Breeders has begun on FX. Martin Freeman, who played Lester Nygaard in the first season of Fargo, is a father whose patience with his children is fading fast. Daisy Haggard plays his wife.

FX describes the edgy comedy as exposing “the parental paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being apoplectically angry enough to want to send them there.”

Michael McKean plays the estranged father of Haggard’s Ally character.

He said the Breeders cast has that something special. “What really, really counts is when the cameras shut down and you have lunch — what those conversations are like, how much fun you’re having,” McKean said at the TCA Winter Press Tour. “There comes a time at every job that I really love: Someone — often me but not always — says, this is a great job. This is an amazing thing we do. We get to hang out with funny people and laugh. There’s nothing like it.”

Freeman, Simon Blackwell and Chris Addison created Breeders. It’s dark. And quite funny.

Dick Wolf Chases Bad Guys, and Girls, on Oxygen

A new season of Cold Justice begins on Oxygen March 14. Working with local law enforcement, the Cold Justice team has brought on a bunch of arrests, and some convictions to boot.

Dick Wolf executive produces. Cases this season include the murder of a young mother in Fort Myers, Florida, whose football hotshot husband was arrested for her killing; an aspiring police officer shot to death in his motel room, also in Fort Myers; and the murder of an elderly man whose wife was known to have a violent temper. The latter case saw investigators turn up at the home of the 84-year-old wife, Norma Albritton, only to find she wasn’t there. The investigators ventured out to a nearby convenience store for snacks, and found ol’ Norma there.

“The show gets a little lucky sometimes,” executive producer Liz Cook said.

The victim’s family is visited at the beginning and end of each episode. Being able to bring positive news to the grieving families means a lot to the producers. “You want to go into those with good results,” Cook said. “Seeing their satisfaction really makes it worthwhile.”

Cold Justice spent three seasons on TNT, and a couple more now on Oxygen. What compels people to tune in? “People like to see justice,” said Cook. “They want to see them get the bad guy.”

There’s a wide array of intriguing suspects this season. “From the football player to the 84-year-old woman,” Cook said. “They’re old and young, female and male, all different ages. It covers everything.”

Female-targeted network Oxygen this summer will rebrand itself within the popular true crime genre, network officials said.

The network will jettison its reality and lifestyles shows – including its long-running series Bad Girls Club – once those shows' current and new seasons run their course and will focus exclusively on content in the true crime genre. As part of its rebrand, the network will launch several new series, including a revival of former TNT unscripted series Cold Justice. The Dick Wolf-produced series will debut on the network in third quarter 2017.

“The recent expansion of our ‘Crime Time’ weekend block has enjoyed double-digit gains and has really resonated with our female audience,” Frances Berwick, president of lifestyle networks, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, said in a release. “Oxygen has always played in this space with the highly successful original series Snapped, one of the longest running crime series on television now approaching its 20th season. With a lot of high quality projects in development, we believe our current fans, as well as all arm chair detectives, have good reason to be excited.”

Oxygen has had success with its “Crime Time” weekend block of true crime series. Since launching in 2016, the block has posted a 22% increase in women viewers 25-54 and a 42% increase in total viewers compared to fourth quarter 2015 numbers, according to Oxygen. In October the network expanded the block to include Fridays and Mondays. 

Other new Oxygen shows include Three Days to Live (premiering March 5), which follows the first three days after an abduction, and The Jury Speaks (debuting third quarter 2017), which looks at famous true crime cases decided by a jury.  

Oxygen will join ID (Investigation Discovery), A&E and Reelz, among others, in mining the true crime genre, which has generated several high profile shows such as Netflix's Making Of A Murderer and FX's Emmy-winning miniseries People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. 

TNT will launch a spinoff of its unscripted drama series Cold Justice in Spring 2015, said network officials.

Similar to Cold Justice, the Wolf Reality/Magical Elves-produced spinoff will focus on a pair of crime experts who in the spinoff will examine sex crimes, according to TNT.

Dick Wolf (Law & Order, Chicago Fire), Dan Cutforth & Jane Lipsitz (TopChef, Time of Death) and Tom Thayer (Hitchcock, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee) will serve as executive producers on both series, according to TNT.