ATX Television Festival’s Virtual Event Adds ‘One Chicago,’ ‘Psych,’ ‘Perry Mason,’ and ‘One Day Day at a Time’
The ATX Television Festivals virtual event is just a couple of weeks away! “ATX TV…From the Couch,” will take place on June 5-7, 2020, and the festival is continuing to add more programming.
For starters, #OneChicago will be participating in the festival this year. Peacock and Wolf Entertainment will host a “Live with OneChicago” conversation with Chicago Fire showrunner/executive producer Derek Haas and cast members Jesse Spencer (Chicago Fire) and LaRoyce Hawkins (Chicago P.D.) ahead of the platform’s July launch.
The group will discuss the increasingly interconnected world of the three series, and the larger Wolf Entertainment world established by Dick Wolf. Additional panelists will be announced soon.
Longtime ATX partner HBO will present a marquee panel conversation with the cast and creatives of Perry Mason in a first look at the network’s new summer drama, which premieres Sunday June 21. Participants for that panel will be announced soon.
Showtime will be bringing a look at the upcoming sports docu-series, Outcry, which examines the gripping story of high school football star Greg Kelley and a quest for truth and justice in central Texas. Emmy award-winning director and executive producer Pat Kondelis will join the festival for a conversation about the making of the series and its significance to both a local Texas community and national conversations on justice reform.
The virtual event will also feature a panel “Extravaganza” with the cast from the new HBO Max original series, Legendary. Pulling directly from the underground ballroom community, the series showcases voguing teams (aka “houses”) who must compete in unbelievable balls and showcase sickening fashion in order to achieve “legendary” status. Panelists will be announced soon. The series premieres May 27 on HBO Max.
In addition, the festival will feature a virtual table read event with the executive producers and cast of Search Party ahead of the show’s debut on the new streaming platform HBO Max. Producers and cast will perform a script reading of the Season 2 finale, followed by an exclusive sneak peek at the upcoming season. Confirmed talent includes series creators and EPs Charles Rogers and Sarah-Violet Bliss, as well as stars Alia Shawkat, Meredith Hagner, John Early, John Reynolds, and Brandon Micheal Hall.
The virtual event will also take viewers inside the writers room of Little Fires Everywhere. Showrunner/executive producer Liz Tigelaar, co-executive producer/writer Attica Locke, co-executive producer/writer Raamla Mohamed, co-executive producer/writer Amy Talkington, co-executive producer/writer Nancy Won, writer/producer Shannon Houston, writer/producer Harris Danow, and writer/producer Rosa Handelman will participate.
FX Networks will present a Justified retrospective to celebrate the series’ recent addition to the expansive FX on Hulu library. The panel will include a look back at the series with creator/showrunner/executive producer Graham Yost, director/executive producer Michael Dinner, executive producer Sarah Timberman, and stars Timothy Olyphant, and Joelle Carter.
Peacock will also host a Psych panel with creators Steve Franks and Chris Henze, as well as cast members James Roday, Dulé Hill, Kirsten Nelson, Maggie Lawson, and Corbin Bernsen ahead of the premiere of Psych 2: Lassie Come Home on the platform this summer.
ATX will also include a conversation with the women of the critically acclaimed One Day at a Time. Showrunner/executive producer/director/actor Gloria Calderón Kellett, and cast members Justina Machado, Rita Moreno, and Isabella Gomez will join viewers for an informal brunch conversation to discuss the series’ upcoming animated special, “The Politics Episode,” which will air June 16th on Pop TV following a marathon of the current season.
The festival will highlight the ways in which women support one another in television and extend their own networks to lift one another up with a special “Torchlighters” panel, led by Pacesetter principal and executive producer Jessica Rhoades and creator/showrunner/executive producer/director Marti Noxon.
ATX will also bid farewell to series that have ended or will end in 2020 with “The End,” a panel conversation about what it means to say goodbye to our favorite series and characters in a particularly tumultuous year. Creator/showrunner/executive producer Jason Rothenberg (The 100) and showrunner/creator/executive producer Martin Gero (Blindspot) are confirmed to participate. Additional panelists will be announced soon.
Previously announced programming includes:
“Scrubs” Retrospective
“Cougar Town” Conversation with Busy Philipps & Christa Miller
“The Bold Type” (Freeform)
“Nancy Drew” (The CW)
“New Amsterdam” (NBC / Universal Television)
“P-Valley” Exclusive First Look with Creatives & Cast (Starz)
“The Pivot” presented by Television Academy
“Channel Changers: A Conversation with TV’s Presidents”
“Celebrating Authentic Stories” panel with Latinx creators
“Inside the Writers Zoom Room” panel with showrunners & writers
A Conversation on Mental Health & Addiction Storylines presented by Hollywood Health & Society panel
A Conversation on Voter Suppression & Election Year Issues presented with ACLU
Registration for the virtual festival is now open. Register here!
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Ashley Bissette Sumerel
Ashley Bissette Sumerel is a television and film critic living in Wilmington, North Carolina. She is editor-in-chief of Tell-Tale TV as well as Eulalie Magazine. Ashley has also written for outlets such as Rolling Stone, Paste Magazine, and Insider. Ashley has been a member of the Critics Choice Association since 2017 and is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. In addition to her work as an editor and critic, Ashley teaches Entertainment Journalism, Composition, and Literature at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.