The insular world of the Mennonite community and the double life that one pastor must adopt to protect his family from a crime syndicate is the setting for WGN America’s new crime series Pure.
Pure – based on the real life Mennonite Mob – is set to premiere on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 (10/9C). Check out the trailer below.
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WGN America’s six-part event series The Disappearance – starring Emmy® winner Peter Coyote, Camille Sullivan and Aden Young – centers around the sudden disappearance of a 10-year-old boy that shakes a close-knit community to its core.
The Disappearance will premiere on Thursday, July 12th. The series description follows.
Continue reading WGN America Announces Premiere Date for The Disappearance!
WGN America has added the Tim Allen comedy series Last Man Standing to its lineup.
Last Man Standing will premiere on the network on Monday, April 30th.
100 Code is a tense crime thriller that follows the hunt for a serial killer who targets young, blonde and blue-eyed women, found dead in fields of flowers.
The series stars Dominic Monaghan (Lost, Lord of the Rings Trilogy) as NYPD Detective Tommy Conley and the late Michael Nyqvist (John Wick, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) as by-the-book Swedish detective Mikael Eklund. Despite despising each other, they have to work together as the killings continue.
100 Code premieres on WGN America on Tuesday, May 19th (10/9C). Check out the trailer below.
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Centering on the complex relationships between crime reporters and the police, “Shoot the Messenger” follows Daisy Channing (Elyse Levesque), a young reporter trying to balance a messy personal life with a burgeoning career. Things begin to go sideways for Daisy when she witnesses a murder she thinks is gang related.
WGN America has released a first look video in which series creator Jennifer Holness and the show’s stars introduce the characters and basic plot.
Shoot the Messenger premieres on Monday, February 26th (10/9C).
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Today, WGN America announced the acquisition of “Murder She Wrote,” the classic crime drama starring six-time Golden Globe® winner, Angela Lansbury, set to launch on the network Monday, January 1 at 9:00am ET / 8:00am CT.
Kicking-off with the first four episodes from season one, and airing all 265 episodes throughout the 2018 year, the series follows mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher (Lansbury).
Murder She Wrote episodes will air in chronological order, every weekday at 12:00pm-3:00pm ET / 11:00am-2:00pm CT.
WGN America will air a 19-hour M*A*S*H marathon beginning at 9 am (8C) on Saturday, December 9th.
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WGN America has released a teaser trailer for the limited series, “Shoot the Messenger,” which is slated to premiere early 2018. The eight-part, one-hour series stars Elyse Levesque (“Orphan Black”) as Daisy Channing, Lyriq Bent (“The Book of Negroes”) as Kevin Lutz, Lucas Bryant (“Haven”) as Simon Olenski and Alex Kingston (“Doctor Who,” “ER”) as Mary Foster.
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While WGN America might have gotten out of the ‘premiere series’ game, that hasn’t meant it’s abandoning original scripted programming.
Following its acquisition of Anna Paquin’s Bellvue, WGN America has acquired a trio of shows for its ‘Prime Crime’ slate: 100 Code, Shoot the Messenger and Pure. Read on to check out trailers for all four shows – which will premiere in 2018.
100 Code finds Dominic Monaghan’s New York homicide detective tracking a serial killer to Stockholm; Shoot the Messenger follows Elyse Levesque’s reporter becoming part of her story when she witnesses a homicide, and Pure follows a newly-elected Mennonite pastor trying to rid his community of drugs but is in over head.
Whew, I thought WGN America was dead, so it’s nice to find out that they are bringing out new programming and is bringing one of my favorites Anna Paquin (True Blood, X-Men) back to television as a Producer and star of Bellevue. Bellevue is another one of those small town with big secrets dramas.
Welcome to “Bellevue” – a small town with big secrets. Twenty years ago the murder of a young woman traumatized the community. Now the killer is back. Or is he?
Bellvue is a new drama series starring Oscar®-winning actress Ann Paquin as Detective Annie Ryder, who has a connection to the twenty-year old murder.
Bellvue will premiere on WGN America in early 2018.
Continue reading WGN America Acquires Rights To Small Town Murder Mystery Series Bellvue!