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Stephen Glover Signs Overall Deal with FX Productions
Award-Winning Writer and Producer on FX's Atlanta and
On The Upcoming Untitled Marvel's Deadpool Animated Series
To Develop New Television Projects for FX Networks and Other Outlets
LOS ANGELES, December 6, 2017 - Stephen Glover has signed an exclusive overall production deal with FX Productions, it was announced today by Eric Schrier and Nick Grad, Presidents of Original Programming for FX Networks and FX Productions. Glover, the award-winning writer and producer on the breakout hit comedy series Atlanta and on the upcoming Untitled Marvel's Deadpool animated series, will develop television series for FX Networks and other outlets.
"We can't wait to build on the success Stephen's achieved as a writer and producer." Schrier said. "We appreciate everything Stephen has done to make Atlanta one of the best comedies on TV, taking an even bigger role with his brother Donald on the untitled Marvel's Deadpool animated series, and now creating his own projects with the same uncompromising artistry."
Glover is a writer and producer on FX's Atlanta, as well as a writer and producer on the upcoming Untitled Marvel's Deadpool animated series coming to FXX in 2018. Glover won two WGA Awards for the first season of Atlanta (Comedy Series, New Comedy) and was nominated for an Emmy(R) Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for Atlanta. Atlanta, which will return to FX in 2018, additionally won two Emmy Awards as well as two Golden Globe(R) Awards and AFI, Peabody, TCA, NAACP and Critics' Choice Awards.
Glover is represented by WME and Lev Ginsburg.
ABOUT FX PRODUCTIONS
FX Productions (FXP) produces FX's acclaimed and award-winning comedy series Baskets, Better Things and Atlanta; the drama series Snowfall; the upcoming limited series Trust; and the FXX comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Archer, and You're the Worst. FXP co-produces the drama series The Americans, Taboo and Legion; the limited series Fargo and American Crime Story, and the upcoming untitled Marvel's Deadpool animated comedy series. In 2017, FX Networks series produced or co-produced by FXP received 32 Emmy(R) Award nominations, after having won 16 Emmys the previous year, including Outstanding Limited Series (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story) and Outstanding Animated Program (Archer).
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