Fans looking for AtlantaFX Season 3 will have to wait longer than expected. That’s because the hit show has been delayed, according to the FX channel’s chief executive.
“I don’t know whether we’ll have Atlanta or not. The writers are back working right now, thank God.” FX chief John Landgraf told the Hollywood Reporter.
AtlantaFx will be delayed, studio exec says
The sad news means the show won’t be around for the 2019 Emmy nominations, where it has garnered critical acclaim.
The reason for much of the delay centers on the show’s star, Donald Glover, according to Landgraf.
“As you might imagine, Donald Glover is sort of the king of all media, and he just has had an incredibly complicated life. He’s had personal things he’s had to deal with, from injuries to other things I’d rather not say publicly that just have to do with not with his personal life but his extended family. So I think one of the things that is just a reality of television today is you have to wait. We have so many things now that don’t cycle back on a regular basis.”
In December, while on the last leg of his “This is America Tour,” Glover told the crowd at Madison Square Garden that he had just lost his father in death.
“I lost my father a couple weeks ago,” the award-winning actor-singer-songwriter shared on stage. “And I wanted to play him some of the new songs… But he didn’t wanna hear ’em, ’cause he was like, ‘I know they’ll be great.'”
Landgraf indicated that he could force the show back on the air, but at creative cost. “From my standpoint, I wish for the fans as well as for us that we could get everything back on an annual basis but, again, you just have to make a decision about quantity over quality at a certain point — and we’re just erring on the side of quality.”
AtlantaFx is about three friends who help one of them navigate the rap music industry. In addition to Glover, the TV show stars Brian Tyree Henry, Lakeith Stanfield, and Zazie Beetz. Here are the characters they play:
AtlantaFx cast & characters
- Donald Glover: Earnest “Earn” Marks, a young Princeton dropout trying to manage the rap career of his cousin.
- Brian Tyree Henry: Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles, who is trying to make it in the rap world being managed by his cousin Earn.
- Lakeith Stanfield: Darius Epps, Alfred’s eccentric best friend and partner who provides much of the comedic moments on the show.
- Zazie Beetz: Vanessa “Van” Keefer, Earn’s on-again-off-again girlfriend and the mother of their daughter Lottie. She’s also of Afro-German heritage, as we learn on the show.
The second season of AtlantaFx titled Robbin’ Season, premiered on March 1, 2018 and won critics’ praise and widened the fanbase.
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