FX orders Ryan Murphy's American Sports Story and American Love Story

The Hollywood Reporter

While Ryan Murphy has a megadeal with Netflix, he's still not done expanding his American Story franchise on FX. FX has ordered two more anthology series spinoffs of the franchise that has produced American Horror Story, American Horror Stories and American Crime Story. FX says American Sports Story will "expand the franchise to re-examine a prominent event involving a sports figure through the prism of today’s world and will tell the story from multiple perspectives," starting with the late NFL tight end Aaron Hernandez. The first season will be based on the Boston Globe and Wondery podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. Season 1 will be written by The Americans writer Stu Zicherman. American Love Story, meanwhile, will chart the whirlwind courtship and marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. "What started out as a beautiful union for the young couple, widely regarded as American royalty, began to fray under the stress of the relentless microscope and navel gaze of tabloid media," per The Hollywood Reporter. "The pressures of their careers and rumored family discord ended with their tragic deaths when his private plane crashed into the ocean on a hazy summer night off the coast of Massachusetts." Walt Disney TV entertainment chairman Dana Walden says of the two new shows: "More than a decade ago, Ryan Murphy expressed interest in expanding the American Horror Story model to be able to tell different American stories, which have long captivated so many of us. It was a brilliant idea."