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EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks has acquired North American rights to Monsieur Spade, a one-hour drama starring Clive Owen from The Queen’s Gambit co-creator Scott Frank and City On A Hill showrunner Tom Fontana. Black Bear Television also has joined as the series’ studio and will deficit finance. FilmNation Entertainment (I K…

The top scripted series on each of the Big 4 broadcast networks — Grey's Anatomy (ABC), FBI (CBS), Chicago Fire (NBC) and 9-1-1 (Fox) — all have something in common: They are the motherships of drama franchises that stage frequent crossovers. Building integrated universes consisting of multiple series, whose…

Granville Adams, who portrayed Zahir Arif in HBO’s Oz, died after a battle with cancer. He was 58. Showbiz & Media Figures We’ve Lost In 2021 – Photo Gallery The news was confirmed on Sunday by multiple friends including Oz‘s showrunner/executive producer Tom Fontana, and costars Kirk Acevedo and Harold Perrineau. “I…

“I'm starting to feel like this is my funeral,” Oz creator Tom Fontana joked, while sitting down for an ATX retrospective on Monday, celebrating his series’ enduring impact. During the lively, foul-mouthed conversation, moderator Eric Deggans of NPR noted that the prison drama was the first one-hour drama series ever…

The Queen’s Gambit co-creator Scott Frank is heading back to the 1960s. Clive Owen is set to star in Monsieur Spade, a one-hour drama series from Frank and City On a Hill showrunner Tom Fontana, which is currently being pitched, generating a lot of interest from buyers, Deadline has learned. The predominantly French…

Showtime’s Boston-based crime drama City On A Hill may take place in the 1990s, but today’s conversations about racism and police corruption will find relevance in the series’ upcoming second season, executive producer and showrunner Tom Fontana revealed. On Tuesday, Fontana joined Aldis Hodge, Kevin Bacon, Jill…

When the 14 newly minted Sundance Institute fellow step into the Episodic Labs on Thursday, they and their nine projects will be receiving guidance from some of the best of the small screen best. Though Oz creator and City on the Hill executive producer Tom Fontana might freak some of the Fellows out with his enduring…

The ATX Television Festival closed with a screening of City on a Hill ahead of its June 16 premiere on Showtime (you can also watch it here). Series creator Chuck MacLean, showrunner Tom Fontana, executive producer Jennifer Todd as well as stars Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge and Jill Hennessy were on hand to talk about the…

EXCLUSIVE: The eighth season of the ATX Television Festival continues to add to its extensive slate of programming with a reunion of the FX comedy The League. The fest, which takes place in Austin June 6-9, also announced guests for the previously announced panel for Hulu’s Veronica Mars as well as the closing night…

Kevin Bacon, star of Showtime's forthcoming drama City on a Hill, said that he was attracted to the Boston crime thriller as it reminded him of Martin Scorsese and Sidney Lumet movies from the 1970s. Bacon plays corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran Jackie Rohr in the series, which was written by Chuck MacLean (Boston Stra…

The WGA East said today that Tom Fontana, who wrote for such classic TV dramas as Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz and St. Elsewhere and continues to be busy, will receive its Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement. He will be feted February 17 during the 71st annual Writers Guild Awards at New York's Edison…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Tom Fontana is set to write and Oscar and Emmy winner Oliver Stone is set to direct the pilot of Dolce Vita, a period drama series set in 1950s Rome, for Entertainment One and Italian-based Mediaset Group and Martha De Laurentiis' De Laurentiis Company. Created and written by Fornata, Dolce Vita…