or


[08/06/19 - 04:16 PM]
FX Orders Third Installment of American Crime Story Franchise "Impeachment: American Crime Story"
The latest edition stars Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp, Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky, and Annaleigh Ashford as Paula Jones.

[via press release from FX]

FX Orders Third Installment of American Crime Story Franchise "Impeachment: American Crime Story"

Premieres on Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 10:00 PM ET/PT on FX

Saga of the Clinton Presidency Scandal and Impeachment Stars Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp, Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky, and Annaleigh Ashford as Paula Jones

From Writer Sarah Burgess Who Will Also Serve as Executive Producer Alongside the Emmy(R) and Golden Globe(R) Award Winning ACS Team of Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Brad Falchuk, Larry Karaszewski, Scott Alexander, Alexis Martin Woodall and Sarah Paulson

Monica Lewinsky Will Serve as Producer

Henrietta Conrad and Jemima Khan Will Also Serve as Producers

Production Begins in February from Fox 21 Television Studios and FX Productions

BEVERLY HILLS, August 6, 2019 - FX's award-winning and critically acclaimed hit limited series franchise American Crime Story will return next year with its third installment, Impeachment: American Crime Story, it was announced today by John Landgraf, Chairman, FX Networks and FX Productions.

Production of the series from Fox 21 Television Studios and FX Production begins in February and it will premiere on Sunday, September 27, 2020 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on FX.

Written by Sarah Burgess, Impeachment: American Crime Story unravels the national scandal that swept up Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp as principal characters in the country's first impeachment proceedings in over a century.

"FX's American Crime Story franchise has become a cultural touchstone, providing greater context for stories that deserve greater understanding like the O.J. Simpson trial and saga, and Andrew Cunanan's tragic crime spree which concluded with the assassination of Gianni Versace," said Landgraf. "This franchise re-examines some of the most complicated, polarizing stories in recent history in a way that is relevant, nuanced and entertaining.

"Impeachment: American Crime Story will likewise explore the overlooked dimensions of the women who found themselves caught up in the scandal and political war that cast a long shadow over the Clinton Presidency. We are grateful to Sarah Burgess for her brilliant adaptation, as well as Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Brad Falchuk, Larry Karaszewski, Scott Alexander, Alexis Martin Woodall, Sarah Paulson and the rest of the creative team and cast."

Impeachment: American Crime Story features a stellar cast starring Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp, Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky, and Annaleigh Ashford as Paula Jones.

The third installment will be written by Sarah Burgess who is also Executive Producer alongside Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Brad Falchuk, Larry Karaszewski, Scott Alexander. Alexis Martin Woodall and Sarah Paulson. Monica Lewinsky will serve as Producer. Henrietta Conrad and Jemima Khan will also serve as producers. The limited series is based on Jeffrey Toobin's bestselling book A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President.

American Crime Story is one of television's most acclaimed and award-winning limited series franchises. The first installment of ACS, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, received 22 Emmy Award nominations and it won nine Emmys. It also won the Golden Globe, BAFTA, AFI, PGA, WGA awards and it won the TCA awards for 2016 Program of the Year. The second installment, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story was nominated for 19 Emmy Awards and won seven including Outstanding Limited Series. Versace also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Limited Series, and AFI, TCA and PGA awards.

Award-winning actress Sarah Paulson has built an impressive list of credits in film, television and on stage. Among the most recent are M. Night Shyamalan's thriller Glass, Susanne Bier's Bird Box and Warner Bros.' Ocean's 8. She's also currently producing and starring in an upcoming series titled Ratched, which centers on the early life of the villainous nurse from the 1962 Ken Kesey novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Previously, Paulson garnered attention and multiple awards for her portrayal of Marcia Clark in FX's critically acclaimed miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, not to mention for her multiple roles in Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story franchise, also for FX. In film, she has appeared in numerous projects including 12 Years a Slave, which received an Academy Award(R) for Best Picture, and Jeff Nichols' Mud alongside Reese Witherspoon and Matthew McConaughey, for which the cast received the Robert Altman Award at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Paulson's stage credits include Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize winning play Talley's Folly and Broadway's Collected Stories and The Glass Menagerie to name just a few. Paulson is represented by Hylda Queally at CAA.

Beanie Feldstein received critical acclaim for her performance as "Julie Steffans" opposite Saoirse Ronan in Greta Gerwig's Golden Globe(R) winning and Oscar(R) nominated debut, Lady Bird. For their outstanding performances, the cast was nominated for the 2017 Best Ensemble at the SAG Awards. In the same year, Feldstein received recognition for her Broadway debut portraying "Minnie Fay" in the smash hit musical Hello, Dolly! which won the 2017 Tony(R) Award for "Best Revival of a Musical." For that role, Feldstein received the Breakthrough Award at the Lilly Awards honoring three standout female Broadway debuts of the season. Most recently, she starred in the critically acclaimed FX comedy What We Do in the Shadows and the feature film Booksmart. She will next be seen in Caitlin Moran's comedic coming of age story, How to Build a Girl. Feldstein is represented by Sharon Jackson & Andrew Dunlap at WME and Stacy O'Neil at Brillstein.

Annaleigh Ashford is an acclaimed and award-winning feature film, television and theater actor. Ashford most recently appeared in FX's The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, as well as God Friended Me and the ABC television movie Three Rivers. She also starred in Masters of Sex as "Betty DiMello" and appeared in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Smash, Nurse Jackie and The Big C. On feature projects, Ashford appeared in Unicorn Store and Frozen as well as Top Five, Rachel Getting Married and Sex and the City. Ashford won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for her portrayal of "Essie" in You Can't Take It With You on Broadway. She has also appeared as Sylvia in Sylvia, Lauren in Kinky Boots, Glinda in Wicked, Jeannie in Hair, and Margot in Legally Blonde the Musical. Ashford also appeared in the acclaimed solo show Annaleigh Ashford: Lost in the Stars Live at 54 Below. Ashford is represented by Toni Howard, Dar Rollins, & Adam Schweitzer at ICM and Beth Rosner at Beth Rosner Management.

About FX

FX is the flagship general entertainment basic cable channel of FX Networks. Launched in June of 1994, FX is carried in 87 million homes. The diverse schedule features a growing roster of critically-acclaimed and award-winning hit dramas series including Taboo, Legion, Snowfall, Trust, Pose, Mayans M.C. and the upcoming Y; the critically-acclaimed limited series American Horror Story, Fargo, American Crime Story, FEUD, Fosse/Verdon and the upcoming Devs, Shogun, Mrs. America and A Teacher; acclaimed hit comedy series including Atlanta, Baskets, Better Things, What We Do in the Shadows and the upcoming Breeders; the half-hour series Mr Inbetween; the upcoming docuseries The Weekly with The New York Times; and the upcoming special A Christmas Carol. FX is the former home of the critically-acclaimed and award-winning hit drama series The Shield, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, Damages, Sons of Anarchy, Justified and The Americans. The network's library of acquired box-office hit movies is unmatched by any ad-supported television network.

About Fox 21 Television Studios

Fox 21 Television Studios, a division of Disney Television Studios, is devoted to making creatively ambitious scripted and unscripted series for all distribution platforms. Fox 21 Television Studios is responsible for the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning sensation from Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (with FX Productions), as well as its follow-up The Assassination of Gianni Versace which also won the Emmy and Golden Globe for Outstanding Limited Series; the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Homeland, starring Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin which enters its eighth and final season this year; the Emmy-nominated Fosse/Verdon from award-winning producers Thomas Kail, Steven Levenson, Joel Fields and Lin-Manuel Miranda and starring Oscar winner Sam Rockwell and Golden Globe winner Michelle Williams; the blockbuster Sons of Anarchy as well as its follow-up Mayans M.C. from co-creators Kurt Sutter and Elgin James; Queen of the South, executive produced by David T. Friendly, Dailyn Rodriguez and Benjamin Daniel Lobato; the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Pose from Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Steven Canals, Janet Mock, Alexis Martin Woodall and Sherry Marsh; The Hot Zone based on Richard Preston's international best-seller for Nat Geo starring Emmy winner Juliana Margulies; and the Emmy-nominated Genius: Einstein and its follow-up Genius: Picasso. Upcoming series include The Politician from Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan and starring Tony-winner Ben Platt and Oscar winners Gwyneth Paltrow and Jessica Lange and Ryan Murphy's Ratched starring Golden Globe and Emmy winner Sarah Paulson in the title role. Fox 21 Television Studios shows have amassed a collective 120 Emmy nominations and 29 Emmy wins, as well as multiple Golden Globes, Humanitas Prizes and Peabody Awards. Disney Television Studios is a collection of studios comprised of 20th Century Fox Television, ABC Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios. DTS produces the most award-winning, culture-defining programming for all platforms including This Is Us, Grey's Anatomy, Homeland, Modern Family, black-ish, Fosse/Verdon, American Horror Story and Marvel's Cloak & Dagger. Disney Television Studios currently produces 69 series across 16 broadcast, cable, digital and international platforms. Its programming now reaches more than a billion people every day across the world; in as many as 180 countries, across six continents, in 30 different languages.





  [august 2019]  
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
    


· AMERICAN CRIME STORY (FX)





[10/03/25 - 02:17 PM]
ESPN's Record-Setting '25 MLB Wild Card Series
Across eight games, the MLB Wild Card Series is averaging 4.4 million viewers, up 65% from last year.

[10/03/25 - 12:37 PM]
BET+ Sets October 23 Premiere for "Carl Weber's The Family Business" Season 6
The 10-episode season will premiere with two episodes, followed by one episode weekly, with the finale on Thursday, December 18.

[10/03/25 - 12:07 PM]
"Dancing with the Stars" Continues to Shatter Records - Growing Two Weeks in a Row Since Season Premiere for First Time Since 2005
Plus: "High Potential" hit a season high in Total Viewers (4.24 million), growing by double digits over the show's comparable third episode from last fall.

[10/03/25 - 10:57 AM]
Legends, Champions and Icons of October Highlight FOX Sports' Postseason Broadcaster Lineup
FOX Sports begins its Postseason coverage Saturday, October 4 at 4:00 PM ET on FOX, FOX Deportes, the FOX Sports App and FOX One as the New York Yankees face the Toronto Blue Jays.

[10/03/25 - 10:05 AM]
All-New Season of "Gold Rush" Returns with High-Stake Risks and Land Fury on Friday, November 7 at 8PM ET/PT on Discovery
With only a few short months to mine, top bosses and rising underdogs collide in a race to claim new ground, move more dirt, and strike it rich.

[10/03/25 - 09:12 AM]
FOX Nation Secures Exclusive U.S. Rights to Docuseries "Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar"
The acclaimed series will make its anticipated U.S. debut on FOX Nation on Monday, October 6.

[10/03/25 - 08:02 AM]
TNT Sports to Be Exclusive Home of 2025 NLDS & NLCS
Both best-of-five NLDS series begin Saturday, October 4.

[10/03/25 - 08:01 AM]
TNT Sports Sets BIG EAST Men's College Basketball Schedule for Inaugural 2025-26 Season
TNT Sports' regular season BIG EAST men's basketball schedule will feature 40 appearances by St. John's, UConn, Creighton, Xavier, and Marquette, programs that each clinched berths in last season's NCAA Men's Tournament.

[10/03/25 - 07:01 AM]
Video: "27 Nights" - Official Trailer - Netflix
When a woman is admitted by her daughters to a psychiatric clinic for her carefree ways, an expert must judge if she is ill or simply wants to enjoy life.

[10/03/25 - 04:01 AM]
Video: "Steve" - Official Trailer #2 - Netflix
Over one intense day, the devoted head teacher of a last-chance reform school strives to keep his students in line while facing pressures of his own.

[10/03/25 - 03:02 AM]
Miguel Herran Will Play Poli Diaz in "El Porto the Vallecas," the New Film by Daniel Calparsoro for Netflix
Inspired by true events, the film follows the life of Policarpo "Poli" Díaz (Miguel Herrán), a young man from Vallecas who, despite a childhood marked by poverty and family violence, became a boxing legend in 1980s Spain, even fighting for the world lightweight title.

[10/03/25 - 03:01 AM]
Netflix Honors Jane Goodall with Posthumous Release of "Famous Last Words" Docuseries Following Her Passing
The series showcases reflective interviews with some of the world's most influential cultural figures, who agreed to sit down and discuss their legacy, and give their final words, with the understanding that it would only be shared with the world after they passed.

[10/02/25 - 04:09 PM]
ESPN Delivers the Most-Watched WNBA Semifinals Ever
Game 5 between the Indiana Fever and the Las Vegas Aces averaged 1.8 million viewers, peaking at 2.1 million.

[10/02/25 - 03:01 PM]
Video: "Twisted Wonderland" - Trailer - Disney+
Your favorite villains reimagined in ways you've never dared to dream.

[10/02/25 - 02:51 PM]
ESPN's Record-Setting Day One of MLB Wild Card Series
Coverage of Red Sox versus Yankees averaged 6.5 million viewers, peaking at 9.9 million.