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While The Bear is currently in production on Season 3, sources confirm to Variety that FX is already cooking up Season 4, which will film back to back with the third season. FX renewed the Chicago-set restaurant dramedy for Season 3 in November and has not announced a Season 4 renewal.

The cable network chairman’s prediction on the drop in scripted series is finally realized.

FX revealed its spring slate of new and returning series, including the second half of American Horror Story: Delicate, Welcome to Wrexham‘s third season, the new Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller The Veil, the documentary feature The New York Times Presents: Broken Horses and the limited series Clipped (formerly The Sterling Affairs).

Pete Hammond of Deadline on Fox’s broadcast of the awards show, its celebration of TV after the strike-induced delay, as well as his “severe case of déjà vu”: “It is as if in this vast TV universe of networks, streamers, cable, You Tube and more content that a human being could ever consume, the people who vote for awards have only seen three shows.”

HBO’s Succession and FX’s The Bear led all shows with six wins each, including Outstanding Drama and Comedy Series, respectively. Netflix’s Beef took five trophies including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. HBO’s now-wrapped Succession also was an Emmys force, with six big wins including its third for Outstanding Drama Series. Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook won Best Actor and Actress in a Drama, and Matthew Macfadyen went back-to-back in the Supporting Actor in a Drama category. It also won for Directing and Writing for a Drama Series.

Have we hit the peak of Peak TV? According to FX Research, which has been counting the number of shows on TV since it got into the scripted game with The Shield 20 years ago, there were 599 adult scripted original series across broadcast, cable and streaming services in 2022 — a new record.

Sets from Byron Bowers and Kate Berlant will debut on the streamer on Sept. 15.

FX’s Atlanta will kick off its fourth and final season on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 10 p.m. ET/PT and streaming the next day via Hulu. The premiere will include the first two episodes of the 10-episode final season.

Co-creator and executive producer Elgin James has also inked a new overall deal with Disney’s 20th TV, which producers the drama series.

The spy thriller starring Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow and Amy Brenneman has scored strong viewing over its first two weeks.

Jon Hamm is back in his prestige TV wheelhouse: The Mad Men veteran will star in the upcoming fifth season of Fargo, FX announced on Monday. Character details are sketchy at this point, but Hamm will play a character named Roy. Season 5 — which was officially announced back in February — will be set in the year 2019, with the official logline asking, “When is a kidnapping not a kidnapping, and what if your wife isn’t yours?”

The third iteration of the XFL has found a TV home. The league and Disney have struck a global rights deal that will see all XFL regular season and playoff games running on ESPN, ABC and — in its first sports rights deal since becoming part of Disney — FX. The spring football league is set to begin play in 2023.

FX CEO John Landgraf revealed Thursday during his time at the Television Critics Association’s (virtual) winter press tour that the previously announced fourth season of Donald Glover’s Emmy-winning comedy will be its last. Landgraf said the final two seasons have already been filmed.

FX has renewed its critically acclaimed series Fargo for a fifth season — and it will be set in 2019. Set in the year before the pandemic, Season 5 from creator Noah Hawley and exec producer Warren Littlefield is being teased with the following questions: “When is a kidnapping not a kidnapping, and what if your wife isn’t yours?”