{"id":851060,"date":"2026-08-11T05:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851060\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T05:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:04:14","slug":"emmy-winner-jon-hamm-leads-american-hostage-the-high-stakes-psychological-thriller-premiering-september-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851060\/","title":{"rendered":"EMMY\u00ae WINNER JON HAMM LEADS AMERICAN HOSTAGE, THE HIGH-STAKES PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER PREMIERING SEPTEMBER 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

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American Hostage tells the harrowing 1970s true story of a beloved radio reporter thrust into a life-or-death crisis when a hostage-taker demands to be interviewed on his program.<\/p>\n

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August 11, 2026 \u2013 Inspired by a true story and based on the acclaimed first season of the scripted podcast of the same name, American Hostage starring Emmy\u00ae winner Jon Hamm (Your Friends & Neighbors, Fargo, Mad Men) will premiere September 20, only on Stan.<\/p>\n

A psychological thriller set in the 1970s, American Hostage tells the harrowing true story of Fred Heckman, a beloved Indianapolis radio reporter who is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker Tony Kiritsis demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program.<\/p>\n

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The series stars Hamm as Fred Heckman, alongside Emmy\u00ae Award nominee Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar, On the Verge, Sneaky Pete) as Tony Kiritsis. The cast also includes Kristoffer Polaha (Jurassic World: Dominion, Life Unexpected, Mad Men) as Dick Hall, Emmy\u00ae Award nominee Mireille Enos (For All Mankind, Hanna, The Killing) as Barbara Heckman, and Emmy\u00ae Award nominee William Jackson Harper (Love Life, The Underground Railroad, The Good Place) as Ben Hairston.<\/p>\n

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American Hostage is produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Television. Executive producers include Emmy\u00ae Award nominee Shawn Ryan (The Night Agent, S.W.A.T., The Shield), Eileen Myers (Big Love, Mad Dogs), Hamm (Your Friends & Neighbors, American Hostage Podcast Series, Mad Men), Connie Tavel (Your Friends & Neighbors, Grimsburg), Marney Hochman (S.W.A.T., The Night Agent, Timeless), Sharon Hoffman (House of Cards), Academy Award\u00ae winner Shawn Christensen (American Hostage Podcast Series, Curfew), and Gabriel Mason (American Hostage Podcast Series, Abduction).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Hostage tells the harrowing 1970s true story of a beloved radio reporter thrust into a life-or-death crisis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-851060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}