'Better Call Saul' producer Mark Johnson's 'Demascus' series has been axed at AMC.
Demascus, a sci-fi comedy series, is the latest victim of AMC's aggressive cost-cutting measures. The series, which was already in production, was to have been executive produced by playwright Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm and Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul executive producer Mark Johnson. Deadline reported the cancelation, which comes on the heels of AMC axing a number of other series that, like Demascus, had entered production.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY AMC has run into financial difficulty as of late, as the media sector feels a fiscal crunch; late last year, after the departure of CEO Christina Spade, new interim CEO James L. Dolan announced the company was instituting large-scale layoffs and taking a $400 million financial writedown. This amounts to wiping content off its slate entirely in order to achieve a tax write-off, similar to what Warner Bros.
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