The Jan. 6 committee has subpoenaed 14 of the fake Republican “electors” who schemed to overturn their states’ 2020 election results by signing forged documents submitted to the government.
“The Select Committee is seeking information about attempts in multiple states to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including the planning and coordination of efforts to send false slates of electors to the National Archives,” Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote in a statement. “We believe the individuals we have subpoenaed today have information about how these so-called alternate electors met and who was behind that scheme.
“The Select Committee is seeking information about attempts in multiple states to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including the planning and coordination of efforts to send false slates of electors to the National Archives,” Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote in a statement. “We believe the individuals we have subpoenaed today have information about how these so-called alternate electors met and who was behind that scheme.
- 1/28/2022
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
ABC is developing a drama series with Regina King attached to direct and executive produce, Variety has learned exclusively.
Currently titled “Warriors,” the one-hour project hails from Michael Narducci. It takes place in a Midwestern community where two friends–a semi-retired NFL player and an idealistic high school principal–will attempt to overcome their conflicting styles of teaching as they mentor a new generation and confront the long buried sins of their past.
Narducci would executive produce in addition to writing, with Michael J. McDonald also attached to executive produce along with King. Former pro football player Wade Davis will co-executive produce. ABC Studios will produce along with King’s Royal Ties and McDonald’s Stearns Castle. Narducci, McDonald, and King are all under overall deals with ABC Studios.
The project reunites McDonald and King, who previously worked together on the critically-acclaimed ABC series “American Crime.” King starred in that...
Currently titled “Warriors,” the one-hour project hails from Michael Narducci. It takes place in a Midwestern community where two friends–a semi-retired NFL player and an idealistic high school principal–will attempt to overcome their conflicting styles of teaching as they mentor a new generation and confront the long buried sins of their past.
Narducci would executive produce in addition to writing, with Michael J. McDonald also attached to executive produce along with King. Former pro football player Wade Davis will co-executive produce. ABC Studios will produce along with King’s Royal Ties and McDonald’s Stearns Castle. Narducci, McDonald, and King are all under overall deals with ABC Studios.
The project reunites McDonald and King, who previously worked together on the critically-acclaimed ABC series “American Crime.” King starred in that...
- 8/27/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
ABC has put in development drama Flight 410 from The Last Ship writer-producer Jill Blankenship, American Crime executive producer Michael McDonald and ABC Studios. Written and executive produced by Blankenship, Flight 410 is described as a character-driven conspiracy thriller. After a commercial flight vanishes over the Atlantic Ocean, a disgraced journalist whose wife was on the plane is driven to solve the mystery as he leads an unconventional group with other family…...
- 11/16/2017
- Deadline TV
Since its debut on ABC, American Crime has been a vehicle for spotlighting hot-bottom social issues, and the recently wrapped third season is no different, tacking subject matter including illegal immigration, economic slavery, and individual rights. “It was a conversation people were having about immigration and labor and the disparity in our country,” executive producer Michael J. McDonald told a packed DGA theater crowd made up of TV Academy and guild voters last month…...
- 5/31/2017
- Deadline TV
American Crime is no longer paying at ABC: The network has cancelled John Ridley’s Emmy-winning anthology drama after three seasons.
The series was never a ratings powerhouse for ABC, but its Season 3 ratings were particularly woeful; it wrapped its run on April 30 with an anemic 2 million viewers and a 0.4 demo rating. But Crime was arguably ABC’s most acclaimed drama of the past few years, snagging consecutive Emmy nominations for Best Limited Series and back-to-back wins for star Regina King.
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The series was never a ratings powerhouse for ABC, but its Season 3 ratings were particularly woeful; it wrapped its run on April 30 with an anemic 2 million viewers and a 0.4 demo rating. But Crime was arguably ABC’s most acclaimed drama of the past few years, snagging consecutive Emmy nominations for Best Limited Series and back-to-back wins for star Regina King.
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- 5/11/2017
- TVLine.com
ABC has released the episode description for its American Crime TV show's season three finale. The question remains: will this also be the TV series finale? Executive producer Michael McDonald previously said if the crime anthology is renewed for a fourth season, it will focus on women in the workplace and sexual harassment. However, the third season, which centers on undocumented workers, drugs, and human trafficking has not fared well in the Nielsen ratings, so the series is likely to be cancelled.American Crime stars Regina King, Felicity Huffman, Connor Jessup, Richard Cabral, and Benito Martinez. The ABC TV series cast also includes Sandra Oh, Cherry Jones, Tim DeKay, Janel Moloney, Dallas Roberts, Timothy Hutton, Lili Taylor, Ana Mulvoy-Ten, Mickaëlle X. Bizet, and Clayton Cardenas. The finale airs on April 30th at 10:00pm Et/Pt. Read More…...
- 4/17/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Regina King and John Ridley are teaming up to tell a real-life American crime.
The Emmy-winning actress is attached to star in No Place Safe, a drama in development at FX chronicling the Atlanta Child Murders, our sister site Deadline reports.
RelatedAmerican Crime Season 4 Poised to Tackle ‘Women in the Workplace’
The potential series, to be adapted by Empire scribe Wendy Calhoun, is based on the Kim Reid memoir of the same name. Reid at the time was a 13-year-old whose mother was one of the investigators in search of the killer of at least 28 African-American children, adolescents and...
The Emmy-winning actress is attached to star in No Place Safe, a drama in development at FX chronicling the Atlanta Child Murders, our sister site Deadline reports.
RelatedAmerican Crime Season 4 Poised to Tackle ‘Women in the Workplace’
The potential series, to be adapted by Empire scribe Wendy Calhoun, is based on the Kim Reid memoir of the same name. Reid at the time was a 13-year-old whose mother was one of the investigators in search of the killer of at least 28 African-American children, adolescents and...
- 4/12/2017
- TVLine.com
ABC’s American Crime just debuted its third season in March, and though it hasn’t been renewed for a fourth, Ep Michael J. McDonald hinted at the next topical venture. “There is a story that we want to tell,” he said. “Seeing what’s happening on Fox News and what’s happening with Uber, you’re seeing the role that women play in the workforce,” he shared, possibly teasing the topic of sexual harassment. McDonald, who was onstage with actors Felicity Huffman, Regina King…...
- 4/9/2017
- Deadline TV
Should American Crime be lucky enough to score a Season 4 pickup at ABC, the acclaimed anthology drama will delve into another very timely issue: injustice in the workplace.
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At Sunday’s Emmy-themed Contenders event, presented by TVLine’s sister site Deadline, exec producer Michael McDonald revealed that a potential fourth season would center on “women in the workplace,” before citing the recent sexual harassment scandals enveloping Uber and Fox News (Bill O’Reilly specifically) as examples.
McDonald then acknowledged that despite the continued support...
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At Sunday’s Emmy-themed Contenders event, presented by TVLine’s sister site Deadline, exec producer Michael McDonald revealed that a potential fourth season would center on “women in the workplace,” before citing the recent sexual harassment scandals enveloping Uber and Fox News (Bill O’Reilly specifically) as examples.
McDonald then acknowledged that despite the continued support...
- 4/9/2017
- TVLine.com
Another member of the American Crime cadre of actors is set for the third installment of the ABC anthology series from John Ridley. Benito Martinez, who co-starred in the first season and guest starred in Season 2, will return to American Crime for season 3. He joins fellow retuning players Timothy Hutton, Felicity Huffman, Regina King, Lili Taylor, Richard Cabral and Connor Jessup in the acclaimed series, executive produced by Ridley and Michael McDonald. His character…...
- 8/22/2016
- Deadline TV
American Crime is putting Connor Jessup through the emotional wringer again.
The actor, who gave a tour de force performance as a teenager grappling with his sexuality in the ABC drama’s second season, will return for Season 3, the network announced Wednesday.
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“Connor Jessup is one of the smartest and most talented young actors working today,” said executive producer Michael McDonald. “[Series creator] John [Ridley] and I believe Connor’s performance will be even more emotionally shocking than last year as his character helps shed new light on the opiate...
The actor, who gave a tour de force performance as a teenager grappling with his sexuality in the ABC drama’s second season, will return for Season 3, the network announced Wednesday.
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“Connor Jessup is one of the smartest and most talented young actors working today,” said executive producer Michael McDonald. “[Series creator] John [Ridley] and I believe Connor’s performance will be even more emotionally shocking than last year as his character helps shed new light on the opiate...
- 8/17/2016
- TVLine.com
Emmy-nominated Lili Taylor will return to American Crime for the upcoming third season, joining previously announced Timothy Hutton, Felicity Huffman, Regina King and Richard Cabral in the praised anthology series from John Ridley and Michael McDonald. “John and I are honored that Lili Taylor is returning to the cast of ‘American Crime.' Lili consistently performs with her soul exposed, and we are so blessed that she has chosen to share that gift with us. We can't wait…...
- 8/1/2016
- Deadline TV
American Crime continues to pay for Timothy Hutton: The actor is officially set to return to ABC’s Emmy-winning anthology drama for Season 3, TVLine has learned.
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In a statement, exec producers John Ridley and Michael McDonald declared that Hutton “will shock the audience in a darker twisted turn as a wealthy man struggling to keep his family and fortune.” As previously reported, among the themes explored in Season 3 will be labor conflicts, economic disparity and individual rights.
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In a statement, exec producers John Ridley and Michael McDonald declared that Hutton “will shock the audience in a darker twisted turn as a wealthy man struggling to keep his family and fortune.” As previously reported, among the themes explored in Season 3 will be labor conflicts, economic disparity and individual rights.
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- 7/25/2016
- TVLine.com
"Slumdog Millionaire" and "Immortals" actress Freida Pinto has scored the female lead role in Showtime and Sky Atlantic's six-part mini-series "Guerrilla" which is being produced by Green Door Pictures, Fifty Fathoms, ABC Signature and Stearns Castle.
Idris Elba and "12 Years a Slave" scribe John Ridley serve as executive producers on the story about a politically active couple whose relationship is tested when they liberate a charismatic political prisoner and form a radical underground cell in 1970s London.
Their ultimate target becomes the Black Power Desk, a true-life, secretive counter-intelligence unit within Special Branch dedicated to crushing all forms of black activism. Pinto will play the wife of the couple, the husband has yet to be cast. Elba has a supporting role in the production, though details of it have yet to be revealed.
Ridley will write the majority of the episodes and direct the first two, while Sam Miller...
Idris Elba and "12 Years a Slave" scribe John Ridley serve as executive producers on the story about a politically active couple whose relationship is tested when they liberate a charismatic political prisoner and form a radical underground cell in 1970s London.
Their ultimate target becomes the Black Power Desk, a true-life, secretive counter-intelligence unit within Special Branch dedicated to crushing all forms of black activism. Pinto will play the wife of the couple, the husband has yet to be cast. Elba has a supporting role in the production, though details of it have yet to be revealed.
Ridley will write the majority of the episodes and direct the first two, while Sam Miller...
- 6/28/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Incredibly written/directed/acted crime does pay: ABC has renewed its critically-adored, Emmy-winning anthology drama American Crime for Season 3, TVLine has learned.
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Per the network, the third season will focus on “a new crime committed in a different setting, as told through the eyes of those affected.”
At an Emmy-themed event hosted by TVLine’s sister site Deadline last month, exec producer Michael McDonald hinted at the premise for a then-potential third season. “There a huge disparity in this country that we can tap into,...
Related2016 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble?
Per the network, the third season will focus on “a new crime committed in a different setting, as told through the eyes of those affected.”
At an Emmy-themed event hosted by TVLine’s sister site Deadline last month, exec producer Michael McDonald hinted at the premise for a then-potential third season. “There a huge disparity in this country that we can tap into,...
- 5/12/2016
- TVLine.com
Showtime has greenlit the Guerrilla TV series, from American Crime's John Ridley. Luther's Idris Elba will star and executive produce. The six-part limited series, coming to Showtime and Sky Atlantic, centers on a couple whose passion propels them from political activism into radical militancy.
Executive producer Ridley will write the majority of the episodes and direct the first two. Fifty Fathom's Patrick Spence and Katie Swinden; ABC Signature's Tracy Underwood; and Stearns Castle's Michael McDonald will also executive produce. Production is set for this summer, in London.
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Executive producer Ridley will write the majority of the episodes and direct the first two. Fifty Fathom's Patrick Spence and Katie Swinden; ABC Signature's Tracy Underwood; and Stearns Castle's Michael McDonald will also executive produce. Production is set for this summer, in London.
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- 4/21/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Idris Elba and "12 Years a Slave" director John Ridley are teaming for a six-episode political activism drama series entitled "Guerrilla" which is in the works at Showtime and Sky Atlantic.
The story centers on a politically active couple whose relationship and values are tested when they liberate a political prisoner and form a radical underground cell in 1970s London.
Their ultimate target becomes the Black Power Desk, a true-life, secretive counter-intelligence unit within Special Branch dedicated to crushing all forms of black activism. Production kicks off in London later this summer.
Ridley will write the majority of the episodes and direct the first two. Elba will have a co-starring role in the series and will executive produce alongside Ridley, Patrick Spence, Katie Swinden, Tracy Underwood and Michael McDonald.
Ridley remains attached to a top-secret Marvel drama described only as a reinvention of an existing superhero character. He's also awaiting the...
The story centers on a politically active couple whose relationship and values are tested when they liberate a political prisoner and form a radical underground cell in 1970s London.
Their ultimate target becomes the Black Power Desk, a true-life, secretive counter-intelligence unit within Special Branch dedicated to crushing all forms of black activism. Production kicks off in London later this summer.
Ridley will write the majority of the episodes and direct the first two. Elba will have a co-starring role in the series and will executive produce alongside Ridley, Patrick Spence, Katie Swinden, Tracy Underwood and Michael McDonald.
Ridley remains attached to a top-secret Marvel drama described only as a reinvention of an existing superhero character. He's also awaiting the...
- 4/20/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Although there’s still no official word on American Crime returning for a 3rd season, Ep Michael McDonald revealed at the Deadline Contenders Emmys event that there is talk of a storyline if the show is renewed. “There a huge disparity in this country that we can tap into, which is that people who are working very, very hard can barely put food on the table while there are many millionaires and billionaires being tapped into the politics as you can see,” he told TV Line’s…...
- 4/11/2016
- Deadline TV
Before you do anything else, American Crime fans, you might want to breathe a sigh of relief.
Over the course of the last 10 weeks, the ABC drama hasn’t given viewers many moments of levity, as its sophomore season tackled the heavy issues of sexual assault, social class and mental health, among others.
But in Wednesday’s season finale, Taylor Blaine, Eric Tanner and a number of other characters came to the end of this particularly harrowing chapter — even if the outcome wasn’t ideal or, in some cases, even shown to the audience at home. (And we should all...
Over the course of the last 10 weeks, the ABC drama hasn’t given viewers many moments of levity, as its sophomore season tackled the heavy issues of sexual assault, social class and mental health, among others.
But in Wednesday’s season finale, Taylor Blaine, Eric Tanner and a number of other characters came to the end of this particularly harrowing chapter — even if the outcome wasn’t ideal or, in some cases, even shown to the audience at home. (And we should all...
- 3/10/2016
- TVLine.com
Felicity Huffman, star of John Ridley’s ABC anthology series American Crime, is guest starring in Ridley’s ABC drama pilot Presence. The gig, limited to the pilot only, stems from Huffman’s relationship with Ridley and fellow Presence executive producer Michael McDonald, who also exec produce Presence, and is the type of favor name actors do for writers and producers they have a strong relationship with. Huffman tweeted about her stint yesterday. Figuring out the look…...
- 2/20/2016
- Deadline TV
A word of warning to the characters on American Crime: That phone call you’re about to make is probably not a good idea.
When Season 2 of the ABC drama began, Lili Taylor’s Anne Blaine made a 911 call (“I’d like to report a rape”) that rocked both her and her son’s worlds, with arguably very little payoff. And on Wednesday’s episode, history repeated itself when Joey Pollari‘s Eric Tanner picked up his cell phone and dialed rape accuser Taylor, asking if the two could hash things out at the local rec center.
But that...
When Season 2 of the ABC drama began, Lili Taylor’s Anne Blaine made a 911 call (“I’d like to report a rape”) that rocked both her and her son’s worlds, with arguably very little payoff. And on Wednesday’s episode, history repeated itself when Joey Pollari‘s Eric Tanner picked up his cell phone and dialed rape accuser Taylor, asking if the two could hash things out at the local rec center.
But that...
- 2/11/2016
- TVLine.com
The original version of this story first ran in the Movies and Limited Series issue of TheWrap Emmy magazine. ABC came to John Ridley with an idea for the show that became “American Crime” long before the writer-director-producer won an Oscar for his screenplay for “12 Years a Slave,” because the network and producer Michael MacDonald knew that Ridley had been exploring issues of race in America for years. Not only did his previous films include Spike Lee‘s “Red Tails,” but he had been writing commentary on the topic for such outlets as NPR and Esquire. Steve Pond: It was disconcerting.
- 6/17/2015
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
This morning at TCAs, we were introduced to the explosive new show “American Crime” a dynamic drama from Academy Award-winning writer John Ridley (12 year a Slave) and Executive Producer Michael McDonald. The drama features a virtual glut of talent including Timothy Hutton, Felicity Huffman, Regina King, Benito Martinez and Penelope Ann Miller and the 11 episode series follows the fallout of a brutal crime and the shockwaves it send through the community and the racial and socioeconomic tensions that that it stirs up. A young couple in Modesto, California were brutally attacked in their home leaving a war vet murdered, and … Continue reading →
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- 1/14/2015
- by Kellie Freeze
- ChannelGuideMag
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