MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Ryan Reynolds has already taken Hollywood to Wrexham. Now the Welsh soccer team is on its way to Tinseltown. The club, which was down on its […]
WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Ryan Reynolds punched the air before turning to embrace Rob McElhenney as the Hollywood stars moved a big step closer to their dream of leading Welsh […]
For Wrexham’s Hollywood owners, the sequel proved to be a heartbreaker. The Welsh soccer club owned by celebrities Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney lost its FA Cup replay with Sheffield […]

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.

Through the first half of the year, there have been 357 total U.S. scripted originals across broadcast, cable and streaming — up 16% from last year’s record pace.

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?”

Donald Glover’s acclaimed series will premiere in March, nearly four years after it last aired.

There was a lot of advance hype for the FX series American Crime Story: Impeachment with Edie Falco as Hillary Clinton. But it won’t be available on any major streaming platform for another 10 months, and that’s a problem in 2021.

As the widely watched Britney Spears conservator case plays out, another documentary about the legal battle and its fallout launches tonight. FX and Hulu will premiere “Controlling Britney Spears,” a follow-up film from the team behind the Emmy-nominated “Framing Britney Spears.”