FX
FX has officially confirmed that Shōgun is returning for Season 2, along with the start date of production. The 2024 series, which took more than a decade to bring to fruition, was FX's crown jewel when it finally arrived — a series that fully embodied the network's
Actors and Actresses
James Norton's exit from Grantchester was messier than anyone would have liked. At the end of his three-season contract, he declined to re-sign for another season, delaying the show's fourth season by nearly a year as an agreement was worked out where he would be written
FX
It took FX a decade to get a remake of Shōgun off the ground, with the network president John Landgraf referring to the series as the white whale he'd been chasing almost since he first started at the company. They say that good things come to those who
FX
The dawn of the 1600s was a pivotal historical moment for Japan and the European powers vying for a slice of its power. Portugal and their Jesuit priests were the only nations engaged in trade with Japan, having first made contact some 60 years previously; however, tensions across Europe pushed
FX
Head of FX John Landgraf, known as "The Mayor of Television," declared 2024 to be the conclusion of "Peak TV," with the first official downturn in the number of shows produced a year since 2013 when the streaming revolution began. However, the number of shows may
FX
The Australian-born British writer James Clavell was well-known in Hollywood for The Fly, The Great Escape, and To Sir, With Love before becoming a best-selling novelist for Shōgun in the 1970s. Perhaps the only surprising thing about his book being adapted in 1980 for the screen is that it wasn&
Movies
Netflix's Persuasion is directed by theater director Carrie Cracknell in her first movie venture and written by veteran Ron Bass (My Best Friend's Wedding) and Alice Victoria Winslow (Glaciers). They seem to have concocted it by speed-reading the Flashnotes version, whizzing a copy of Jane Austen&