TV Talk: Pittsburgh-filmed series 'Manhunt: Deadly Games' premiering on CBS
The series “Manhunt: Deadly Games,” which filmed in Pittsburgh from June to October 2019, will finally be available for local viewers to watch when it advances to its second window of distribution, premiering at 10 p.m. Sept. 21 on CBS’s KDKA-TV.
“Manhunt: Deadly Games” was produced for Spectrum Originals, which premiered the show in February. But Spectrum Originals is only available to Spectrum cable subscribers and there are no Spectrum cable systems in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
The first season of “Manhunt,” which aired on Discovery in 2017, chronicled the Unabomber case and was originally going to film in Pittsburgh before relocating to Atlanta.
Ironically, season two, which is set in Atlanta, came to Pittsburgh to film.
Originally titled “Manhunt: Lone Wolf,” the 10-episode “Manhunt: Deadly Games” follows the aftermath of the 1996 terrorist bombing of the Olympics in Atlanta where a security guard, Richard Jewell (Cameron Britton, who played serial killer Ed Kemper on filmed-in-Pittsburgh Netflix drama “Mindhunter”), was first treated as a hero for finding the bomb and saving bystanders before he became a suspect. Months later, law enforcement began to home in on the actual killer, Eric Rudolph (Jack Huston).
Carnegie Mellon University grad Judith Light (“Transparent”) stars as Jewell’s mother in the series, produced by Lionsgate Television and Spectrum.
CBS added “Manhunt: Deadly Games” to its pandemic-necessitated interim fall schedule as its regular lineup gears back up for production.
In addition to “Manhunt,” CBS will air the first season of “Star Trek: Discovery” (10 p.m. Sept. 24), which was overseen by showrunners Aaron Harberts and Franklin Park native Gretchen Berg for streaming service CBS All Access.
A new season of “Undercover Boss” joins the schedule at 9 p.m. Friday starting Oct. 2. It will be paired with “The Greatest #AtHome Videos” (8 p.m. Sept. 25), a continuation of an occasional home video show that first aired earlier this year and is hosted by Cedric the Entertainer.
Former Netflix series “One Day at a Time,” now airing on Pop TV, will air back-to-back episodes from its recent fourth season at 9 and 9:30 p.m. beginning Oct. 12.
“The Amazing Race” finally unspools its 32nd season, filmed in late 2018, at 9 p.m. Oct. 14 before moving to its regular time period, 8 p.m. on Oct. 28, which is the night the current season of “Big Brother,” featuring Shaler native Ian Terry, has its 22nd season finale. CBS’s “Love Island” will wrap its second season at 8 p.m. Sept. 29.
Non-fiction series “The FBI Files Declassified,” from producers of CBS News’ “48 Hours,” premieres at 10 p.m. Oct. 13.
CBS’s regular series are expected to return to the network with new episodes later this year, possibly as soon as November.
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