AMC Global announces premieres of Night Manager, Fear the Walking Dead


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Michelle Clancy

| 12 January 2016




Content giant AMC Global has announced the premieres of the Night Manager and Fear the Walking Dead.



The Night Manager, an eight-part espionage drama starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, will premiere beginning Monday 22 February in AMC Global markets. Series two of Fear the Walking Dead, the companion series to the global hit The Walking Dead, will debut on Sunday 10 April, simultaneous to the AMC US premiere, with repeats later that evening in primetime in local markets.

Talking Dead, the review show hosted by Chris Hardwick, will be seen in conjunction with each episode of Fear the Walking Dead, and will air exclusively for the first time in most AMC Global markets throughout series two.

A contemporary interpretation of John le Carré’s espionage novel, the Night Manager follows former British soldier Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston), who is recruited by intelligence operative Angela Burr (Olivia Colman) to infiltrate the inner circle of international businessman Richard Onslow Roper (Hugh Laurie). The Night Manager is a co-production between AMC, BBC One and The Ink Factory.

Fear the Walking Dead will air its second series of 15 episodes in two parts, beginning with the first of seven episodes. The remaining eight episodes will air later in the year. When it debuted worldwide, season one of the series achieved record-breaking performance. That coup made AMC Global a top ten network for the night in key regional markets including Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The drama also delivered the highest-rated first season of any series in US cable history among total viewers and all key demos in live +3 ratings.