Actor Jon Hamm has really established himself on the small screen since his “Mad Men” days, with roles in the last season of Noah Hawley‘s “Fargo” and Apple TV‘s “Friends & Neighbors“; he’s already lining up his next TV project with the true-crime-inspired “American Hostage” coming to MGM+ next month, a high-stakes anthology series.
Hamm stars as Minnesota radio reporter Fred Heckman, alongside Giovanni Ribisi as Tony Kiritsis, Kristoffer Polaha as Dick Hall, William Jackson Harper as Ben Hairston, Mireille Enos as Fred’s wife Barbara Heckman, Jonathan Tucker as FBI Special Agent Cormac McNally, and Kat Cunning as Ibby Hall. Hamm’s Heckman gets pulled into the events of a real-life hostage situation as the perpetrators demand to be interviewed live on the radio.
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An official logline for the show as provided by MGM+:
“American Hostage” is a psychological thriller set in the 1970s that tells the harrowing true story of Fred Heckman, a beloved Indianapolis radio reporter who is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker Tony Kiritsis demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program.
Co-created by Shawn Ryan and Eileen Myers, the eight-episode series is executive produced by Ryan, Myers, Sharon Hoffman, Hamm, Connie Tavel, Marney Hochman, Shawn Christensen, Gabriel Mason, and Jen Roskind, with directors Adam Arkin and Nina Lopez Corrado. It hails from Sony Pictures Television, and the series is set for a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Feel free to check out the new trailer for “American Hostage’ below, as the show is set to make its MGM+ debut on September 20.
