FX sets premiere dates for summer slate, teases ‘Justified: City Primeval’ with Timothy Olyphant
FX today announced additional premiere dates for its summer slate featuring the return of some of its most popular and critically acclaimed series like the 14th and final season of Archer, plus Reservation Dogs and What We Do in the Shadows as well as the debut of two new shows, the series adaptation of the Academy Award-winning feature film The Fully Monty that brings back the original cast and the limited series spinoff of their Emmy-winning Justified entitled Justified: City Primeval, including the return of Timothy Olyphant.
In Justified: City Primeval, Raylan Givens (Olyphant) now lives in Miami, having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind.
A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent, sociopathic desperado who’s already slipped through the fingers of Detroit’s finest once and aims to do so again. Mansell’s lawyer, formidable Motor City native Carolyn Wilder, has every intention of representing her client, even as she finds herself caught in between cop and criminal, with her own game afoot as well. These three characters set out on a collision course in classic Elmore Leonard fashion, to see who makes it out of the City Primeval alive.
Dave Andron and Michael Dinner are showrunners and will serve as executive producers with Timothy Olyphant, Graham Yost, Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, Taylor Elmore, Chris Provenzano and V.J. Boyd. Peter Leonard of the Elmore Leonard Estate will executive produce in association with MGM Television. Walter Mosley and Ingrid Escajeda are consulting producers, and Eisa Davis is a producer. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television and FX Productions.
Taking place 25 years after the original British smash hit, the eight-episode series The Full Monty (trailer) will follow the same band of brothers as they navigate the post-industrial city of Sheffield and society’s crumbling healthcare, education, and employment sectors. The comedy-drama will uncover what happened to the gang after they put their kit back on, exploring their brighter, sillier and more desperate moments. It will also highlight how the fiercely funny world of these working-class heroes – still residing in Sheffield – has changed in the intervening decades.
The original movie’s Academy Award-winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy returns, joined by co-writer Alice Nutter (Accused), with Uberto Pasolini (Nowhere Special) also coming back as executive producer.
Among the lead cast reprising their fan-favorite roles are Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, Once Upon A Time) as “Gaz,” Mark Addy (Game of Thrones, A Knight’s Tale) as “Dave,” Lesley Sharp (Before We Die, Scott and Bailey) as “Jean,” Hugo Speer (Britannia, Shadow and Bone) as “Guy,” Paul Barber (The Dumping Ground, Gloves Off) as “Horse,” Steve Huison (The Royle Family, The Navigators) as “Lomper,” Wim Snape (The Beaker Girls, Gentleman Jack) as “Nathan” and Tom Wilkinson (Batman Begins, Michael Clayton) as “Gerald.”
New cast members joining the ensemble include Talitha Wing (Wolfe, Alex Rider), as Gaz’s teenage daughter, “Destiny” and Paul Clayton (The Crown, The Split) as Lomper’s husband, “Dennis.” Miles Jupp (Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, The Durrells) stars as recent divorcee and housing officer “Darren,” who looks up to the Monty men for advice on navigating adult life. Sophie Stanton plays “Hetty,” a colleague and friend of Jean, and Phillip Rhys Chaudhary (Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists) joins as “Dilip,” Deputy Headteacher at the school. Newcomers Dominic Sharkey and Natalie Davies appear as Destiny’s mates “Cal” and “Tabani” respectively, alongside Arnold Oceng, who plays a talented graffiti artist. Aiden Cook stars as wise-cracking twelve-year-old “Dean/‘Twiglet,’” while Tupele Dorgu (Alma’s Not Normal) portrays Destiny’s mother, “Yaz.”
Simon Lewis serves as Series Producer. The series is executive produced for Disney+ EMEA by Lee Mason, Director, Scripted. The original series was developed by Searchlight Television and FX.
Newly announced today are the premiere dates for:
- July 13 – FX’s What We Do in the Shadows, season 5. First two episodes beginning at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX and streaming the next day on Hulu.
- July 18 – FX’s Justified: City Primeval, new limited series. First two episodes beginning at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX and streaming the next day on Hulu.
- August 2 – FX’s Reservation Dogs, season 3. First two episodes available exclusively on Hulu.
- August 30 – FX’s Archer, 14th and final season. First two episodes beginning at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FXX and streaming the next day on Hulu.
These series add to the previously announced summer premieres:
- June 7 – FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 16. First two episodes beginning at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FXX and streaming the next day on Hulu.
- June 14 – FX’s The Full Monty, new series. All eight episodes available at premiere exclusively on Hulu.
- June 22 – FX’s The Bear, season 2. All 10 episodes available at premiere exclusively on Hulu.
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