Exclusive: Imperative Entertainment, the company behind the Boomtown podcast, which is being adapted into a Billy Bob Thornton-fronted series from Taylor Sheridan, has set its latest Texas podcast.
The company has teamed with Wes Ferguson on Standoff, a series about Fred Gomez Carrasco, a drug cartel kingpin and orchestrator of the 1974 Huntsville, Texas, prison siege.
Ferguson, whose Texas Monthly article “When ‘Angels in America’ Came to East Texas” is being developed as a limited series for HBO Max, is the creator and host of the podcast, which explores the siege that was one of the most infamous hostage crises in American history and played out in dramatic fashion over 11 days, all in front of a terrified national audience.
The 10-part series, which launches March 21, will feature 100 hours of audio containing the actual hostage negotiations and the deadly shoot-out.
Produced by Imperative, it is exec produced by the company’s President of Podcasts Jason Hoch.
The company has teamed with Wes Ferguson on Standoff, a series about Fred Gomez Carrasco, a drug cartel kingpin and orchestrator of the 1974 Huntsville, Texas, prison siege.
Ferguson, whose Texas Monthly article “When ‘Angels in America’ Came to East Texas” is being developed as a limited series for HBO Max, is the creator and host of the podcast, which explores the siege that was one of the most infamous hostage crises in American history and played out in dramatic fashion over 11 days, all in front of a terrified national audience.
The 10-part series, which launches March 21, will feature 100 hours of audio containing the actual hostage negotiations and the deadly shoot-out.
Produced by Imperative, it is exec produced by the company’s President of Podcasts Jason Hoch.
- 3/16/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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