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Matt Olmstead To Run NBC’s ‘Chicago Fire’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 15, 2012 @ 12:04pm PDTTags: Breakout Kings, Chicago Fire, Matt Olmstead
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Matt Olmstead Chicago FireBreakout Kings co-creator/executive producer Matt Olmstead is joining NBC’s new drama series Chicago Fire as executive producer/showrunner. Written by feature writers Derek Haas and Michael Brandt (3:10 To Yuma), Chicago Fire chronicles the lives of the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51. Jesse Spencer, Taylor Kinney lead the cast of the show, which includes Eamonn Walker, Charlie Barnett, David Eigenberg, Monica Raymund, Lauren German, Teri Reeves and Merle Dandridge. Chicago Fire is produced by Universal TV and Wolf Films, with Dick Wolf, Peter Jankowski and Danielle Gelber executive producing. Jeffrey Nachmanoff directed the pilot.

Related: NBC Renews ‘Law & Order: SVU’, Picks Up ‘Chicago Fire’, Inks New Deal With Dick Wolf

Before A&E Network’s Breakout Kings, WME-repped Olmstead was an executive producer on Prison Break, which he also ran, and NYPD Blue. The future of Breakout Kings – which Olmstead co-created and exec produces with Nick Santora — after the current second season has not been determined, but its chances of continuing are not considered great.

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TCA: AMC’ ‘The Killing’, A&E’s ‘Breakout Kings’ Get Premiere Dates

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 7, 2011 @ 10:25am PSTTags: A&E Breakout Kings, AMC, AMC The Killing, Breakout Kings, Cable TV, Matt Olmstead, Mireille Enos, Nick Santora, TCA, Television Critics Association, The Killing, TV
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At TCA this morning, AMC and A&E announced premiere dates for their upcoming new original scripted series.

AMC’s The Killing, a crime thriller from writer/executive producer/showrunner Veena Sud, which is based on the successful Danish series Forbrydelsen, will debut on April 3 in the Sunday 10 PM time slot. Mireille … Read More »

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Exclusive Teaser: A&E’s ‘Breakout Kings’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday October 1, 2010 @ 9:14pm PDTTags: A&E, A&E Breakout Kings, Breakout Kings, Cable TV, Lone Star Cancelled, Matt Olmstead, Nick Santora, TV
Nellie Andreeva

Below is the first teaser for the new A&E drama series Breakout Kings, premiering during the season finale of The Glades this Sunday. Breakout Kings was passed over by fox and then beat the odds and found a second life on A&E, which picked it up with a 13-episode order. … Read More »

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