EPIX is getting an excessive makeover.
The premium cable community (which can be out there as a standalone streaming service) will quickly rebrand as MGM+. The title change will take impact on Sunday, Jan. 15, in conjunction with the Season 3 premiere of Forrest Whitaker crime drama Godfather of Harlem.
“MGM is one of the most iconic and beloved brands from the golden age of entertainment,” MGM+ president Michael Wright stated in assertion Wednesday. “This rebrand is a promise to existing and new viewers that MGM+ is the place to find television that reflects and celebrates the legacy of the iconic MGM brand – cinematic programming with sophisticated storytelling that entertains, delights, surprises, and transports. MGM is television for movie lovers.”
The new model emblem, as seen above, is alleged to “embody the rich legacy of MGM, while at the same time orienting the brand toward the future. It reimagines the rich, 100-year history of MGM’s emblematic gold lion and the classic art-deco typeface in a contemporary and forward-facing fashion.”
In addition to returning sequence FROM and Godfather of Harlem, MGM+ will probably be house to the next newly ordered originals:
Belgravia: The Next Chapter | The sequence will decide up in 1865, 25 years after the occasions depicted in the 2020 restricted sequence, which was written by Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey) and based mostly on his novel of the identical title. Developed and written by Helen Edmundson (Dalgliesh, Mary Magdalene), it should inform the love story of Frederick Trenchard, who has grown up because the third Lord Glanville, and his new love curiosity, Clara Dunn, who’s a newcomer to London society. Unaware that his start was the product of an affair between his mom Susan and the scoundrel John Bellasis, a troubled childhood has left Frederick deeply insecure, which challenges his courtship of and marriage to Clara.
Hotel Cocaine | This is the story of Roman Compte, Cuban exile, CIA operative, and common supervisor of the The Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Chris Brancato (Narcos, Godfather of Harlem) will serve as showrunner and executive producer for this eight-episode crime thriller. Fellow EP Guillermo Navarro (Pan’s Labyrinth) will direct the pilot.
Untitled Amityville Murders Docuseries | This four-part docuseries chronicles the world’s most notorious haunted home story: the Amityville murders. The mission… is the primary elevated take a look at each facet of this wildly layered story concerning the heinous homicide of a household of six that grew to become eclipsed by paranormal controversy.
San Francisco Sounds (working title) | A two-part docuseries that tracks the historical past of the San Francisco music scene from 1965 to 1975.
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