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Fargo Season Four Comes To Channel 4 This Spring

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6 years ago

March 10, 2021

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It’s been a few months since it was on FX in the US but it has just been announced that Noah Hawley’s fourth season of Fargo, this time starring Chris Rock, will be coming to Channel 4 in the UK. Here’s a few details from Radio Times…

Fargo season four will be airing weekly in the UK on Channel 4, the broadcaster confirmed in March 2021.

Chris Rock takes on a rare dramatic role as a crime boss and leads the (typically stellar) cast in the brand new crime story, set in 1950’s Kansas City.

The stand-up comedian plays Loy Cannon, the boss of an African American crime syndicate operating in Kansas, and claims it’s the best role he has ever been given.

Nick Lee, Head of Acquisitions & International at Channel 4 said: “We are thrilled to bring back the biggest and most gripping Fargo yet, with some absolutely unmissable performances. Fargo explores a breadth of engaging and complex storylines and it’s a fantastic opportunity to bring this unique cinematic show to our audiences once again.”

The plot this season revolves around an uneasy truce behind Cannon’s organisation and their rival Italian gang, brokered by the exchange of each family’s youngest son.

If previous years of Fargo are anything to go by, chaos will follow as unforeseen ramifications emerge and take the characters in surprising directions.

The cast also includes Jessie Buckley, Timothy Olyphant, Jack Huston and Ben Whishaw, the latter of whom is playing a Rabbi who appears to be connected to a memorable season two villain.

Filming on the new series was halted back in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, leaving two episodes unfinished and a premiere date uncertain.

Fortunately, the cast and crew were able to reunite in Chicago in the summertime, finally wrapping filming in early September and allowing FX to pencil it into their schedule.

FX Networks and FX Productions chairman John Landgraf spoke about how they accomplished the impressive feat of completing an ambitious drama under pandemic conditions (via Deadline).

He explained: “This involves repeated testing, contact tracing and isolation, sometimes quarantining for periods of time, and isolating as many segments of the crew from each other, so if there is some infection among the crew, it doesn’t spread.

“This involves putting certainly the actors, and everyone who comes in contact with them, inside a rigorously-controlled bubble as we possibly can. There’s also extensive use of social distancing and medical consultation.”

As for what the future holds, showrunner Noah Hawley says he isn’t ruling out a fifth season of the hit crime drama, but it relies entirely on him landing upon a strong enough idea.

Here’s a taster of the fourth season