{"id":2335,"date":"2013-03-28T11:31:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T15:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2013-03-28T11:31:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T15:31:32","slug":"fx-greenlights-fargo-limited-series-lines-up-slew-of-event-series-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/03\/28\/fx-greenlights-fargo-limited-series-lines-up-slew-of-event-series-in-development\/","title":{"rendered":"FX Greenlights \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFargo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Limited Series, Lines Up Slew Of Event Series In Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/deadline\/img\/DH-TV_100x100_Final.jpg?resize=100%2C100\" style=\"float:left;padding:0 15px 15px 0\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Nellie Andreeva\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/09\/fx-teams-with-joel-ethan-coen-and-noah-hawley-for-series-adaptation-of-fargo\/fargo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-342779\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fargo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www-deadline-com.vimg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fargo__120924232113-275x154.jpg?resize=275%2C154\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"154\"><\/a><strong>UPDATED:<\/strong> FX has given the green light to the first limited series under the cable network\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s push in that programming area \u00e2\u20ac\u201d an adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/tag\/joel-coen\/\">Joel<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/tag\/ethan-coen\/\">Ethan Coen<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs 1996 comedic crime drama <em>Fargo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/03\/uk-television-tax-credit-begins-april-1\/sam-mendes-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-462750\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sam-Mendes\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www-deadline-com.vimg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Sam-Mendes__130327194413-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/08\/crime-drama-from-shawn-ryan-and-simon-mirren-lands-put-pilot-commitment-at-cbs\/shawnryan-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-156889\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"shawnryan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www-deadline-com.vimg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/shawnryan_20110812175937-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a>Additionally, FX president John Landgraf announced several high-profile limited\/miniseries projects in development as the genre will become a cornerstone for FX\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sibling FXM (Fox Movie Channel): <em>Grand Hotel<\/em> from Sam Mendes, about a fictional terrorist plot in Paris; <em>Sutton<\/em>, from Alexander Payne, about the infamous band robber and Michael De Luca; <em>Mad Dogs<\/em> from <em>The Shield<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs Shawn Ryan, based on the British black comedy\/psychological thriller miniseries; and <em>The Story Of Mayflower<\/em>, from producers Paul Giamatti and Gil Netter (<em>Life Of Pi<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The Coen brothers are exec producing<em> Fargo<\/em>, which was written\/executive produced by <em>The Unusuals<\/em> and <em>My Generation<\/em> creator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/tag\/noah-hawley\/\">Noah Hawley<\/a>. Warren Littlefield also executives the project, which will be co-produced by MGM Television and FX Prods. Production will begin in the winter for a spring debut. The <em>Fargo<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0movie starred Frances McDormand as a pregnant Minnesota police chief who follows the trail of two bumbling criminals (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) hired by a car salesman (William H. Macy) to kidnap his wife. The indie earned seven Oscar nominations, winning two statuettes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d for the Coen brothers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 script and McDormand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s performance. FX <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/09\/fx-teams-with-joel-ethan-coen-and-noah-hawley-for-series-adaptation-of-fargo\/\">put the project in development<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n<p>via Deadline.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/03\/fx-greenlights-fargo-limited-series\/\">http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/03\/fx-greenlights-fargo-limited-series\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED: FX has given the green light to the first limited series under the cable network\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s push in that programming area \u00e2\u20ac\u201d an adaptation of Joel and Ethan Coen\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs 1996 comedic crime drama Fargo. Additionally, FX president John Landgraf announced several high-profile limited\/miniseries projects in development as the genre will become a cornerstone for FX\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/03\/28\/fx-greenlights-fargo-limited-series-lines-up-slew-of-event-series-in-development\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FX Greenlights \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFargo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Limited Series, Lines Up Slew Of Event Series In Development&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[130,6,346],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-deadline-com","tag-ifttt","tag-nellie-andreeva"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-BF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}