THE AUDACITY
Section: TV Premiere
Creator: Jonathan Glatzer
Logline: Set inside the bubble of Silicon Valley, The Audacity takes on the warped dreams, outsized egos, and ethical lapses of the self-styled inventors of the future. In a world of jaded billionaires, psychiatrist-gurus, bio-hacked tech bros, AI labs and disillusioned teens being optimized in elite private schools, an audacious data-mining CEO (Billy Magnussen) strives to turn insight and influence into profit and power. The darkly comedic drama confronts reality, privacy, and the delusions fueling our ever-changing world.
Panelists: Billy Magnussen, Lucy Punch, Simon Helberg, Rob Corddry, Meaghan Rath, Paul Adelstein
Distributor: AMC
Premiered: March 14, 2026
Key Quote: “There are timely topics on the show. I’m definitely not claiming to be a tech expert or anything, but I think it’s the humanity that Jonathan Glatzer has put into these characters. The show is about people that went into this world with good intentions, wanting to build the perfect product. And they’re flawed themselves, and then they had money added onto that power wealth. But the story that’s fun is the corruption of that power, the weight of all that stuff, and these people trying to be these larger-than-life titans in this world, but they’re still just humans that have faults,” explained Magnussen, before Helberg noted, “There’s something that feels urgent about this story. At least, the way that I see it, when we were going to work, it feels like, ‘We better tell this story now, because this is also going to be a headline in six hours.’”
Deadline Studio at SXSW presented by Redbreast Irish Whiskey.
