{"id":894029,"date":"2026-09-13T09:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T09:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894029\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T09:14:17","slug":"american-hostage-at-tiff-premiere-shoutout-to-winnipeg-its-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894029\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN HOSTAGE at TIFF Premiere: Shoutout to Winnipeg! It’s Cold!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Winnipeg is cold. So cold but I loved it. I have so much respect for the people of Winnipeg who bike and ice skate to work. It\u2019s freezing there. Like I don\u2019t recommend it in the Winter. I want you to promise me you\u2019re not going to go there in the Winter.<\/p>\n

The American Hostage cast spoke about shooting the series in a Winnipeg winter at the show\u2019s world premiere of its pilot episodes in TIFF\u2019s Primetime program.<\/p>\n

While there were shoutouts to the film crew, local talent , film commission and friendly citizens, most couldn\u2019t get over how cold it was.<\/p>\n

On set in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

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American Hostage, starring Jon Hamm as a real-life Indianapolis radio host thrust into a 36-hour hostage crisis, gets its regular premiere September 20th on MGM+.<\/p>\n

American Hostage is psychological thriller that tells the harrowing true story of Fred Heckman (Jon Hamm), a beloved Indianapolis radio reporter who is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker Tony Kiritsis (Giovanni Ribisi)\u00a0demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The series is an adaptation of the\u00a0acclaimed first season of the scripted podcast of the same name.<\/p>\n

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On the air.<\/p>\n

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Mireille Enos and Jon Hamm.<\/p>\n

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Related: American Hostage Season One With Jon Hamm in Production in Winnipeg<\/a><\/p>\n

American Hostage\u00a0-Season One:<\/p>\n

Working title: SHORTWAVE<\/p>\n

Winnipeg filming dates: November 03 2025 \u2013 February 05 2026<\/p>\n

Showrunners: Shawn Ryan, Eileen Myers\u00a0<\/p>\n

Director: Adam Arkin.<\/p>\n

Cast: Jon Hamm, Giovanni Ribisi, Mireille Enos, William Jackson Harper, Kristoffer Polaha.<\/p>\n

Producers: Middkid Productions, Forward Entertainment. Sony Pictures Television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg is cold. So cold but I loved it. I have so much respect for the people of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[287543,49,48,309687,309688,33141,309689,904,309690,309691,309692,22073],"class_list":["post-894029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-american-hostage","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eileen-myers","tag-giovanni-ribisi","tag-jon-hamm","tag-kristoffer-polaha","tag-manitoba","tag-mireille-enos","tag-shawn-ryuan","tag-william-jackson-harper","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}