As Several Shows Come To An End, FX’s John Landgraf Is “Sweating Bullets” Hunting For New Hits
deadline.comFX is about to enter a new era. The network is grappling with how to replace a number of its long-running hits including Snowfall, Mayans M.C., What We Do In The Shadows, Reservation Dogs, Archer and Dave.
As such, John Landgraf, Chairman of FX Content & FX Productions, is “sweating bullets” as he and his team search for new series to replace these shows. “There was a time when you had these time slots and something was going in that time slot, it might be good, it might be bad, but it wasn’t going to be a color bar in that timeslot.
Now if we put things on the air or on streaming that are bad, it tarnishes 20 years of hard work we’ve done to try to create a brand that’s synonymous with quality,” he told Deadline. “We have critical needs, but we have to fill them with things that are worth being successors to the past 20 years of shows that we just made.
I’m sweating bullets, to be honest with you, because the truth is, you never know. Obviously you wouldn’t pick something up or you wouldn’t make something if you didn’t think it could be good.
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