AMC revealed the following about the new series:
"Lucky Hank" (formerly "Straight Man")
New series will premiere on AMC+ and AMC on Sunday, March 19.
Starring Emmy nominee Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) and Mireille Enos (The Killing), "Lucky Hank" is an eight-episode mid-life crisis set at Railton College. Told in the first person by William Henry Devereaux, Jr. (Odenkirk), the unlikely chair of the English department of a severely underfunded college in Pennsylvania's industrial hub.
Aaron Zelman (Silicon Valley, The Killing) and Paul Lieberstein (The Office, The Newsroom), who adapted the project of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo's novel "Straight Man," serve as co-showrunners. Zelman, Lieberstein, Odenkirk, director Peter Farrelly, Mark Johnson (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire), Richard Russo, Naomi Odenkirk and Marc Provissiero (PEN15) serve as executive producers.
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