Few showrunners have ever confronted what Shawn Ryan did previously few years whereas heading up CBS’ S.W.A.T. The drama was first formally canceled again in 2022, then was renewed for a “ultimate” season, just for that call to be reversed, ultimately resulting in the third cancellation announcement in March 2025. Right here’s hoping that gained’t be a sample on all the things he works on sooner or later, particularly now that he’s landed fairly a significant follow-up mission.
Additionally a co-creator on Netflix’s spy thriller The Night time Agent, which is able to ship Season 3 quicker than anticipated to followers with Netflix subscriptions, Ryan is now heading up the brand new streaming sequence American Hostage. After working with the ever-studly and proficient Shemar Moore for the previous eight years, he’ll now have the — [checks notes] — additionally ever-studly and proficient Jon Hamm slotted in for a lead function. A minimum of for one season, as this mission will make the most of a high-octane anthology format.
American Hostage, which Ryan co-created alongside fellow Mad Canine inventive Eileen Myers (Large Love), is predicated on the hit scripted podcast of the identical identify, which additionally options Hamm within the lead function of Fred Heckman. The story being advised is a dramatization of the real-life 1977 incident the place the financially strapped Tony Kiritsis kidnapped his mortgage dealer Richard O. Corridor and held him hostage, beneath the assumption that he was being arrange.
The streaming service MGM+ snatched up the rights to American Hostage, which first went into improvement with Ryan and Hamm again in November 2023, again when S.W.A.T. Season 8 was nonetheless only a pipe dream. And it sounds just like the platform’s head honcho is happy to carry this story to life, saying:
It is a fascinating story about actual folks engaged in a real-time life-or-death wrestle to maintain a determined hostage state of affairs from spinning uncontrolled, and I can’t consider a extra gifted actor on whom to middle the story than Jon.
MGM+ head Michael Wright
Sadly, this sequence will not be arrange in time to make it an upcoming 2025 TV present, and it will seemingly debut someplace round mid-2026, although that is simply speculating. The plan is for manufacturing to kick off this fall in Winnipeg, Canada.
I hoped that this official announcement would affirm extra forged members becoming a member of Jon Hamm for the brand new present. The podcast co-starred the at all times glorious Carla Gugino, Dylan Baker, and Joseph Perrino, and every can be equally nice in live-action, however scheduling is clearly an element that will make or break such returns.
However I can not think about that anybody would balk at co-starring with Jon Hamm in a brand new streaming present if time allowed. He not too long ago co-starred in Taylor Sheridan’s Landman reverse Billy Bob Thornton and Demi Moore, however that present’s Season 1 finale form of took his character out of the equation, thus permitting the actor to leap into a brand new main function.
With information additionally breaking the identical day about Invoice Hader probably heading up a brand new drama sequence primarily based on the Jonestown tragedy, there is no finish in sight to high-profile true crime circumstances. I ponder if that is the place Shemar Moore will pop up subsequent…