Lifetime unveiled Hillbetties, a country music reality show about aspiring female musicians, and announced that its previously-announced miniseries Bonnie and Clyde - starring Emile Hirsch and Holliday Grainger in the title roles, as well as Holly Hunter and William Hurt - will premiere simultaneously on A&E, Lifetime and The History Channel later this year. Get the scoop on 39 must-watch season finales Another scripted miniseries, Sons of Liberty, will focus on the events surrounding the Revolutionary War. Piggybacking on the networks' 2012 miniseries about the feuding families, Hatfields & McCoys, the new show will track two clans as they debate going into business together.Īdrien Brody will also star as Houdini in a two-day miniseries about the escape artist. New programming for the History Channel includes a reality series based on the real-life Hatfields and McCoys. It will premiere in 2014.ġ0 Promising Pilots: Which will get picked up? The network has also picked up Those Who Kill, a serial killer drama based on a Danish series, produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer and starring Chloe Sevigny and James D'Arcy.

A&E Networks, which is enjoying a banner year thanks to the success of Duck Dynasty, Vikings and The Bible, unveiled a slate of new projects at its upfront presentation Wednesday, including a miniseries about Houdini starring Adrien Brody in the title role and reality shows about the real-life Hatfields and McCoys and stay-at-home dads.Ī&E will air Modern Dads follows four stay-at-home dads (some married, some single) and the trials and tribulations they go through in their daily lives.

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