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Prolific television director David Von Ancken, who also helmed the feature Seraphim Falls, passed away July 26 at his home in Agoura Hills, CA after a two-year battle with aggressive stomach cancer. He was 56. David Von Ancken, known lovingly as “DVA,” was born in New York on December 5, 1964. His career got off to a…

Hell on Wheels wrapped up its five-season run on AMC Saturday with a series finale episode that drew 2.5 million total viewers, including 784k adults 25-54 in Live+3 ratings. The final Season 5 averaged 2.6 million viewers per episode, including 837k adults 25-54. The last seven episodes of HOW showed the end of the…

Hell On Wheels is rolling on out. AMC said it will premiere the second half of the Western period drama’s fifth and final season at 9 PM ET Saturday June 11. It will be followed at 10 PM by the series premiere of the Robert Redford- and Stephen David-produced limited event series The American West. HOW‘s final seven…

Reg Rogers (The Americans, The Knick) and Tzi Ma (24, Million Dollar Arm) have signed on as series regulars for the fifth and final season of AMC's Hell On Wheels, joining Tim Guinee who was recently promoted to regular, and Byron Mann. Rogers, repped by Innovative Artists and Brookside Artist Management, will play…

Byron Mann (The Man With The Iron Fists, Rise Of The Legend) has joined the cast of AMC's Hell On Wheels as a series regular. Mann will play Chang, a powerful businessman and main Chinese labor contractor vying for power in the building of the Central Pacific Railroad. Chang controls the flow of Chinese workers along…

Bill Smitrovich (Ted) has booked a series regular role on CBS' multi-cam comedy pilot Happy Life (fka Joe Time). It centers on Joe (Steven Weber), a family man who struggles with the fact that all the people around him are pursuing their dreams and enjoying their lives more than he is. Smitrovich, repped by The Kohner…

As expected, Hell On Wheels will be returning for a fifth season. But it will be AMC’s unsung ratings hero’s final go-around. The network has given a 14-episode fifth season pickup to the Western period drama. Like it has done with its other signature series, including Mad Men and Breaking Bad, AMC will split the…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's startling Hell On Wheels episode. EXCLUSIVE: Most series save the death of a major character for a dramatic season finale, but not AMC’s Hell On Wheels — not this year. Halfway through its fourth season, the post-Civil War-set show killed off one of its most…

To paraphrase Elton John, it turns out Saturday night is alright for westerns. Well, one particular western drama on AMC that is. Stationed on the least watched night on TV for the second year in a row, the August 2 Season 4 debut of Hell On Wheels pulled in 2.42 million viewers in Live + SD and 3.6 million total…

Mark L. Young (We’re The Millers) has landed a recurring role on HBO‘s The Comeback. The six-episode followup to the cult 2005 comedy starring Lisa Kudrow is set to return this fall. The original show starred Kudrow as washed-up sitcom actress Valerie Cherish, who gets a reality show documenting her attempt at a…

Jake Weber (Medium, Dawn Of The Dead) has landed a series regular role on AMC‘s drama series Hell On Wheels, from Entertainment One, Endemol USA and Nomadic Pictures. Weber, repped by Paradigm and Framework, will play Harlan Fell, a former military doctor in the Union Army, sent West by Ulysses S. Grant. A…

Canadian country music singer and actress MacKenzie Porter has been cast as a series regular in AMCs Western drama series Hell On Wheels, from Entertainment One, Endemol USA and Nomadic Pictures. Porter, repped by Red Management in Canada and KLWGN Entertainment, will play Naomi, Cullen Bohannon's (Anson Mount) wife…