Premiere date new AMC series Lucky Hank with Bob Odenkirk

The cable channel has released a teaser and set a premiere date for the new drama. A few days ago it was announced that AMC had changed the name of the upcoming series "Straight Man" to "Lucky Hank". Starring Bob Odenkirk (pictured), Mireille Enos, Olivia Scott Welch, Diedrich Bader, Sara Amini, Cedric Yarbrough and Suzanne Cryer, the series follows a middle-aged college professor who tries to keep his life from falling apart. Eight episodes were produced.



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.