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2022-23 AMC Pilots & Series Orders
Drama
ANNE RICE’S MAYFAIR WITCHES (Ordered straight to series)
An intuitive young neurosurgeon discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.
Studio Gran Via Productions
Team Esta Spalding (w, ep, sr), Michelle Ashford (w, ep), Mark Johnson (ep),
Cast Harry Hamlin, Jack Huston
DEMASCUS (Ordered script-to-series; six episodes)
Demascus is a 33-year-old Black man on a mission of self-discovery and the burgeoning field of digital psychiatry that might be the key to defining his truest self.
Studio AMC Studios
Team Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm (w, ep), Kirk Moore (ep, sr), Mark Johnson (ep), Myki Bajaj (ep)
Cast Okieriete Onaodowan, Martin Lawrence (recurring)
THE DRIVER (Ordered straight to series; six episodes)
A taxi driver's life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer a New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster notorious for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports. Based on the BBC One miniseries.
Studio AMC Studios/A+E Studios/Thruline Entertainment
Team Danny Brocklehurst (w, ep), Sunu Gonera (w, d, ep), Theo Traver (ep, sr), Giancarlo Esposito (ep), Josh Kesselman (ep), Danny Sherman (ep), Barry Jossen (ep), Tana Jamieson (ep)
Cast Giancarlo Esposito, Paula Malcomson, Bonnie Mbuli, Skeet Ulrich
INVITATION TO A BONFIRE (Ordered script-to-series; six episodes)
Set in the 1930s at an all-girls boarding school in New Jersey and inspired by Vladimir and Vera Nabokov’s co-dependent marriage, it follows Zoya, a young Russian immigrant and groundskeeper who is drawn into a lethal love triangle with the school’s newest faculty member — an enigmatic novelist — and his bewitching wife. Based on the novel by Adrienne Celt.
Studio AMC Studios
Team Rachel Caris Love (w, ep), Robin Schwartz (ep), Kyle Laursen (ep), Carolyn Daucher (p)
Cast Freya Mavor, Pilou Asbæk, Ngozi Anyanwu
ISLE OF THE DEAD (Ordered straight to series)
'The Walking Dead' spinning sees Maggie and Negan traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty and terror.
Studio
Team Eli Jorné (w, ep, sr), Scott M. Gimple (ep), Lauren Cohan (ep), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (ep)
Cast Jeffrey Dean Morgan
ORPHAN BLACK: ECHOES (Ordered straight to series; 10 episodes)
Set in the near future, it follows a group of women as they weave their way into one another’s lives and embark on a journey to unravel the mystery of their identity and uncover a wrenching story of love and betrayal.
Studio
Team Anna Fishko (w, ep, sr), John Fawcett (ep),David Fortier (ep), Ivan Schneeberg (ep), Katie O’Connell Marsh (ep), Nick Nantell (ep), Kerry Appleyard (ep)
Cast TBA
STRAIGHT MAN (Ordered straight to series; eight episodes)
Follows William Henry Devereaux Jr., a born anarchist who is the unlikely chairman of the English department in a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt -- a department that's more savagely divided than the Balkans. Based on Richard Russo’s novel.
Studio TriStar Television/Gran Via
Team Aaron Zelman (w, ep, sr), Paul Lieberstein (w, ep, sr), Bob Odenkirk (ep), Peter Farrelly (d, ep), Richard Russo (ep), Naomi Odenkirk (ep), Marc Provissiero (ep)
Cast Bob Odenkirk
MARY & GEORGE (Ordered straight to series)
Story of Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham, who in 17th Century England molded her beautiful son, George, to seduce King James I and become his all-powerful lover. Through outrageous scheming, the pair rose from humble beginnings to become one of the richest, most titled and influential mother and sons England had ever seen. Inspired by Benjamin Woolley's nonfiction book 'The King’s Assassin.'
Studio Hera Pictures/Sky Studios
Team DC Moore (w, ep), Oliver Hermanus (d), Sam Hoyle (ep), Liza Marshall (ep)
Cast Julianne Moore
THE WALKING DEAD: DARYL DIXON (Ordered straight to series)
Follows Daryl Dixon as he is transported across the Atlantic to France and a whole new level of a world gone mad.
Studio AMC Studios
Team David Zabel (ep, sr), Angela Kang (ep)
Cast Norman Reedus, Clémence Poésy, Adam Nagaitis, Anne Charrier, Eriq Ebanouey, Laika Blanc Francard, Louis Puech Scigliuzzi, Romain Levi
UNTITLED WALKING DEAD SPINOFF (Ordered straight to series)
The series presents an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. By the ghosts of who they were. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead… And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they’ve ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive — or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?
Studio AMC Studios
Team Scott M. Gimple (ep, sr), Andrew Lincoln (ep), Danai Gurira (ep), Denise Huth (ep), Brian Bockrath (ep)
Cast Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Lesley-Ann Brandt
Comedy
DEMASCUS (Ordered script-to-series; six episodes)
Demascus is a 33-year-old Black man on a mission of self-discovery and the burgeoning field of digital psychiatry that might be the key to defining his truest self.
Studio AMC Studios
Team Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm (w, ep), Kirk Moore (ep, sr), Mark Johnson (ep), Myki Bajaj (ep)
Cast TBA
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