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Mr. Mercedes Director Jack Bender on Adapting Stephen King and the Importance of Bill Hodges Morning Leak
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Over his more than 40-year career, Stephen King has frightened a countless number of readers with his tales of the supernatural, whether those stories focus on telekinetic teens, cars coming to life, or beings from other realms, but he isn t limited to just the horror genre, as evidenced in his trilogy of Bill Hodges books. Throughout the series, the detective uncovered a variety of mysteries, largely focusing on the notorious killer Mr. Mercedes. When it came time for these dark and twisted detective stories to be brought to life for AT&T Audience Network s
Next week,
Mr. Mercedes, the acclaimed crime drama based on Stephen King s novel of the same name, will make its debut on SYFY for viewers who perhaps haven t seen the more hard-boiled side of King s imagination. The series premiered on the Audience network all the way back in 2017 and more recently was moved over to NBCUniversal s new streaming service, Peacock, but no matter how available a show is, there are always outliers who
mean to watch something but never actually find the time. If that s you, then the show s SYFY premiere might just be your chance to dig into this tense cat-and-mouse story of a retired cop and the brutal cold case he just can t leave behind.
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The Equalizer” and “The Silence of the Lambs” sequel series “
Clarice” following their broadcast debuts on
CBS. “The Equalizer” premieres on CBS immediately after Super Bowl LV on Feb. 7 and “Clarice” kicks off on Feb. 11 at 10 p.m. In addition,
Amazon Prime Video will offer the pilot of both series in front of its paywall and
YouTube will run the episodes for free on its CBS channel.
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Mr. Mercedes” to its content library on
March 4, with all 10 episodes dropping at once. The show originally ran the Audience Network from 2017 to 2019. (Season 3 episodes first premiered in September 2019.) Peacock picked up “Mr. Mercedes” in September 2020 after the network shuttered last spring. The first two seasons are currently available on the streaming service. The series is based on the story based on a trilogy of