Thursday afternoon’s portion of the winter Television Critics Association press tour was largely devoted to channels that are part of the AMC Networks, including AMC and BBC America. This brought news of favorite returning series likeKilling Eveandand anticipated new ones like. Other TV news comes courtesy of HBO’s, Netflix’s, and Peacock, the new streaming service from NBCUniversal.Better Call SaulThe Walking Dead: World BeyondWatchmenMindhunter

BETTER SAY GOODBYE TOSAUL

?co-creatortold journalists during the show’s TCA panel that his andprequel has been renewed for a 13-episode season 6, which will also be the show’s last.Better Call SaulPeter GouldVince Gilligan’sBreaking Bad

But before we get to that, AMC still has to air its 10-episode season 5 ofSaul, which has a two-night premiere on February 23 and 24 and starsas the increasingly corrupt lawyer. Gould told journalists that he “would say this season is more kinetic” — to which co-starpiped up to say “violentis the word you’re looking for.” And whileBreaking Badstarsandwill not be in the fifth season ofSaul, Gould did confirm thatand?will be in episodes three and four this season, reprising theirBreaking Badcharacters of DEA agents Hank Schrader and Steven Gomez.Bob OdenkirkJonathan BanksBryan CranstonAaron PaulDean NorrisSteven Michael Quezada

So will Cranston and Paul ever appear on the show? After all, Paul’s Jesse Pinkman did introduce Cranston’s Walter White tocriminalattorney Saul Goodman.

Gould gave the traditional cagey answer that he would love to work with Cranston and Paul again.

TIME TO FEAST ON MORETHE WALKING DEAD

The brains at AMC have confirmed that the latest series infranchise,, will premiere April 12 after the season 10 finale of the originalTWD. The new series stars,,,,,, andand includes the following logline:Two sisters along with two friends leave a place of safety and comfort to brave dangers, known and unknown, living and undead on an important quest. Pursued by those who wish to protect them and those who wish to harm them, a tale of growing up and transformation unfurls across dangerous terrain, challenging everything they know about the world, themselves and each other. Some will become heroes.The Walking DeadThe Walking Dead: World BeyondAliyah RoyaleAlexa MansourAnnet MahendruNicolas CantuHal CumpstonNico TortorellaJulia Ormond

Other series and special premieres include IFC variety showhour-long “Black History Month Spectacular,” which will air this summer, and a promise that the third season of BBC America and AMC’swill be back in April. The fourth season of IFC’swill premiere March 18, and the second season of SundanceTV’sstarts April 8. AMC’s three-part cheating scandal miniseriesQuiz, which stars,, and, premieres May 25.Sherman’s ShowcaseKilling EveBrockmireLiarMichael SheenMatthew MacfadyenSian Clifford

Outside of TCA, CourtTV announced that it will airOJ25, a 37-week primetime series that chronologically follows all courtroom drama from the the O.J. Simpson murder case from start to verdict. The original true-crime series will begin airing on January 23, a day before the 25th anniversary of the trial’s start in 1995.

BAD NEWS FORWATCHMEN?FANS?

On Wednesday at TCA, HBO programming head Casey Bloys?that he’d be happy to do another season of cult hit?if creatorwas interested.statedWatchmenDamon Lindelof

It appears?that he is not.

Lindelof told?that he’s done telling the story he wants to tell, but he’s “given my blessing” to HBO if someone else were to take on another chapter.?Bloys, however, tweeted another report that?argues?that Lindelof has?all the time in the world?to come up with a season 2 idea.USA Today

'Watchmen' Season 2 Still A Possibility At HBO, Despite Reportsviahttps://t.co/FjvBIBD6Ul@decider

— Casey Bloys (@Caseybloys)January 17, 2020

ET TU,MINDHUNTER?

A?third season of Netflix’sis also uncertain, as the cast has been released from its contracts and executive producerseems preoccupied at the moment.MindhunterDavid Fincher

“David is focused on directing his first Netflix filmMankand on producing the second season of,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement to. “He may revisitMindhunteragain in the future, but in the meantime felt it wasn’t fair to the actors to hold them from seeking other work while he was exploring new work of his own.”Love, Death and RobotsEntertainment Weekly

Fincher’s filmtells the story of screenwriterwork on 1941film.MankHerman J. Mankiewicz’sOrson WellesCitizen Kane

PEACOCK SHAKES ITS TAIL FEATHER

Outside of the TCA ballroom, details were released about NBCUniversal’s soon-to-launch streaming service, Peacock. See all the details, including news of a newseries, in “.”Punky BrewsterEverything We Know About Peacock

COURTNEY B. VANCE JOINS AMC’S61ST STREET

’sis going back to the courtroom. The Emmy winner will star in61st Street, which is described as a “propulsive courtroom drama” about a black teenager who gets swept up in Chicago’s infamously corrupt criminal justice system.and Alana Mayo of Outlier Society are executive producing with a script from’s.American Crime StoryCourtney B. VanceMichael B. JordanThe Night OfPeter Moffat

Other casting news announced Thursday include that,,, andhave joined the cast of AMC’sSoulmates, a drama set in the near future that explore the concept of true love. The six-part anthology story is created by Will Bridges and premieres this summer.Charlie HeatonMalin AkermanBetsy BrandtJJ Feild

’swill narrate the documentaryShe Walks With Apesabout Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas. It will air April 22 on BBC America as part of the channel’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.Killing EveSandra Oh

AMC DEVELOPING SERIES WITH ILANA AND ELIOT GLAZER AND MORE

AMC Networks and AMC Studios also released a partial, but long, list of projects currently in development. They’re listed below.

AMC Networks Entertainment Group Development

More As This Story DevelopsProducers areand Wendy Walker.Logline:Inspired by?the friendship between Katie Couric and Wendy Walker, two young women begin?their careers in broadcast news in the ‘80s, charting the incredible moments in history that they?were able to be a part of.
Katie Couric

National AnthemWritten byand executive produced by. Music and lyrics are by Craig Finn and the music is produced by.Logline:A musical dramedy following?the Nordstrom Family who, after falling down the ladder of?American life, need to figure out what actually makes life worth living.
Scott Z. BurnsMark Johnson T-Bone Burnett

Sleeping BeautyWritten by, based on the novel by Owen and. Executive producers areandfor Sugar23?and the Kings.Logline:In a small Appalachian town, there’s a strange mystical occurrence that causes all the women to fall asleep, leaving the men to try and rescue them. But do the women want to be rescued?
Owen KingStephen KingMichael SugarAshley Zalta

BunnyMegan Mostyn Brown is writing based on the novel by Mona Awad.Logline:?A lonely student is drawn into a mysterious clique of girls called The Bunnies and begins to?partake in their strange off-campus ritual — conjuring boys from rabbits, where the good ones?stay as romantic partners and the bad ones are mercilessly axed.

PantheonA one-hour animated drama series written bybased on short stories by Ken?Liu,?award-winning sci-fi writer.?Silverstein is an executive producer. Titmouse will serve as the animation production company and is also producing a 10-minute animated short.Logline:In this animated drama set in a world where uploaded consciousness is not just science fiction, a young woman begins receiving messages from an unknown number that claims to be her?deceased father. Trying to uncover the truth, she stumbles upon a larger conspiracy involving?the singularity.
Craig Silverstein

Nigeria 2099will serve as writer. Mo Abudu and Heidi Uys of Nigeria’s EbonyLife TV will executive produce.Logline:Set in a futuristic world, NIGERIA 2099 tells the story of?Sgt. Charles Opkara, a local police officer in a poor district of Lagos. Assigned to protect a visiting American businessman staking?out his district, Sgt. Charles begins to unravel a global conspiracy over depleting resources.
Ahmadu Garba

SilverbirdAward-winning journalist and screenwriterwill serve as writer and executive producer. Harriet Gavshon and Tim Greene of South Africa’s Quizzical Pictures will executive produce.Logline:An Army veteran who needs to disappear in a hurry falls in with a ragtag collective of?mercenaries on their way to Africa with a dangerous and unusual mission: to protect the most?iconic animals on earth by entering into armed conflict with poachers. This provocative, fast-paced, one-hour drama follows the superhighways of wildlife trafficking, a $10 billion-per-year,?global enterprise of kingpins, corrupt governments and criminal syndicates, all of them?determined to cling to power and money at any cost.
Scott Gold

AMC Studios Development for Potential Sale to Content Companies

The SparrowBased on the science-fiction novel by Mary Doria Russell, executive produced by Mark Johnson withas director and executive producer.Logline:In the near future, humans on Earth receive their first evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life when a radio telescope picks up a strange signal, sounding like exquisite? music, from a distant planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible expedition, the Jesuit leadership quietly organizes an eight-person scientific mission of its own, comprised of a variety of disciplines and backgrounds.?What they find is a world so far?beyond comprehension that it will lead them to challenge the very notions of humanity and faith?itself.
Johan Renck

Fates and FuriesBased on the novel by Lauren Groff,Fates and Furiesis written and produced byand.Logline:An examination of a marriage and creative partnership,Fates and Furiesexplores two perspectives of a marriage, from the husband and the wife, and the truths and secrets that evolve?over 24 years.
Eliza ClarkZack Whedon

I Run Hotis the executive producer/writer and is attached to star.will executive produce and direct.Logline: I Run Hotfollows the unlikely friendship between Eliot, a gay curmudgeon who never quite fit in with the community, and Colton, a famous #instagay who can’t help but exemplify it.
Eliot GlazerIlana Glazer

Work It Outto executive produce and write.will executive produce and star.andof Semi-Formal Productions will executive produce with Showalter directing.Logline:It’s 1994 in Myrtle Beach, and Kayla Tate — a long-time?devotee and?aspiring?aerobics superstar — will do whatever it takes to?establish her workout empire in this darkly?comedic half-hour.
Becca GleasonAnna CampMichael ShowalterJordana Mollick
Jane Fonda

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