Latest in Waco

EXCLUSIVE: American Tragedies: Waco – The Trials, the Paramount+ follow up to the 2018 miniseries, has found its cast. David Costabile and J. Smith-Cameron are among the stars joining the series, alongside John Leguizamo reprising his role. Giovanni Ribisi, John Hoogenakker, Keean Johnson and Abbey Lee also…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Shannon starred as FBI negotiator Gary Noesner in Paramount Network's 2018 series Waco and four years later he has boarded the follow up series as an executive producer. Shannon is set as one of the exec producers, alongside creators and showrunners Drew and John Erick Dowdle, for Paramount+'s Americ…

Paramount+ is building on its scripted mini-series Waco with a new anthology series. The streamer is launching American Tragedy, which will tackle complicated moments in true crime. Waco, which aired in 2018 on the Paramount Network, was a six-part series that dramatized the 1993 standoff between the FBI, the Bureau…

A three-time Emmy nominee recognized this year for the first time in almost 20 years, Waco's John Leguizamo dove head first into Paramount Network's limited series, investigating the psychology of David Koresh's Branch Davidians, and those who fell under their spell. With this true-crime series from John Erick Dowdle…

One of the more riveting miniseries epics this past Emmy season has been John Erick and Drew Dowdle’s six-parter Waco, which launched Viacom’s new adult-demo channel the Paramount Network this year. While the early ’90s standoff between the ATF and FBI and the Branch Davidians sect consumed the headlines, years later…

After the audience at the ATX Television Festival watched an initial episode of Waco, actors Taylor Kitsch, Julia Garner, Paul Sparks and  show creators/writers Drew Dowdle and John Erick Dowdle took the stage to talk about Paramount Network’s limited series. When asked how it is to watch the series with an audience…

Waco, the dramatic miniseries based on the deadly 51-day standoff in 1993 between Branch Davidians and federal law enforcement, premiered earlier this year on the Paramount Network, formerly SpikeTV. It stars Michael Shannon as real-life FBI agent Gary Noesner and Taylor Kitsch as Branch Davidians leader David…

Megan Spanjian, the EVP and Head of Scripted TV at The Weinstein Company, has joined UTA as a senior packaging executive in the agency’s television department. She started this week, and in her new role she will work with UTA’s writers, directors, producers and talent to package IP and create content. At TWC, Spanjian…

Waco led Paramount Network to a strong start in ratings in its first month (from January 18-February 17). The first four episodes of  the limited series, which premiered January 24, averaged 2.4 million viewers (Paramount Network and CMT, which is simulcasting combined) and a 1.5 rating with Adults 18-49 (1.2 on…

Paramount Network debuted January 18 and is off to a solid start. Having replaced Viacom’s Spike, the new channel is up 93% in adults 18-49 and 85% in viewership vs the previous quarter. Waco, its limited series about the 1993 Branch Davidian standoff with the federal government, premiered Wednesday as the best-rated…

Debuting tonight on the Paramount Network, Waco is a bit of a mess. For one thing, the six-episode series starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch and spotlighting the 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Texas back in 1993 and its fiery and fatality filled-end is pretty much all over the map narratively…

Creators of Paramount Network’s Waco set out to dramatize the “no bad guys” version of the 1993 standoff at the Branch Davidian splinter group complex. Four government agents were killed in a botched raid by ATF, which suspected that the facility was housing a weapons arsenal. The 51-day standoff that ensued ended…