Can Vampires Save AMC?

AMC, erstwhile home of Mad Men and Breaking Bad, was “once the basic cable network to be at, absolutely,” a Hollywood insider recently told Joy Press. “But if you look at them now,” that’s not the case. “A lot of agents will take projects out in tiers. Tier one is your streamers and your premium cable networks…. AMC is no longer in that tier. I wouldn’t even say they’re in the second tier a lot of the time.” The problem only seems likely to get worse with the impending end of Better Call Saul and The Walking Dead. So, how does the former industry darling plan to weather the storm? With a little bit of elbow grease—and, as execs tell Joy, a bunch of shows about vampires. 

Elsewhere in HWD, Whitney Friedlander gets the lowdown on an exceptionally dirty song from Schmigadoon!; Coralie Kraft goes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with A League of Their Own star D’Arcy Carden; Rebecca Ford investigatesthe impending (potential) return of the Golden Globes to NBC; and Josh Wigler lays out everything you need to know about House of the Dragon, the Game of Thrones prequel premiering Sunday.

S’all Good, Man?

“They were once the basic cable network to be at,” one insider says. But with Mad Men, the Breaking Bad universe, and The Walking Dead in the rearview, can a new slate of vampire shows save AMC?

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Delicious

Why is a cheerful song about a gloppy dessert secretly about sex? As series cocreator and songwriter Cinco Paul reveals, it’s all in the musical-theater tradition.

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Swinging for the Fences

After The Good Place, Ted Danson advised D’Arcy Carden to do “something as different from Janet as humanly possible.” She found the perfect role in Prime Video’s new twist on a classic movie.

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All That Glitters

As some A-listers and their publicists continue to push for reforms and an NBC broadcast deal seems imminent, Hollywood gatekeepers remain divided on whether the Golden Globes can ever really come back.

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Back to Westeros

Don’t know Jaehaerys the Wise from Lord Corlys Velaryon? Our expert is here to help, just in time for House of the Dragon.

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