{"id":7173,"date":"2017-01-11T10:44:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T15:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/coen-brothers-to-write-direct-tv-western\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T13:27:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T18:27:51","slug":"coen-brothers-to-write-direct-tv-western","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/coen-brothers-to-write-direct-tv-western\/","title":{"rendered":"Coen Brothers to Write &#038; Direct TV Western"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Joel and Ethan Coen are working with Annapurna Television\u00a0on\u00a0<em>The Ballad of Buster Scruggs<\/em>,\u00a0a Western anthology series.<\/p>\n<p>The Coen brothers wrote the script and will direct and produce the project, which marks their first for TV, through their Mike Zoss Productions banner. Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle, Annapurna\u2019s president of television, will serve as executive producers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very excited to be working with Megan and Sue on this project,\u201d Joel and Ethan Coen said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers have worked in the Western genre before for the big screen, with\u00a0<em>No Country for Old Men <\/em>and the <em>True Grit <\/em>remake. While their movie <em>Fargo<\/em> was done as a series for FX, this new project will mark the first they&#8217;ve created for TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: Joel and Ethan Coen are working with Annapurna Television on The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a Western anthology series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1593],"class_list":["post-7173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-annapurna-television","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Coen Brothers to Write &amp; Direct TV Western - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/coen-brothers-to-write-direct-tv-western\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coen Brothers to Write &amp; 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