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| AMERICAN HOSTAGE (MGM PLUS)
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DEVELOPMENT
HISTORY:
4/23/25
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STATUS:
currently in development (2024-2025 season) |
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to series |
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
eight episodes |
DESCRIPTION:
(from MGM's press release, April 2025) Today, premium linear channel and streaming service MGM+ announced it has ordered the original thrilling anthology series American Hostage (working title) from co-creator and executive producer Shawn Ryan (The Night Agent, S.W.A.T.) and co-creator and executive producer Eileen Myers (Big Love, Mad Dogs). The 8-episode gripping series produced by Sony Pictures Television will star Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning actor Jon Hamm in the role of Fred Heckman and will start production in Winnipeg, Canada this Fall. Sony Pictures Television will distribute the series internationally. Based on the acclaimed first season of the scripted podcast of the same name, American Hostage is a psychological thriller set in the 1970s that tells the harrowing true story of Fred Heckman (Hamm), a beloved Indianapolis radio reporter who is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker Tony Kiritsis demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program. |
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Jon Hamm as Fred Heckman
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CREW INFORMATION:
· Connie Tavel as EP
· Eileen Myers as CRTR/EP
· Gabriel Mason as EP
· Marney Hochman as EP
· Sharon Hoffman as EP
· Shawn Christensen as EP
· Shawn Ryan as CRTR/EP
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GENRE(S):
· drama
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· MiddKid Productions
· Sony Pictures Television
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