Mandy Patinkin, Janet McTeer and Danny Huston will star in a Gilded Age murder mystery limited series titled “The Artist.”
From the free, ad-supported streamer and studio The Network, the series follows “an ensemble of the era’s celebrities including Thomas Edison, Edgar Degas and Evelyn Nesbit” as they meet at the home of “an eccentric and failing tycoon,” per the logline. By the end of the night, the mogul is found dead, spurring a historical fiction-themed murder mystery.
The seven-episode series, which is currently entering production and filming on location in Connecticut, will premiere in March 2025.
The Network founder Aram Rappaport serves as creator, executive producer, writer and director of “The Artist.” Hilary Shor (“Children of Men,” “The Paperboy”) is a producer.
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