Network Profile
FX
Gritty, specific, often darkly comedic. High tolerance for ambiguity and moral complexity. Respects audience intelligence.
What FX Buys
What They Buy
Auteur-driven drama and comedy, strong specific voice, genre subversion. Willing to let creators take real creative risks.
Tone & Voice
Gritty, specific, often darkly comedic. High tolerance for ambiguity and moral complexity. Respects audience intelligence.
What to Avoid
Generic genre fare, broad network-style storytelling, projects without a distinctive creative voice.
Notable Pilots
The Americans, Fargo, Atlanta, Justified, The Bear, Archer
Full Scripted Catalog 76 scripted originals
Every scripted drama and comedy this network has produced. Gold border = pilot in our archive.
Unaired & Unproduced Pilots 3 pilots
Scripts that were bought or filmed but never made it to air. The most revealing data point about what a network actually wants.
A social worker and a mother thrust into crisis when the mother’s teenage daughter alleges abuse, pushing both women to their limits as they navigate an impossible situation.
An unexpected inheritance thrusts a pair of scrappy sisters into a world of generational wealth and long-buried crimes.
A married gynecologist, father of two sons, slowly comes to terms with the fact that he wants to undergo sexual reassignment surgery.