanded their content deal, giving original series from the U.S. broadcaster a primary home in the UK for the first time. The deal extends the relationship between the BBC and FX, which co-produce the Tom Hardy-led drama series Taboo. It also gives the BBC rights to Devs, the UK-produced t…

It came as a shocker when FX in March announced that it is not going forward with its Marvel's Deadpool animated adult action-comedy series, from Atlanta creator/executive producer/star Donald Glover and writer Stephen Glover, citing “creative differences” Landgraf made it clear the decision was entirely Marvel’s…

Producer Ryan Murphy and the creative team behind Pose put an exclamation mark at the end of FX’s day at TCA summer press tour with a panel taking stock of the show’s pioneering first season and its direction from here. Writers are beginning work next month on the second season of Pose, which broke ground by featuring…

Mayans M.C. cast member Edward James Olmos, a longtime advocate for onscreen diversity, says FX’s Sons of Anarchy spinoff “is going to move the needle” in terms of how Latino characters are depicted. During a panel at TCA summer press tour, the star predicted that the show will break through because it unflinchingly…

The name of the next American Horror Story iteration, American Horror Story: Apocalypse, is literal, EP ALexis Martin Woodall said at TCA panel on the latest season of the anthology horror hit. “The story begins with the end of the world, and then our world begins” she smiled. And, Jessica Lange is returning, Sarah…

Scott Ryan, creator and star of FX’s new Mr Inbetween, already has won TCA’s award for Most Low Key Panelist. In May, FX announced it had ordered a six-episode first season of Mr Inbetween, a half-hour drama series from  Ryan and Nash Edgerton, inspired by Ryan's 2005 cult film The Magician, for premiere on FX and Foxt…

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-creator and star Rob McElhenney said a “massive” show of enthusiasm from LGBTQ viewers to his character, Mac, coming out as gay last season helped the show lean into the storyline in the upcoming Season 13. The session devoted to the show during TCA summer press tour tweaked the…