EL SEGUNDO, Calif.,
April 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
AT&T* AUDIENCE Network announced today that the second season
of its breakout show "Mr. Mercedes" will premiere on Wednesday, Aug. 22 at 10pm
ET/PT. The series, produced by Sonar Entertainment, will be
available exclusively on DIRECTV, DIRECTV NOW and AT&T
U-verse.
Written by television veterans David E.
Kelley (Big Little Lies, Ally McBeal) and Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, The Drop, Live
by Night) and directed by Jack
Bender (Game of Thrones, Lost, Under the
Dome), the second season will be based on Stephen King's best-selling Bill Hodges Trilogy,
which includes, "Mr. Mercedes," "Finders Keepers" and "End of
Watch." King, Kelley, Bender, Lehane, Marty
Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of
Temple Hill Entertainment, and Tom
Lesinski and Jenna Santoianni
of Sonar Entertainment will serve as executive producers.
The second season takes place a year after Brady Hartsfield's thwarted attempt to
perpetrate a second mass murder in the community of Bridgton,
Ohio. Since the incident,
Hartsfield has been hospitalized in a vegetative state. Retired
Detective Bill Hodges has done his
best to move on from his Brady obsession, teaming up with
Holly Gibney to open Finders
Keepers, a private investigative agency. But when unexplainable
occurrences begin to affect hospital staff members attending to
Brady, Hodges is haunted by the feeling that Brady is somehow
responsible.
The original cast, which includes Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter) as Detective Bill Hodges, Harry
Treadaway (Penny Dreadful) as Brady Hartsfield, Jharrel Jerome
(Moonlight) as Jerome
Robinson, Scott Lawrence
(Avatar) as Detective Peter
Dixon, Breeda Wool
(Unreal) as Lou Linklatter, Justine
Lupe (Francis Ha) as
Holly Gibney, Nancy Travis (How I Met Your Mother) as
Donna Hodges, and Holland Taylor
(The Truman Show) as Ida
Silver, is joined by Jack
Huston (Boardwalk Empire) as Brady Hartsfield's doctor Dr. Felix Babineau, Tessa
Ferrer (Grey's Anatomy) as Dr. Babineau's wife
Cora Babineau, and Maximiliano Hernandez (Sicario) as
Assistant DA Antonio Montez for season 2.
Season 1 of Mr. Mercedes is available on AT&T AUDIENCE
Network which can be found on DIRECTV Ch. 239 and AT&T U-verse
Ch. 1114 and via streaming services on DIRECTV NOW, DIRECTV, and
AT&T U-verse Apps.
About AT&T AUDIENCE Network
Always Original.
Always Bold. Never Ordinary. AT&T AUDIENCE Network brings
fresh, provocative content exclusively to DIRECTV, AT&T U-verse
and DIRECTV NOW customers. It's committed to pushing the envelope
with a growing slate of critically acclaimed original series.
Its latest lineup includes an adaptation of Stephen King's "Mr. Mercedes" and upcoming
political thriller "Condor." Original comedies include "Loudermilk"
and the industry-first polyamorous romcom "You Me Her." AT&T
AUDIENCE Network brings viewers real drama with its original
documentaries "The Volunteers" and "The Sign" and intimate
celebrity interviews on "Off Camera with Sam Jones." "The Dan Patrick
Show" and "The Rich Eisen Show" offer sports fans
live, daily news from renowned sports journalists. And "Undeniable
with Joe Buck" puts viewers front
row for in-depth chats with sports icons like Derek Jeter and Michael
Phelps. Plus, music fans can see exclusive
concerts by today's hottest artists on AUDIENCE Music. It's
original entertainment you won't see anywhere else.
*About AT&T
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**Claim based on the Nielsen Certified Data Network Score. Score
includes data reported by wireless consumers in the Nielsen Mobile
Insights survey, network measurements from Nielsen Mobile
Performance and Nielsen Drive Test Benchmarks for Q1 + Q2 2017
across 121 markets.
About Sonar Entertainment:
Sonar Entertainment is a
leading independent entertainment studio that develops, produces,
finances and distributes content for global audiences. Our
financial strength and independence provides us with the freedom to
fund development and productions on a global scale and partner with
the most innovative storytellers in the industry. Sonar
Entertainment premium scripted series include Mr.
Mercedes, written by David E.
Kelley, based on the novel by Stephen King, with the AT&T AUDIENCE Network
for DIRECTV and AT&T U-verse; The Son, starring
Pierce Brosnan for AMC;
and Das Boot, an eight-part series inspired by the
acclaimed movie, for Sky. Sonar Entertainment also distributes
internationally, outside the UK, Taboo, for FX and BBC
One, starring Tom Hardy and
executive produced by Ridley Scott.
Factual and lifestyle series include Texas
Metal for Discovery and Food's Greatest
Hits for Scripps. Sonar Kids and Family series
include Counterfeit Cat, airing on Disney XD in the US,
Teletoon in Canada, on Hulu and in
over 200 countries worldwide; and Go Away,
Unicorn! for Disney.
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