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Russos protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. The series runs for eight episodes, with the finale set for May 7. In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. “Lucky Hank” will make its world premiere at Austin’s SXSW festival on March 11, before making its television debut on March 19. AMC Studios produces the series in partnership with Sony Pictures’ Television TriStar TV and Johnson’s Gran Via. The two also executive produce alongside Odenkirk, Russo, director Peter Farrelly, Mark Johnson, Naomi Odenkirk, Marc Provissiero, and Jessica Held. Kyle Maclachlan, Alvina August, Tom Bower, Shannon DeVido, Chris Diamantopoulos, Lilah Fitzgerald, Jackson Kelly, Arthur Keng, and Oscar Nuñez are among the first season’s guest stars.Īaron Zelman and Paul Lieberstein developed the series for television and co-showrun the first season.

The series also stars Sara Amini, Diedrich Bader, Suzanne Cryer, Olivia Scott Welch, and Cedric Yarbrough. As Hank begins to unravel, his wife Lily (Mireille Enos), the vice principal of the town’s local high school, begins to question her path and life decisions. The series focuses on Hank as he goes through a mid-life crisis rooted in “unresolved issues with his father, a mediocre and entitled student body, and in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans,” per the logline. Bob Odenkirk Shuts Down Marvel Rumors: I’m ‘Not Built for That World’

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