{"id":35475,"date":"2022-04-06T20:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=35475"},"modified":"2022-04-06T20:48:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:48:13","slug":"amc-networks-fast-track-developing-straight-man-as-a-new-series-starring-bob-odenkirk-with-sony-pictures-television-tristar-tv-and-mark-johnsons-gran-via","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/06\/amc-networks-fast-track-developing-straight-man-as-a-new-series-starring-bob-odenkirk-with-sony-pictures-television-tristar-tv-and-mark-johnsons-gran-via\/","title":{"rendered":"AMC Networks Fast-Track Developing &#8220;Straight Man&#8221; as a New Series Starring Bob Odenkirk with Sony Pictures&#8217; Television, Tristar TV, and Mark Johnson&#8217;s Gran Via"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21478\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/AMC-Networks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/AMC-Networks.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/AMC-Networks-300x51.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/AMC-Networks-768x130.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/AMC-Networks-750x127.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>AMC Networks today announced that it was fast-track developing a potential new series starring Bob Odenkirk for 2023 called<strong><em> Straight Man<\/em><\/strong>, with partners Sony Pictures&#8217; Television TriStar TV and Gran Via. Aaron Zelman and Paul Lieberstein, who are adapting the project from the novel of the same name by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo, would serve as co-showrunners. <em>Straight Man<\/em> would be Odenkirk&#8217;s third series on AMC, following <em>Breaking Bad<\/em> and <em>Better Call Saul<\/em>. Zelman, Lieberstein, Odenkirk, Peter Farrelly, who is on board to direct, Richard Russo, Naomi Odenkirk, and Marc Provissiero are executive producers.<\/p>\n<p>Straight Man is a mid-life crisis tale set at Railton College, told in the first person by William Henry Devereaux, Jr. (Odenkirk), the unlikely chairman of the English department in a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2287206475\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Bob Odenkirk is just as good as it gets. 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