Tag: FX (TV Network)

Hollywood Made 14% Fewer Shows in 2023, Marking the End of Peak TV

It’s official: Peak TV has peaked. Last year, 516 scripted television series aired or streamed in the United States, a 14 percent decline from 2022, the FX cable network said on Friday. That was only the second drop in at least 15 years, and the biggest, according to FX’s research. The total is the most […]

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‘Ally McBeal’ Star Calista Flockhart Returns to TV

Harrison: “I saw this lady. I asked my agent: ‘Wow! Who’s that girl?’ He said, ‘That’s Calista Flockhart.’ I said, ‘Oh, what does she do?’ He says, ‘She’s Ally McBeal.’ I hadn’t really seen it. I said, ‘Well, could you introduce us?’ He said, ‘Yes.’” Calista: “Harrison came over to say hi. When he left, […]

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‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans’ Looks Back at a Notorious Social Exile

In 1979, five years before he died and four years after his exile from the Upper East Side’s social cockpit, Truman Capote appeared on a talk show as a friend of the common man. The host, David Susskind, remained unpersuaded. “You are always on people’s yachts” and in “great mansions on Long Island,” he pointed […]

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The Cast of ‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans’ Celebrates Their Premiere at the Plaza

On Tuesday night, actresses, producers and television executives, many draped in black and white feathered gowns, trickled into the Plaza Hotel to celebrate the premiere of FX’s “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” a limited series starting on Jan. 31. The show focuses on the schism between the novelist Truman Capote, played by Tom Hollander, and […]

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‘Reservation Dogs’ Was a Coming-of-All-Ages Masterpiece

Where do you find enlightenment? In a meditation room? On a solitary mountaintop? The series finale of “Reservation Dogs,” FX’s astonishing series about Native teens and elders in rural Oklahoma, dispenses a great truth of life from a prison vending machine. Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis), despondent over the death of Old Man Fixico (Richard Ray […]

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