Netflix has revealed details about the third season of its Ryan Murphy-created true-crime anthology series, Monster.

The streaming company said Tuesday that the next installment will focus on Ed Gein, with Sons of Anarchy actor Charlie Hunnam starring as the notorious 1950s murderer.

It was Murphy who actually first leaked the details, making the announcement onstage during a promotional event for Monster: Season 2, which focuses on Erik and Lyle Menendez and drops Thursday.

It’s the successor to Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which premiered in 2022 and reached 1 billion viewing hours in its first 60 days of distribution.

By the end of its first 90 days on Netflix, more than 115.6 million people had watched the series.

Currently, Dahmer is Netflix’s third most popular English-language series of all time, behind only Wednesday and Stranger Things: Season 4.

Production on the unnamed third season will begin in October, according to a subsequent announcement sent by Netflix.

At present, no other cast has been revealed, nor have any writers.

Born in 1906, Gein earned the nickname of the “Plainfield Ghoul” when authorities discovered he had not only killed multiple people, but had dug up graves and used human remains to fashion clothing, furniture and jewelry.

Gein’s case served as an inspiration for several popular horror characters, including Leatherface in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Norman Bates in Psycho and Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs.

Ryan Murphy’s latest FX original series, Grotesquerie, will debut on September 25, the second series from the prolific producer to premiere next month on the channel.

The 10-episode horror series stars Niecy Nash-Betts, Courtney B. Vance, Lesley Manville, Michaela Diamond and Travis Kelce. According to FX, Grotesquerie follows a detective (Nash-Betts) in a small community who feels someone or something is taunting her after a series of heinous crimes that have unsettled the community. “With no leads and unsure of where to turn, she accepts the help of ‘Sister Megan’ (Diamond), a nun and journalist,” FX said. “As Lois and Sister Megan string together clues, they find themselves ensnared in a sinister web that only seems to raise more questions than answers.” 

The series marks the second new Murphy-created series to debut on FX next month, following the September 17 premiere of American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez.

Grotesquerie is produced by 20th Century Television, with Murphy, Alexis Martin Woodall, Jon Robin Baitz, Joe Baken, Max Winkler, Nash-Betts, Vance, Peter Ligouri, Nissa Diederich, Eric Kovtun and Scott Robertson serving as executive producers. 

FX has set September 12 for the return of its Emmy-nominated drama series The Old Man and September 17 to premiere its limited series American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez.

The Old Man stars Jeff Bridges as former CIA agent Dan Chase and John Lithgow as  former FBI Assistant Director Harold Harper. They join forces to rescue a woman (Alia Shawkat) after she is kidnapped by a powerful Afghan tribal leader (Navid Negahban), FX said. Bridges was nominated in 2023 for best actor Emmy for Season 1 of the series, which aired in 2022.

The first installment of American Sports Story charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez and explores the New England Patriots tight end’s identity, family, career, 2017 suicide and his legacy in sports and American culture, FX said. Josh Rivera stars as Hernandez along with Jaylen Barron, Lindsay Mendez, Ean Castellanos, Tammy Blanchard, Tony Yazbeck, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Thomas Sadoski, Jake Cannavale and Norbert Leo Butz.

The Ryan Murphy-created series is also executive produced by Murphy, Stuart Zicherman, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Carl Franklin, Hernan Lopez, Marshall Lewy, Linda Pizzuti and Ira Napoliello.

Also set to debut in September is comedy series English Teacher, starring Brian Jordan Alvarez as a high school teacher in Austin, Texas who often finds himself at the intersection of the personal, professional and political aspects of working at a high school. The eight-episode series, which debuts September 2, also stars Stephanie Koenig, Sean Patton and Enrico Colantoni.

Debuting September 27 on FX is Social Studies, a character-driven documentary series that FX said delves into the lives of the first generation raised on social media. The five-episode series follows a diverse group of Los Angeles-based teens who offer an intimate glimpse into how social media has reshaped childhood.

FX’s American Horror Story anthology series takes a creepy, maternal turn for its upcoming 12 season, according to a new trailer for the series, set to debut September 20.

Part one of American Horror Story: Delicate stars Emma Roberts, Kim Kardashian and Cara Delevingne, and follows an actress who wants nothing more than to start a family, but fears that something may be targeting her and her pursuit of motherhood, according to the network. 

American Horror Story: NYC season 11 aired in 2022. American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy serves as executive producers for the Delicate limited series along with Brad Falchuk, Halley Feiffer, Alexis Martin Woodall, Scott Robertson and John Gray.

Ryan Murphy bolted Fox for Netflix in 2018, one of several mega-producers, Shonda Rhimes along with him, who signed eye-popping $300 million-plus deals with the subscription streaming giant at the time. 

Now, it looks like Murphy is returning to the former Fox studio. According to numerous published reports (we'll cite Bloomberg), Murphy has no plans to re-up his expiring five-year deal with Netflix and is instead negotiating with The Walt Disney Co., now corporate home to the 21st Century Studios and FX brands, upon which Murphy first built his own powerful brand with hits like Glee and American Horror Story. 

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At Disney, Ryan would be reunited with Disney Entertainment co-chair Dana Walden, who headed 20th Century Fox Television when the producer was on the lot. 

Disney acquired Fox's entertainment studios and other assets, including the FX cable brand, in 2019. 

Murphy is coming off a prolific year for Netflix, hoisting back to back hits last fall — Dahmer-Portrait of a Serial Killer and The Watcher. Both limited series wound up on Netflix's ranking of all-time best 28-day openings for English language TV shows. Netflix is in the process of expanding Dahmer into a full franchise of limited series based on serial killers.  

As every Ted Lasso fan knows, there are consequences to having a bad season in the English Premier League. Last season, Burnley, Watford and Norwich City were relegated (aka “demoted) to the English Football League Championship after each team finished in the bottom three of the Premier League. They’ll now have to finish in the top three in the Championship in the 2022-23 campaign if they want to be promoted back. 

Not to let Heidi Klum clutter up a perfectly good sports analogy for Next TV's new Friday afternoon navel-gazer, the business o’ video streaming is the same way — one week you’re in, the next you’re out. 

Here are some companies, executives, technologies or … things that we’d like to see promoted this week, and here’s another list we’d like to see relegated. 

PROMOTE 

* Roku City - Created as a homepage backdrop and screensaver for the Roku OS four years ago by former freelance graphic artist Kyle Jones, the scrolling magenta urban scape, filled with easter eggs, and now known as “Roku City,” has emerged as a happy hashtag on Twitter in recent weeks amid the social media platform’s post-apocalyptic chaos. It’s meme-liness was even spotlighted by the New York Times last weekend, which noted that Roku City has “become the unlikely venue for a massive public art experiment.” Of all the #RokuCity tweets referenced in the article, we liked this one from comedian Michelle Gold best:

Bob Chapek - Faced with EBITDA losses on direct-to-consumer businesses that would flush lesser quarterbacks into “course corrections” that make little sense in an age of accelerated cratering of linear media businesses, the Disney CEO stood tall in the pocket this week during his company’s third-quarter earnings report. Sure, he got hit after throwing the ball — Disney stock cratered 13%, a massive Wall Street setback that hasn’t been experienced in a generation. To Chapek, it’s just a matter of finding his open guys — ARPU on Disney Plus and the broader “Disney Bundle” have to be improved, and the advertising side of the business has to get launched and ironed out. But the blocking and tacking are there. The lighting-quick growth of Disney’s DTC scale — it blew by Netlfix in just three years — backs Chapek’s pledge to investors that Disney will be the first media conglomerate to be profitable in the new IP-distributed world. 

NBCUniversal - Amassing only 15 million paid users after two and a half years in the market, we’re not about to consider promoting NBCU’s DTC platform into our proverbial “Premier League.” Maybe out of the National League (which is like four rungs below the Premier)? But NBCU had a big programming win recently, releasing Universal Pictures’ 17th Halloween franchise movie, Halloween Ends, day and date onto Peacock and in theaters. The film generated what appears to be Peacock’s biggest audience to date. In fact, Nielsen revealed Thursday that a Peacock program surfaced for the first time on its weekly top 10 ranking of streaming shows, with Halloween Ends registering 717 million streaming minutes in the U.S. from Oct. 14-16. The film also generated $103.3 million at the global box office. Not a bad blended distribution strategy for a Blumhouse Productions movie with a reported production budget of around $33 million. 

RELEGATE

Ryan Murphy and Netflix - Sure, the prolific creative just hoisted some of Netflix’s biggest audience numbers of the year with Monster - The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and The Watcher. But just because Netflix could have expanded both limited series into multi-season enterprises doesn’t mean it should have. We won’t get into it again how The Watcher took Next TV — which had been hooked by episode 3 — down with it off a creative cliff with its convoluted ending in episode 7. But it's been the decision to expand Monster into an anthology series, transforming it into a full  “universe” of serial killers (Netflix’s words), that’s drawn all the ire on social media. “They’re franchising a bunch of psychotic, misogynistic serial killers like they're the f***ing Avengers,” tweeted one unhappy social media denizen. 

Chris Licht - The man brought in by David Zaslav to replace CNN chief Jeff Zucker, and ostensibly restore centrism and ratings sense to the network, just laid a pretty big egg with what is always one of cable news’ biggest nights, the midterm elections. The presumed radical lefties at MSNBC beat the Wolf Blitzer-less CNN in primetime election coverage on Tuesday night with a 3.2 million to 2.6 million viewer advantage. Granted, the overall audience for Tuesday’s midterms — which determined if candidates with absolutely no faith in the election process assumed lever-arm control of it on a national and state level — was somehow the smallest it has been for a midterm since 2014. But if you’re gonna come in cracking skulls and tanking morale, you better produce some damned audience ratings. 

Spectrum Internet - The Former Guy’s decision to gut the U.S. Postal Service ahead of the 2020 election has left a lasting imprint here at Next TV’s West Adams District headquarters in Los Angeles. The two mailboxes at our duplex remain festooned with not only our own spam mail from Charter Communications, but also the cable come-ons being sent to no less than five generations of occupants who lived here prior to our October 2016 purchase of the property. (There’s simply no effective, easy way anymore to tell the USPS that a previous occupant no longer lives at your house.) If I had kept all of the promotional mail sent by Charter over this six-year span, I would have a stack tall enough to reach the highest T-Mobile 5G tower, where affordable $50-a-month fixed-wireless-access home internet is being transmitted and received every damned second of every damned day. Instead, Next TV has chosen to further fill local landfills with Charter's wasteful paper marketing refuse … while we also continue paying Charter $74.99 a month — nay, $79.99 a month, after the just imposed price increase for broadband-only customers — for 300 Mbps, last-generation DOCSIS 3.0 Spectrum Internet service. With no managed Wi-Fi. On top of that, we have to listen to Charter execs wax on during earnings reports about how unhappy we’ll be with the performance of FWA services if we choose to switch. Well, sir, we just might have to see for ourselves, won’t we? 

The Watcher, a Ryan Murphy drama series based on a real crime, is on Netflix October 13. After a family moves into what was supposed to be their dream home in the New Jersey suburbs, it quickly becomes a living hell. Letters from someone calling themself The Watcher are just the beginning as the neighborhood's sinister secrets start to spill out. 

Bobby Cannavale and Naomi Watts play the Brannocks, who purchased a home in cozy Westfield, New Jersey. They soon realize the neighborhood is a bit odd. There's a peculiar older woman named Pearl (Mia Farrow) and her brother Jasper (Terry Kinney), who sneaks into the Brannock house and hides in their dumbwaiter. There's Karen (Jennifer Coolidge), the realtor and an old acquaintance of Nora's (Watts), who makes them feel like they don't really belong, and nosy neighbors Mitch (Richard Kind) and Mo (Margo Martindale), who don't seem to understand property lines. 

Then the letters from The Watcher arrive. 

There are seven episodes. 

Murphy created the series with Ian Brennan. They executive produce with Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Kovtun, Bryan Unkeless, Eric Newman, Paris Barclay, Naomi Watts, Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost and Scoop Wasserstein.

Murphy’s work includes Glee, American Crime Story, 9-1-1 and American Horror Story. ■

Hulu looks to frighten viewers a second time around according to a new trailer for the sophomore season of the streaming service’s American Horror Stories, debuting July 21.

American Horror Stories, a spinoff of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s anthology series American Horror Story on FX, features a new and different horror-themed story each episode, according to Hulu.

Produced by 20th Television, American Horror Stories is executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Alexis Martin Woodall, John J. Gray and Manny Coto. ■️

FX hosts a five-episode Impeachment: American Crime Story marathon Saturday, Oct. 9. The event starts at 6 p.m. ET/PT and shows the episodes in order. 

Beanie Feldstein plays Lewinsky, Sarah Paulson portrays Tripp and Annaleigh Ashford plays Jones. Clive Owen plays President Clinton and Edie Falco plays Hillary. 

The episodes include “Exiles”, “The President Kissed Me”, “Not to be Believed”, “The Telephone Hour” and “Do You Hear What I Hear?”

Episode six is on FX Oct. 12. It sees the Office of the Independent Counsel hold Lewinsky for 12 traumatizing hours in a hotel room. Ryan Murphy directs.  

The first installment of American Crime Story looked at O.J. Simpson and the second depicted Gianni Versace. 

Impeachment: American Crime Story is executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Sarah Burgess, Sarah Paulson, Brad Falchuk, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski and Michael Uppendahl. The series is produced by 20th Television and FX Productions.

 FX on Hulu will launch Ryan Murphy’s latest takeoff on the American Horror Story franchise, American Horror Stories, on July 15.

The weekly anthology series showcases a different horror story each episode, according to the streaming service. Season 10 of FX’s original Emmy Award-winning American Horror Story series debuts on the network on Aug. 25. The series has already been renewed for seasons 11, 12 and 13. 

American Horror Stories is executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Alexis Martin Woodall, John J. Gray and Manny Coto.

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Netflix released the trailer for its limited series produced by Ryan Murphy, Hollywood. The series will premiere Friday May 1.

Hollywood takes place during the post-WWII era following a group of aspiring actors as they try to make it in Tinseltown. "Each character offers a unique glimpse behind the gilded curtain of Hollywood's Golden Age," Netflix said in a press release, "spotlighting the unfair biases across race, gender, sexuality that continue to this day."

Along with Ryan Murphy, Hollywood is produced by Ian Brennan, Alexis Martin Woodall and Janet Mock. Mock also serves as writer and director. The cast includes Darren Criss, David Corenswet, Jim Parsons, Patti LuPone, Jeremy Pope, Laura Harrier, Samara Weaving, Dylan McDermott, Holland Taylor, Jake Picking, Joe Mantello and Maude Apatow.

Netflix is amping up its originals slate, putting 85% of all new spending toward content production, chief content officer Ted Sarandos said.

Speaking at MoffettNathanson’s Media & Communications Summit Monday (May 14), Sarandos said the SVOD service expects to have nearly 1,000 originals by the end of the year, about half of which have not yet premiered.

The OTT juggernaut added 7.41 million streaming subscribers worldwide in the first quarter, bringing its global customer base to about 125 million, and it leads the pack in a category forecast to continue booming. Following a gain of 41% in 2017, U.S. OTT revenue is expected to grow another 40% this year, reaching $16.6 billion, according to Convergence Research Group's study The Battle for the American Couch Potato: OTT, TV, Online.

Against that backdrop, Netflix apparently believes Peak TV's apex is still to come.

But while Sarandos evangelized Netflix's content vision, he dampened speculation that Netflix has aspirations in sports and news, saying the company has no plans at this time to pursue either.

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New Production Deals

Among the most high-profile of Netflix's programming investments is an exclusive production deal with writer/producer/director Ryan Murphy that kicks in July 1. Two new Murphy-produced original series are already lined up, Ratched and The Politician. 

Before luring Murphy away from his FX deal earlier this year, Netflix last summer signed prolific series creator Shonda Rhimes, long attached to ABC, to a multi-year production deal.

Recent new series orders include sci-fi drama Another Life, starring Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica), and multi-camera comedy series Mr. Iglesias, starring Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias, whose deal includes two stand-up specials as well.

Upcoming Returns

Netflix on Wednesday (May 16) released its first look at season four of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which returns this month. The season will play out in two halves, with six episodes launching May 30.

Other upcoming returns include Arrested Development (May 29) and GLOW (June 29).

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FX will remain a formidable player in the original scripted programming arena despite prolific show producer Ryan Murphy's new Netflix deal, according to FX Networks and FX Productions CEO John Landgraf.

Landgraf, in a statement reacting to Monday night’s (Feb. 12) bombshell news that Murphy – who produced several successful FX series including Nip/Tuck and American Horror Story -- has signed an exclusive, multi-year deal with Netflix, said that FX has more than 20 scripted original series on its schedule or coming up that will continue to keep the network among the cable industry's leaders.

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He added that the network looks forward to continuing to work with Murphy for the four FX shows currently on air or in development: anthology series American Horror Story (renewed through season nine), and American Crime Story (renewed for a third season), Feud (renewed for a second season) and the upcoming series Pose.

“For more than 15 years, we have enjoyed an outstanding partnership with Ryan Murphy and we look forward to continuing that relationship on our four shows under his creative leadership,” Landgraf said. “With more than 20 scripted original series on our schedule or upcoming, FX has a very successful track record of identifying and developing talented writers who have produced award-winning hit shows and it will continue to do so.  The network has an outstanding slate of development and FX Productions has the finest roster of producers in our history.  We will continue to provide creative freedom and support for artists of all backgrounds to tell diverse stories and do their best work.”

Prolific producer, director and writer Ryan Murphy is the latest big name talent to defect to Netflix from the television industry, signing an exclusive multi-year production deal with the streaming service.

The groundbreaking deal calls for Murphy, who has produced such Emmy Award-winning shows as FX's The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Feud and American Horror Story – as well as breakout new Fox broadcasting series 9-1-1 – to produce new series and films exclusively at Netflix beginning July 1, according to the service. 

Murphy’s move from traditional television and cable networks to the digital streaming service follows producer/creator Shonda Rhimes, who signed an exclusive deal with Netflix in August after producing such shows as Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder for broadcast network ABC.

Netflix is already slated to premiere two new Murphy-produced original series, Ratched and The Politician.

“Ryan Murphy’s series have influenced the global cultural zeitgeist, reinvented genres and changed the course of television history,” said Ted Sarandos, chief content officer at Netflix, in a statement. “His unfaltering dedication to excellence and to give voice to the underrepresented, to showcase a unique perspective or just to shock the hell out of us, permeates his genre-shattering work. From Nip/Tuck -- our first licensed series -- to American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson and American Horror Story, we’ve seen how his brand of storytelling captivates consumers and critics across the globe. His celebrated body of work and his contributions to our industry speak for themselves, and we look forward to supporting Ryan in bringing his broad and diverse stories to the world.”

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The deal comes two months after 20th Century Fox agreed to sell key content assets to the Walt Disney Co., including its movie and television production studios and cable networks FX, FXX and National Geographic. While Murphy's current FX and Fox shows will repotedly remain on their respective channels, his depature is a major loss for the company. 

Murphy in a statement said: "The history of this moment is not lost on me. I am a gay kid from Indiana who moved to Hollywood in 1989 with $55 dollars in savings in my pocket, so the fact that my dreams have crystallized and come true in such a major way is emotional and overwhelming to me. I am awash in genuine appreciation for Ted Sarandos, Reed Hastings and Cindy Holland at Netflix for believing in me and the future of my company, which will continue to champion women, minorities and LGBTQ heroes and heroines, and I am honored and grateful to continue my partnership with my friends and peers at Fox on our existing shows."

FX’s anthology series American Horror Story: Cult drew 6.9 million viewers on a Nielsen Live +3 basis for its Sept. 5 premiere, said network officials.

The Ryan Murphy-produced series – the seventh iteration of the American Horror Story anthology franchise – also drew 4.5 million adult 18-49 viewers, making it the second most-watched basic cable entertainment program of 2017 year-to-date in both the demo and on a total audience basis behind AMC’s The Walking Dead, said network officials.

Including non-linear viewing, the series averaged 6.91 million total viewers for its premiere telecast, said FX.

Producer Ryan Murphy is behind Half, an initiative within Ryan Murphy Television that aims to make Hollywood more inclusive by creating more opportunities for women and minorities behind the camera.

Less than one year after launching Half, Ryan Murphy Television’s director slate hired 60% women directors, and 94% met the minority requirement.

In collaboration with FX Networks and its chief, John Landgraf, the director slate increased from 12% female/diverse directors in 2015 to 51% in 2016 for the network.

“I love looking around my company and empowering inclusion in all departments,” Murphy said. “I recently led a production meeting and was proud to see that more than half of the people sitting at the table were women and minorities. That’s the way it should be.”

Murphy’s productions include American Crime Story, American Horror Story and Feud.

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Half launched a Directing Mentorship Program in which every director on every Ryan Murphy Television production mentors emerging directors through pre-production to post-production, along with offering a significant stipend for their commitment.

The Directing Mentorship Program had 29 participants in 2016 and has added 30 participants in 2017, providing more than $200,000 in financial aid to help cover travel, lodging and daycare for working mothers. Three participants in the Directing Program became first time episodic directors.

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Half also has collaborated with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to create an internship program for under-represented youth in conjunction with the California Film Commission. Murphy joined Garcetti’s Advisory Board on the Entertainment Inclusion Fund.

Read more at broadcastingcable.com.

FX has greenlit a second season of its anthology series Feud, which will focus on the relationship between Prince Charles and Princess Diana, the network said Tuesday.

The announcement of the second season of Feud comes days before the March 5 premiere of Feud: Bette and Joan, which chronicles the battle between rival actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.

Feud: Bette and Joan executive producer Ryan Murphy will also serve as executive producer of the 10-episode Feud: Charles and Diana, which will debut in 2018, according to FX. Jon Robin Baitz (Brothers & Sisters), Dede Gardner, Plan B Entertainment and Alexis Martin Woodall will also serve as executive producers for Feud: Charles and Diana.

Having enjoyed great success with its true-crime limited series People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, FX is tapping the true Hollywood genre for its next big hit, Feud: Bette and Joan.

Producer Ryan Murphy, who helmed The People v. O.J. Simpson, takes the reins of this eight-part limited series, which chronicles the backstage battle between aging stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis during the filming of their only project together, the 1962 cult classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

The series stars Jessica Lange as Crawford and Susan Sarandon as Davis at the twilight of their careers in the early 1960s, a time when both actresses were unable to secure leading roles in a youth-dominated Hollywood. Particularly bitter about her treatment is Crawford, who — in one of the first scenes in the series — scowls at younger actress Marilyn Monroe after the Some Like It Hot wins the Golden Globe for best actress. As Monroe parades up to receive her reward, a petulant Crawford startles everyone at her table, saying, “I’ve got great tits, too, but I don’t throw them in everyone’s face.”

Recently widowed and nearly broke, Crawford looks for a script to mark her triumphant return to the screen, and finds the perfect vehicle in a horror-thriller book about the lives of two aging actresses, an invalid and her abusive custodian. She convinces her nemesis Davis — now in her 50s and forced to turn to Broadway for roles — to be her co-star in the film.

While Crawford and Davis realize they need each other to relaunch their movie careers, their often-petty competitiveness threatens to torpedo What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? before it delivers on the first dollar at the box office.

The Crawford-Davis grudge is legendary. But as with The People v. O.J. Simpson, the anticipation of how the story will unwind is the biggest draw. Murphy continues his mastery of retelling stories that have been examined, poked and explored numerous times, while wrapping the familiar storyline into a broader context — this time, sexism in Hollywood.

Feud benefits from terrific performances by Lange and Sarandon, as well as a supporting cast that includes Judy Davis as notorious gossip columnist Hedda Hopper and Alfred Molina as director Robert Aldrich.

FX has greenlit a spinoff of its Ryan Murphy-created American Horror Story franchise that will look at true crime stories, the network said Tuesday.

The 10-episode series, American Crime Story, will be directed by Murphy and will focus on the infamous O.J. Simpson murder trial that took place in the mid-1990s. The series will be based on the Jeffrey Toobin book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson, said network officials.

Murphy will also serve as executive producer of the mini-series, alongside Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson (The Hunger Games, Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and Brad Falchuk (Glee, American Horror Story.)

“Time and time again, Ryan Murphy has transformed the medium of television by redefining genres and formats as he did with Nip/Tuck, Glee and the American Horror Story franchise, and we expect the same of American Crime Story,” said FX and FX Productions CEO John Landgraf.  "Scott and Larry have adapted Jeffrey Toobin’s book into a masterful 10-hour piece. I have no doubt that Ryan and his partners, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Brad Falchuk, and Dante Di Loreto are going to make something very memorable here – and that it will be a spectacular first entry in what is destined to become a series of great true crime-based miniseries."

A new season of American Horror Story, dubbed Freakshow, will launch on Wednesday night.