FX Orders an Additional Season of Its Emmy(R) and Golden Globe Award(R) Winning Hit Comedy Series "Atlanta"

FX Orders an Additional Season of Its Emmy(R) and Golden Globe Award(R) Winning Hit Comedy Series "Atlanta"
Production of seasons three (previously ordered) and four - both eight episodes each - are scheduled to begin next spring.

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[via press release from FX] FX ORDERS AN ADDITIONAL SEASON OF ITS EMMY(R) AND GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD(R) WINNING HIT COMEDY SERIES "Atlanta"

Production of Seasons 3 and 4 Begins Next Spring
LOS ANGELES, August 6, 2019 - FX has ordered a fourth season of its Emmy(R) and Golden Globe(R) award winning hit comedy series Atlanta, it was announced today by Eric Schrier, President, FX Entertainment. Production of seasons three (previously ordered on 6/7/18) and four - both eight episodes each - are scheduled to begin next spring.

"What more can be said about Atlanta than the critical acclaim and accolades that Donald, Paul, Dianne, Stephen and Hiro have earned for two exceptional seasons of what is clearly one of the best shows on television," said Schrier. "This group of collaborators and cast have created one of the most original, innovative stories of this generation and we are proud to be their partners."
Created by Donald Glover, Atlanta is executive produced by Glover, Paul Simms, Dianne McGunigle, Stephen Glover and Hiro Murai. Atlanta is produced by FX Productions.
Through its first two seasons, Atlanta has won five Emmy(R) Awards as well as two Golden Globe(R) Awards, two AFI awards, Peabody, PGA, WGA, TCA, NAACP and Critics' Choice Awards.
The second season, Atlanta Robbin' Season, was hailed as the best show on television. In Atlanta Robbin' Season, two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families. "Earn Marks" (Donald Glover) is a young manager trying to get his cousin's career off the ground. "Alfred Miles" (Brian Tyree Henry) is a new hot rapper trying to understand the line between real life and street life. "Darius" (Lakeith Stanfield) is Alfred's right-hand man and visionary. "Van" (Zazie Beetz) is Earn's best friend and the mother of Earn's daughter.
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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. 

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FX Orders Season 3 of "Atlanta" - Acclaimed and Award-Winning Series Returns to FX in 2019

FX Orders Season 3 of "Atlanta" - Acclaimed and Award-Winning Series Returns to FX in 2019
"'Atlanta' is phenomenal, achieving and exceeding what few television series have done," said Nick Grad.

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[via press release from FX] FX Orders Season 3 of "Atlanta"
Acclaimed and Award-Winning Series Returns to FX In 2019
"The Best Show on TV" - Rolling Stone
"The Funniest and Smartest Show in a Generation" - Esquire
"Atlanta is Inarguably One of the Best, Most Innovative Shows Currently Being Made" - The Atlantic

LOS ANGELES, June 7, 2018 - FX has ordered a third season of the critically-acclaimed and award-winning comedy series Atlanta, it was announced today by Nick Grad and Eric Schrier, the presidents of original programming for FX Networks and FX Productions.

Created by Donald Glover, Atlanta is executive produced by Glover, Paul Simms, Dianne McGunigle, Stephen Glover and Hiro Murai. Atlanta is produced by FX Productions.
"Atlanta is phenomenal, achieving and exceeding what few television series have done," said Grad. "With Atlanta Robbin' Season, Donald and his collaborators elevated the series to even greater heights, building on the enormous success of their award-winning first season. We're grateful to the producers and our extraordinary cast and crew for achieving this level of excellence, and we share the excitement with our audience about the third season knowing they will continue to take us to unexpected and thrilling places."

The premiere of Atlanta Robbin' Season, the latest chapter in the Emmy(R) Award-winning comedy series, nabbed the best ratings of any recent basic cable comedy. The first season of Atlanta won two Emmy(R) Awards as well as two Golden Globe(R) Awards and AFI, Peabody, PGA, WGA, TCA, NAACP and Critics' Choice Awards.

In the recently concluded Atlanta Robbin' Season, two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families. "Earn Marks" (Donald Glover) is a young manager trying to get his cousin's career off the ground. "Alfred Miles" (Brian Tyree Henry) is a new hot rapper trying to understand the line between real life and street life. "Darius" (Lakeith Lee Stanfield) is Alfred's right-hand man and visionary. "Van" (Zazie Beetz) is Earn's best friend and the mother of Earn's daughter.

Atlanta Robbin' Season has drawn tremendous critical acclaim, including:
"Atlanta is inarguably one of the best, most innovative shows currently being made... The long-awaited second season of Atlanta is as surreal and ingenious as the first... The second season of the brilliant FX show explores the tension and the weirdness of dreams coming true... "

· Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic (3/1/18)
"one of the best TV shows period"
· Danette Chavez, AV Club (5/11/18)
"one of the most compelling and hilarious shows on television"
· Business Insider, Carrie Wittmer (5/5/18)
"One of TV's Best... .we should feel fortunate to have gotten the two seasons of Atlanta that we have... . [Atlanta's] fascinating, revealing, hilarious, emotional, smart, meaningful, and inventive... ."
· Alison Keene, Collider (5/11/18)
"[Robbin' Season] has had some of the most compelling and thought-provoking storytelling and next-level excellence in acting on television, and it just keeps getting better."
· Christina Radish, Collider (4/26/18)
"????? - Excellent... A superb return... damn funny... fantastic cast... sharp and insightful... "
· Allison Keene, Collider (2/19/18)
"In a rare move for any series in this era of exceptional television, Atlanta has gotten better with age - and I thought the first season was pretty damn great... it would be crime not to watch this piece of American artistry that is often weird, startling, weary, witty but almost always wonderful... "
· Dominic Patten, Deadline (2/28/18)
"Grade A... The ecstatic pleasure of Atlanta is how it grounds nigh-Lynchian strangeness in addictive specificity: stylish visuals, fully realized characters, a feeling for the modern African American experience as a multiverse of tones and possibilities... And if Atlanta were just a comedy about modern hip-hop celebrity, it would be a hilarious wonder."
· Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly (2/16/17)
"Throughout its groundbreaking second season, Atlanta has done some unbelievable things... . Donald Glover has told some insightful stories about poverty, the black experience, the music industry, and racism"
· Matt Miller, Esquire.com (5/4/18)
"The funniest and smartest show in a generation... People like Donald Glover aren't supposed to exist; Shows like Atlanta aren't supposed to get made... One of the most powerful and influential individuals in town... A legend in the making... Once-in-a-generation originality"
· Bijan Stephen, Esquire (2/7/18)
"It's the best show on TV, and somehow that's still selling it short... . Atlanta is the best TV series on the air right now, and among the best ever made... .[Atlanta's] moving and excellent"
· Joshua Rivera, GQ 5/11/18)
"the best damn show on television. With its second season, Atlanta is easily doing what it did the first time: Subverting your every expectation, making killer comedy out of black fury"
· Joshua Rivera, GQ (4/6/18)
"?????... The best show on TV returns in style... It's TV's funniest drama and most bruising comedy. It's the best thing currently running on the small screen, full stop"
· Charles Bramesco, The Guardian (2/28/18)
"Atlanta is definitely a strong contender to be the best show of the year. This season very well may be one of the best of the decade.... This show is easily one of the most creative and straightforwardly funny projects of the last few years. Multiple actors are stars on the rise"
· Todd Van Luling, Huffington Post (4/27/18)
"We're lucky to be watching a shooting star in real time"
· Brandon Katz, New York Observer (2/28/18)
"Robbin' Season is so good, it's almost criminal... . a richly detailed story about relationships and money and black life... wonderful, surreal, hilarious... "
· James Poniewozik, The New York Times (2/18/18)
"there's no denying that Atlanta is one of the greats"
· Rachael Clemmons, Metro US (2/28/18)
"There's nothing else quite like it on TV, no series is at once so strange and angry and hysterically funny. It's a show that smiles at us through clenched teeth"
· John Powers, NPR (2/28/18)
"Arguably the most artistically creative show on television... ."
· Brandon Katz, The Observer (3/29/18)
"Donald Glover's remarkable FX series routinely breaks the unspoken rules of television... "
· Alison Herman, The Ringer (4/12/18)
"As Donald Glover steps up his already-stunning game on the second season of his groundbreaking FX hit, it's all these things and more. Simply "the best show on TV" will have to do"
· Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone (3/8/18)
"Brilliant, thrilling and intentionally unsettling... [Season 2] breaks even more rules, again with dazzling and deserved confidence... ... The performances are superb at every level, and the direction, mostly by Hiro Murai, is equal to the levels of excellence in the acting and the scripts by Glover, his brother Stephen and others... There is nothing like it... What Glover is doing here is really hard. Loving it, though, is really easy"
· David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle (2/28/18)
"Grade A... Be assured there's still nothing else like it--on FX or anywhere else."
· Ed Bark, Uncle Barky (2/28/18)
"Atlanta's flawless second season... . The seductive, off-kilter, brutally honest brainchild of Donald Glover... ."
· Sonia Saraiya, Vanity Fair (5/11/18)
· "The best show on television... ."
· Noel Ransome, Vice (3/22/18)
"As uncomfortable and fantastic as ever... brilliant... "
· Caroline Framke, Vox (2/28/18)
"Atlanta is having one of those miracle seasons that only happens when every artist involved is on the same creative page and operating at the peak of their powers."
· Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture (4/30/18)
"Unlike anything else on television... A big part of the joy of watching Atlanta is having your expectations overturned... Atlanta is putting black lives onscreen in a way they've never been before. That artistic achievement is in itself educational; it is indeed very special. The fact that the show also makes you laugh hard and gasp in shocked surprise is what makes it almost constantly amazing"
· Ken Tucker, Yahoo TV (3/1/18)
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ABOUT FX
FX is the flagship general entertainment basic cable channel of FX Networks, a business unit of 21st Century Fox. Launched in June of 1994, FX is carried in 90 million homes. The diverse schedule features a growing roster of critically-acclaimed and award-winning hit dramas series, including The Americans, Taboo, Legion, Snowfall, Trust and the upcoming Mayans MC and Mr Inbetween; the critically-acclaimed limited series American Horror Story, Fargo, American Crime Story and FEUD; acclaimed hit comedy series including Atlanta, Baskets and Better Things, and the upcoming What We Do in the Shadows; the dance musical series Pose, and the upcoming docuseries The Weekly with The New York Times. 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 and Justified. The network's library of acquired box-office hit movies is unmatched by any ad-supported television network. 

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Atlanta | Season 2 Episode 11: Lottie's Future Scene | FX

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Atlanta | Season 2 Ep. 10: Bootlegged Shirt Scene | FX

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Atlanta | Season 2 Episode 11: Crabs in a Barrel Preview | FX

DESCRIPTION: Sometimes you gotta go where the money goes. But it be feeling like something is holding me back. Like I can't leave.

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Atlanta | Season 2 Episode 9: Run! Scene | FX

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Atlanta | Season 2 Episode 9: Family Ain't Enough Scene | FX

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Atlanta | Season 2 Episode 10: FUBU Preview | FX

DESCRIPTION: Y'all youngins don't know nothing about this. This one takes me back to middle school. Shout out Miller Grove!

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Atlanta | Season 2 Episode 9: North of the Border Preview | FX

DESCRIPTION: We might have to make that move tonight. I heard there's a pajama party and Paper Boi is gonna be there.

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Atlanta | Season 2 Episode 7: Bostrom's Simulation Scene | FX

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Atlanta Robbin’ Season continues Thursdays at 10pm ET/PT on FX. 

Atlanta | Season 2 Episode 8: Woods Preview | FX 

DESCRIPTION: Why Paper Boi always got an attitude? He rich, right? That's why I can't feel bad for these celebrities.

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Atlanta | Season 2 Episode 6: Understanding Teddy Perkins Scene | FX

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Atlanta Robbin’ Season continues Thursdays at 10pm ET/PT on FX.

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Sixth Episode of "Atlanta Robbin' Season" Will Air Uninterrupted on FX

Sixth Episode of "Atlanta Robbin' Season" Will Air Uninterrupted on FX
"Teddy Perkins" will run uninterrupted for its 41-minute duration when it premieres on Thursday, April 5 at 10:00/9:00c.

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[via press release from FX]

Programming Advisory

Sixth Episode of "Atlanta Robbin' Season" Will Air Uninterrupted on FX

"Teddy Perkins" Will Air Without Interruption During Its 41-Minute Run

LOS ANGELES, April 4, 2018 - The sixth episode of Atlanta Robbin' Season will air without commercial interruption on FX. "Teddy Perkins" will run uninterrupted for its 41-minute duration when it premieres on Thursday, April 5 at 10 PM et/pt on FX.

Atlanta Robbin' Season - Episode 6: "Teddy Perkins" (Thursday, April 5 at 10 PM et/pt on FX) - Darius is trippin in this one. Y'all know I woulda been left. Written by Donald Glover; Directed by Hiro Murai.

In Atlanta Robbin' Season, two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families. "Earn Marks" (Donald Glover) is a young manager trying to get his cousin's career off the ground. "Alfred Miles" (Brian Tyree Henry) is a new hot rapper trying to understand the line between real life and street life. "Darius" (Lakeith Lee Stanfield) is Alfred's right-hand man and visionary. "Van" (Zazie Beetz) is Earn's best friend and the mother of Earn's daughter. Donald Glover serves as Executive Producer, along with Paul Simms, Dianne McGunigle and Stephen Glover. Atlanta is produced by FX Productions.

ABOUT FX

FX is the flagship general entertainment basic cable channel of FX Networks, a business unit of 21st Century Fox. Launched in June of 1994, FX is carried in 90 million homes. The diverse schedule features a growing roster of critically-acclaimed and award-winning hit dramas series, including The Americans, Taboo, Legion, Snowfall, Trust and the upcoming Mayans MC; the critically-acclaimed limited series American Horror Story, Fargo, American Crime Story and FEUD; acclaimed hit comedy series including Atlanta, Baskets and Better Things; and the upcoming dance musical series Pose. 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 and Justified. The network's library of acquired box-office hit movies is unmatched by any ad-supported television network.

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Sixth Episode of "Atlanta Robbin' Season" Will Air Uninterrupted on FX
"Teddy Perkins" will run uninterrupted for its 41-minute duration when it premieres on Thursday, April 5 at 10:00/9:00c.

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[via press release from FX] Programming Advisory
Sixth Episode of "Atlanta Robbin' Season" Will Air Uninterrupted on FX
"Teddy Perkins" Will Air Without Interruption During Its 41-Minute Run
LOS ANGELES, April 4, 2018 - The sixth episode of Atlanta Robbin' Season will air without commercial interruption on FX. "Teddy Perkins" will run uninterrupted for its 41-minute duration when it premieres on Thursday, April 5 at 10 PM et/pt on FX.

Atlanta Robbin' Season - Episode 6: "Teddy Perkins" (Thursday, April 5 at 10 PM et/pt on FX) - Darius is trippin in this one. Y'all know I woulda been left. Written by Donald Glover; Directed by Hiro Murai.

In Atlanta Robbin' Season, two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families. "Earn Marks" (Donald Glover) is a young manager trying to get his cousin's career off the ground. "Alfred Miles" (Brian Tyree Henry) is a new hot rapper trying to understand the line between real life and street life. "Darius" (Lakeith Lee Stanfield) is Alfred's right-hand man and visionary. "Van" (Zazie Beetz) is Earn's best friend and the mother of Earn's daughter. Donald Glover serves as Executive Producer, along with Paul Simms, Dianne McGunigle and Stephen Glover. Atlanta is produced by FX Productions.

ABOUT FX
FX is the flagship general entertainment basic cable channel of FX Networks, a business unit of 21st Century Fox. Launched in June of 1994, FX is carried in 90 million homes. The diverse schedule features a growing roster of critically-acclaimed and award-winning hit dramas series, including The Americans, Taboo, Legion, Snowfall, Trust and the upcoming Mayans MC; the critically-acclaimed limited series American Horror Story, Fargo, American Crime Story and FEUD; acclaimed hit comedy series including Atlanta, Baskets and Better Things; and the upcoming dance musical series Pose. 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 and Justified. The network's library of acquired box-office hit movies is unmatched by any ad-supported television network.