Anna Fishko: Celebs Rumors

There’s even more programming in store for this year’s ATX TV Festival.

AMC Networks has set a summer premiere date for the Krysten Ritter-led Orphan Black: Echoes, an original series set in the world of Orphan Black. The spinoff will premiere Sunday, June 23 on AMC, AMC+ and BBC America.

Back in the salad days of “Peak TV” between 2011 and 2016, an iconic series seemed to debut every other month. Of the many shows that spawned passionate followings, the Canadian sci-fi biopunk series “Orphan Black” proved to be among the most prescient.

EXCLUSIVE: Bodyguard and Line of Duty star Keeley Hawes has been tapped as a co-lead opposite Krysten Ritter in Orphan Black: Echoes, the upcoming offshoot series set in the world of Orphan Black, which is slated for a 2023 debut on AMC Networks’ digital platform AMC+ and linear nets.

EXCLUSIVE: Newcomer Amanda Fix (Kung Fu) and Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) are set as leads opposite Krysten Ritter in Orphan Black: Echoes, the upcoming offshoot series set in the world of Orphan Black, which is slated for a 2023 debut on AMC Networks’ digital platform AMC+ and linear nets.

“Orphan Black” may have ended its run, but the critically acclaimed fan-favourite series will be spawning a brand new saga set within the same world.

series, will also return as executive producers on the new series. “We started our journey down the ‘Orphan Black’ rabbit hole when Sarah Manning watched Beth Childs inexplicably jump in front of an oncoming train.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAMC has officially ordered a followup to “Orphan Black,” Variety has learned.Titled “Orphan Black: Echoes,” the new series is set in the near future and takes a deep dive into the exploration of the scientific manipulation of human existence. It follows a group of women as they weave their way into each other’s lives and embark on a journey, unravelling the mystery of their identity and uncovering a story of love and betrayal.AMC has given the show a 10-episode order.

Orphan Black sequel series is officially in the works at AMC.The project, which was first reported in 2019, has found its writer with the writers’ room now having opened for the forthcoming show.Orphan Black ran from 2013 to 2017, with Tatiana Maslany playing a woman named Sarah and her “cloned sisters” in a present-day science-fiction thriller.According to Variety, Anna Fishko has joined the project to write and executive produce the series although plot details remain under wraps at the time of writing.It remains unclear whether Maslany will reprise her roles for the project, while it’s been confirmed that it will be a sequel set in the same universe (as opposed to a reboot).Meanwhile, Maslany was cast in the lead role of Marvel’s spin-off series She-Hulk at Disney+ in 2020.She will play Jennifer Walters, cousin of Bruce Banner, who inherits Banner’s Hulk powers via a blood transfusion, and is said to keep the character’s “personality, intelligence and emotional control”.The series will be directed by Kat Coiro, who will also act as executive producer. Jessica Gao will write the series and also act as the show’s executive producer and showrunner.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe new “Orphan Black” series in the works at AMC has found its writer.Variety has learned exclusively that Anna Fishko is onboard to write and executive produce the potential new iteration of the series, which was first reported as being in the works back in 2019. A writers’ room for the project is now open, though exact plot details remain under wraps.It is known, however, that the project is not a reboot of the original show, but rather a new story set in the same world.