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It’s closing time at Lodge 49 — this time for good, it appears. After about six weeks of attempting to shop the quirky comedy after its cancellation by AMC, series creator Jim Gavin threw in the towel via social media today. The two-season series wasn’t able to find a new home. “It breaks my heart to announce that…

AMC’s Lodge 49 is a complicated show to explain — and the creators and cast are certainly aware of that. Creator Jim Gavin and executive producers Paul Giamatti and Peter Ocko took the TCA stage with actors Wyatt Russell and Sonya Cassidy to talk about the show and attempt to unpack the dramedy. On paper, the series…

The creative team behind AMC’s Lodge 49, in a wide-ranging TCA panel suiting the peregrinations of the series, touched on Thomas Pynchon, the “dread” of Sundays in Southern California and how the show is a “palate cleanser” during the peak-TV era. Following Sean “Dud” Dudley, an ex-surfer in Long Beach played by Wyatt…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to drama Lodge 49, from creator Jim Gavin, showrunner Peter Ocko and executive producer Paul Giamatti. Lodge 49 — about a young knucklehead from Long Beach who joins a dusty old fraternal lodge — was one of three drama projects AMC identified in spring 2015…