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MGM+ has ordered the anthology series American Hostage (w.t.) from co-creator and executive producer Shawn Ryan (The Night Agent, S.W.A.T.) and co-creator and executive producer Eileen Myers (Big Love, Mad Dogs).
The eight-episode series is set to begin production in Winnipeg, Canada, this fall, with Jon Hamm on board to star. Based on the first season of the podcast of the same name, American Hostage is set in the 1970s and follows as a radio reporter is taken hostage by someone demanding to be on his show.
Hamm will also serve as an executive producer on the Sony Pictures Television series alongside Ryan, Myers, Connie Tavel, Sharon Hoffman and Ryan’s MiddKid Productions partner, Marney Hochman. “The combination of prolific producers Shawn Ryan and Eileen Myers, a singular talent like Jon Hamm, and our partners at Sony Pictures Television, is a match made in MGM+ heaven,” said Michael Wright, head of MGM+. “This is a fascinating story about real people engaged in a real-time life-or-death struggle to keep a desperate hostage situation from spinning out of control, and I can’t think of a more gifted actor on whom to center the story than Jon.”
“We couldn’t be more grateful to be making this show with our valued partners—MGM+, Shawn Ryan, Eileen Myers and Jon Hamm,” said Katherine Pope, president of Sony Pictures Television Studios. “An exploration of quiet heroism, American Hostage shines a light on our culture, revealing truths that still strongly resonate.”
