FX's Impeachment: American Crime Story may not air until after the 2020 election

TVLine

The Bill Clinton impeachment scandal limited series from Ryan Murphy that counts Monica Lewinsky as a producer won't premiere in September, as scheduled, FX announced this morning. FX's announcement last summer that Impeachment: American Crime Story would premiere shortly before the 2020 presidential election sparked controversy because of concerns Clinton's 1998 impeachment would actually become a talking point during the election. FX CEO John Landgraf announced at the TV press tour this morning that Impeachment is being delayed due to Murphy's busy schedule, not because of the controversy. Murphy is currently directing a film and won't be available to start making Impeachment until late March. “So that means we won’t be physically done actually shooting the episodes until October, because of the long production," Langraf told reporters. "So I think we initially announced that we’d air in September, and I don’t think that’s reasonable, frankly, given that it won’t finish production until October. As for when we’ll schedule it… we don’t know. We sort of have to get into production, sort of see how the production goes, how long the production is going to be. So I guess I would say it’s TBD at this point, but I don’t think we’ll make it by September.”