EPIX sets premiere date for Get Shorty
Michelle Clancy
| 17 May 2017

Premium cable network EPIX has set 13 August as the premiere date for its original series Get Shorty.

Get Shorty 17 May 2017The ten-episode dark comedy from MGM Television, based in part on the 1990 best-selling novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard, follows Miles Daly, a hitman from Nevada who tries to become a movie producer in Hollywood.

There, he meets Rick Moreweather, a washed-up producer of low-quality films who is desperately hanging on to the rungs of Hollywood relevancy and begrudgingly becomes Miles’ partner and guide through the maze of show business. Along with his criminal associate Louis, Miles attempts to keep his worlds from colliding as he balances the demands of filmmaking while keeping the suspicions of the crime ring’s chief – and production bankroll – at bay.

Get Shorty is the third original series premiere for EPIX, joining its drama Berlin Station and comedy Graves. Both series are slated to return for second seasons in 2017.