After FX and Hulu decided to extend its hit limited series Shōgun, the network has decided to switch up its Emmy Strategy.
What’s Happening:
- FX and Hulu have announced that they’ll be creating not one but two more seasons of the highly successful Shōgun, a series adaptation of the 1975 James Clavell novel.
- FX, a Disney owned network, will be working directly with the James Clavell estate to extend the original story.
- Original creators, producers, and writers Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo as well as producer and star Hiroyuki Sanada are all confirmed to be involved.
- Quickly becoming the most watched FX show in the network's history, Shōgun’s renewal should come as no surprise.
- A writer’s room is set to begin sometime this summer
- With this timed renewal of what many considered to be a limited series, FX has positioned itself with a new Emmy strategy.
- Deadline reports that FX will submit the show in the drama category, pinning it up against the likes of Silo, The Wheel of Time, Fallout, and The Morning Show.
- Shōgun takes place in 1600s Japan as tensions are rising towards civil war. All of the epic drama’s 10 episode first season is available to stream on Hulu now.
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