{"id":8881,"date":"2018-07-30T10:17:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T14:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/amc-greenlights-anthology-series-jason-segel\/"},"modified":"2020-04-16T16:50:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T20:50:41","slug":"amc-greenlights-anthology-series-from-jason-segel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/amc-greenlights-anthology-series-from-jason-segel\/","title":{"rendered":"AMC Greenlights Anthology Series from Jason Segel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMC has greenlit a new original anthology series, <em>Dispatches From Elsewhere<\/em>, created by and starring Jason Segel, which is one of several new projects unveiled at AMC Networks&#8217; TCA presentation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dispatches From Elsewhere<\/em> is about a group of ordinary people who stumble onto a puzzle hiding just behind the veil of everyday life. They will come to find that the mystery winds far deeper than they ever imagined. The hour-long anthology series will include viewer engagement elements across multiple media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>AMC has set premiere dates for the global thriller <em>The Little Drummer Girl<\/em>, based on John le Carr\u00e9\u2019s best-selling book of the same name, and <em>AMC Visionaries: Eli Roth\u2019s History of Horror<\/em>, for late-night fright fans. The six-part miniseries <em>The Little Drummer Girl<\/em> is launching this November. <em>AMC Visionaries: Eli Roth\u2019s History of Horror<\/em> premieres on October 14.<\/p>\n<p>The network also renewed a slate of popular series. <em>Better Call Saul<\/em> and <em>Fear the Walking Dead<\/em> are now set for their fifth seasons, while <em>McMafia<\/em> will head into its second season.<\/p>\n<p>Sundance Now, AMC Networks\u2019 direct-to-consumer SVOD service, is expanding its content offerings to include podcasts, beginning with its first-ever scripted podcast, <em>Exeter<\/em>. Created by Ronnie Gunter (<em>Lighter<\/em>) and starring Jeanne Tripplehorn (<em>Big Love<\/em>, <em>Grey Gardens<\/em>) and Ray McKinnon (<em>Rectify<\/em>, <em>Sons of Anarchy<\/em>, <em>Deadwood<\/em>), <em>Exeter<\/em> will premiere on the service in September. The crime mystery follows a veteran detective, Colleen Clayton, as she is forced to reconcile the errors of a past case when a woman she convicted of murder is exonerated after ten years in prison. The six-episode podcast series will be further brought to life with dynamic captioning\u2014also known as &#8220;kinetic typography&#8221;\u2014a process by which words and phrases in the character\u2019s dialogue are animated to underscore emotion and heighten tension. This marks the first time this process has been utilized for a scripted dramatic podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Sundance Now has also lined up <em>Dead Lucky<\/em>, starring Rachel Griffiths (<em>Six Feet Und<\/em>er) and Yoson An (<em>Grace<\/em>, <em>Crouching Tiger<\/em>, <em>Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny<\/em>); <em>54 Hours<\/em>, based on a true story of an armed bank robbery gone awry in 1988; and the fourth season of <em>The Bureau<\/em>, a French-language spy thriller. The psychological thriller <em>The Cry<\/em>, based on Helen Fitzgerald\u2019s best-selling book of the same name, is coming to the streaming service. It stars Jenna Coleman (<em>Victoria<\/em>, <em>Doctor Who<\/em>) and Ewen Leslie (<em>Top of the Lake: China Girl<\/em>). <em>Cheat<\/em>, produced by Harry and Jack Williams (<em>The Missing<\/em>, <em>Liar<\/em>), joins the roster as well.<\/p>\n<p>SundanceTV&#8217;s upcoming highlights include the October 25 launch of\u00a0<em>Deutschland 86<\/em>, and the docuseries<em> Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle<\/em>, debuting with a two-night special event starting November 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMC has greenlit a new original anthology series, Dispatches From Elsewhere, created by and starring Jason Segel, which is one of several new projects unveiled at AMC Networks&#8217; TCA presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[306,1315,987],"class_list":["post-8881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-amc","tag-sundance-now","tag-sundancetv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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