Disney - Investor day 2020 – FX

By Mulder, 10 december 2020

FX Chairman John Landgraf today discussed the brand’s strategic partnership with Hulu as well as programming plans for the coming year. “We focused relentlessly on giving our audience some of the very best television anywhere, and they responded by turning FX into more than just the name of a cable channel. FX became a real brand—a mark of quality wherever it might be located—by earning love—show after show and year after year— from the fans of our distinct and reliably excellent original programming. But the best is still to come. You can see how well Disney’s strategy to brand FX content is already working—and how bright the future is for both the FX brand and for the contributions it will make to both Hulu in the US and Star internationally.”

The following are projects Landgraf mentioned, in chronological order:

New Seasons Of Returning Hit Series Coming In 2021:
New seasons of FX linear series, available to Hulu subscribers the following day, include:
- Seasons three and four of the Emmy and Golden Globe award winning comedy Atlanta (produced by FXP)
- Season 10 of the Emmy and Golden Globe award winning anthological series American Horror Story (produced by 20th Television)
- Season two of the acclaimed hit comedy Dave (produced by FXP)
- Season three of the Emmy nominated comedy series, What We So In The Shadows (produced by FXP)
- Season three of the hit drama series Mayans M.C. (produced by 20th Television and FXP)
- Season five of the Emmy Award nominated and Peabody Award winning comedy Better Things (produced by FXP)
- The hit drama series Snowfall (produced by FXP)
- The Emmy Award-winning animated series Archer (produced by FXP)
- FOUR more seasons of the smash hit It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, which will take Sunny to season 18—four seasons longer than the prior record holder for longest running live action sitcom in television history, Ozzy and Harriet.

FX Originals On Hulu (U.S.) And Star (multiple international markets) In 2021 Include:

The Old Man
The Old Man starring Academy Award and Golden Globe award winner Jeff Bridges, Emmy and Golden Globe award winner John Lithgow, and Emmy and Golden Globe award nominated Amy Brenneman, is a new FX drama series starring Jeff Bridges as a former CIA operative who is forced to reconcile with his past. The Old Man, based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Thomas Perry, is written by John Steinberg & Robert Levine, directed by Jon Watts, and executive produced by Warren Littlefield, Steinberg, Dan Shotz, Levine, Bridges, David Schiff and Watts. (produced by 20th Television)

American Horror Stories
American Horror Stories is a new anthology series from Emmy and Golden Globe award winning producer Ryan Murphy spun off from FX’s biggest, longest running original drama hit, “American Horror Story”. (produced by 20th Television)

Platform
Platform, from BJ Novak, an actor and award-winning writer of “The Office,” is a half-hour anthological television series from FX that uses the boldest issues of our times as a jumping off point to tell singular, character-driven stories about the world we live in today. The series will feature a different cast each episode. The first episode stars Lucas Hedges, Kaitlyn Dever, O’Shea Jackson Jr., George Wallace, Ed Asner, Brendan Francis Scannell, among others. The second episode stars Jon Bernthal, Boyd Holbrook, Amy Landecker, Beau Bridges, and more. Novak serves as executive producer and the series is produced by FX Productions. (produced by FXP)

Y: The Last Man
Y: The Last Man is a new FX drama series based on DC Comics’ acclaimed series of the same name by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. Y: The Last Man traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one cisgender man and his pet monkey. The series follows the survivors in this new world as they struggle with their efforts to restore what was lost and the opportunity to build something better. Eliza Clark serves as showrunner and an executive producer along with Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Mari Jo Winkler-Ioffreda, Vaughn and Melina Maksoukas. The series stars Diane Lane, Ashley Romans, Ben Schnetzer, Olivia Thirlby, Amber Tamblyn, Marin Ireland, Diana Bang, Elliot Fletcher and Juliana Canfield. The series is produced by FX Productions and will premiere exclusively on FX on Hulu. (produced by FXP)

New series in development include :

Reservation Dogs
Reservation Dogs, a new half hour comedy, coming-of-age story about four Native American teenagers growing up on a reservation in eastern Oklahoma who spend their days committing crimes… and fighting it. The series co-created by Sterlin Harjo, a Native American who also directed the pilot episode, and Academy Award-winner Taika Waititi (“JoJo Rabbit,” “What We Do in the Shadows”). The series stars D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai, Devery Jacobs, Paulina Alexis and Lane Factor. Reservation Dogs is executive produced by Sterlin Harjo, Taika Waititi and Garrett Basch. (produced by FXP)

Alien
FX is moving quickly to bring audiences the first television series based on one of the greatest sciencefiction horror classics ever made: “Alien.” Alien will be helmed by Fargo and Legion’s Noah Hawley stepping into the creator/executive producer chair, and FX is in advanced negotiations with Academy Award winner, Sir Ridley Scott—director of the first “Alien” film and the sequel, “Alien: Covenant”—to join the project as an Executive Producer. Set not too far into our future, it’s the first Alien story set on Earth—and by blending both the timeless horror of the first “Alien” film with the non-stop action of the second, it’s going to be a scary thrill ride that will blow people back in their seats. (produced by FXP)

Sh?gun
FX is embarking on one of the most sweeping, sophisticated and adult series FX has ever created—a retelling of James Clavell’s beloved epic saga, Sh?gun, set within the riveting and real Game of Thrones that was feudal Japan. It is adapted by Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo. Tim Van Patten, the highly decorated, award-winning producer of The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire, and the director of the pilot and early episodes of “Game of Thrones,” has signed on to bring this giant and visceral canvas to life. (produced by FXP)

(Source : press release)