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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…

Multiple Emmy winner Tom Fontana (The Wizard of Lies, Homicide: Life on the Street) has been named showrunner, executive producer and one of the writers on City on a Hill, Showtime’s upcoming drama series starring Kevin Bacon (The Following) and Aldis Hodge (Underground). The 10-episode series, executive produced by Be…

One of the most prolific actors of our time, J.K. Simmons never seems to slow down, with a resume far too long to list here, but which includes everything from Juno to La La Land, to The Closer, True Grit, Justice League, and an Oscar and Globe-winning turn in Whiplash. His latest incarnation in Starz's Counterpart…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s an epidemic sweeping this nation — the opioid problem that has thrown families and the U.S. health care system into crisis. Now, di Bonaventura Pictures Television, Relevant Entertainment and The Levinson Fontana Company are developing an original dramatic TV series based on the story of the…

Sagan Lewis, a co-star on NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere and wife of Emmy-winning TV creator Tom Fontana, died of cancer Sunday at her home in New York City, according to UTA. She was 63. The Omaha, Nebraska native began her acting career in the late 1970s. She was auditioning for the acting company at the…

Starz is stepping up its efforts to get its Havana Quartet drama series project starring Antonio Banderas off the ground, bringing in veteran showrunner Tom Fontana as executive producer. He is bringing a steady and experienced hand to the ambitious production, which is looking to be the first U.S. series to film in…

David Simon and Tom Fontana have multiple cult hits between them, but they say it all started with Homicide: Life on the Street. The two sat down to discuss their history, their shows and how life at HBO has changed in the post-Sopranos age at the ATX TV Fest in Austin Saturday. Fontana says it was Barry Levinson who…

Barry Levinson came to TCA to discuss Discovery’s The Killing Fields which debuted two nights earlier. The six-episode documentary series revolves around Detective Rodie Sanchez, 61, of Iberville Parish south of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He has come out of retirement to work a cold case he investigated in ’97 of Eugenie…