Godfather of Harlem tells the true story of infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson (Whitaker), who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy must take on the Genovese crime family to regain control. During the brutal battle, he forms an alliance with radical preacher Malcolm X – catching Malcolm’s political rise in the crosshairs of social upheaval and a mob war that threatens to tear the city apart. Godfather of Harlem is a collision of the criminal underworld and the civil rights movement during one of the most tumultuous times in American history.

Starring Forest Whitaker (Black Panther) as Bumpy Johnson, Nigel Thatch (Valor) as Malcolm X, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy as Elise, Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil) as Vincent Giganter, Ilfenesh Hadera (Billions) as Mayme Johnsom, Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad) as Adam Clayton Powell, and Rafi Gavron (A Star Is Born) as Ernie Nunzi.

Godfather of Harlem premieres September 29th on Epix.

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Pennyworth follows Bruce Wayne’s legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company and goes to work with Thomas Wayne, Bruce’s billionaire father, in 1960’s London.

In an interview with comicbook.com, executive producers Danny Cannon and Bruno Heller aimed to make the series more like a gritty James Bond movie.

“I went back and watched Michael Caine’s Harry Palmer movies, and the first couple of James Bond movies, because going back to that Cold War kind of story telling I liked going back into this period because all of our Berlin movies and Russian espionage movies, it was like the British version of westerns,” Cannon said. “Like there was a wild west quality to the Cold War. Because after the war was done, we knew that there was a nuclear bomb, and we were capable of terrible things, but the spying and the style in which it was done, and the dignity with which it was done, and the charm with which it was done I thought all reminded me of what Bruno had been talking about. So going back to those movies, and watching what was good about Michael Caine back there was he didn’t hide his accent. And the fact that Harry Palmer was very unpopular, but he just got the job done. Because he called everything as it was. His feet were firmly placed in the ground, he’d look people in the eye and I really appreciated that, James Bond, same thing too.”

Starring Jack Bannon (Ripper Street), Ben Aldridge (Fleabag), Paloma Faith (Youth), Hainsley Lloyd Bennett (King of Crime), and Emma Corrin (The Crown).

Pennyworth premieres July 28th on EPIX.

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Perpetual Grace, LTD. is a 10-episode modern noir drama, which follows James, a young grifter, as he attempts to prey upon Pastor Byron Brown, who turns out to be far more dangerous than he suspects. The pastor and his wife Lillian—known to their parishioners as Pa and Ma—have used religion to bilk hundreds of innocent people out of their life savings.

CHARACTERS

Pastor Byron Brown (Sir Ben Kingsley): Known to his parishioners as “Pa,” he is a pastor who has used religion to bilk hundreds of innocent men and women out of their life savings.

James (Jimmi Simpson): A disgraced firefighter who seizes a chance, illicit opportunity to reverse his life’s worsening course. When his plan veers dangerously off track, James must call on strength and fortitude he did not know he possessed in order to survive it all.

Lillian Brown/Ma (Jacki Weaver): Ma resembles at first glance a modest, dutiful church lady. She’s Pa’s willing accomplice, and his counterpart in regard to potency and cruelty.

Hector Contreras (Luis Guzman): Hector is a Mexican sheriff whose misplaced hope in the romantic pursuit of a used car saleswoman drives him to engage in James and Paul’s financially lucrative proposition, mistakenly assuming the simplicity of detaining a meek-seeming older couple (Ma and Pa) for two weeks, only to learn the couple is anything but meek.

Paul Allen Brown (Damon Herriman): Paul is the wayward son of Ma and Pa and the architect of the scheme to fleece his own parents out of millions. But when his new partner in the plan, James, assumes Paul’s identity as designed, we learn James may or may not be assuming the identity of a psychopath.

New Leaf (Chris Conrad): New Leaf is a former convict whose attempt at legitimacy via small business ownership is thwarted by Ma and Pa. Losing everything, he directs that violence and intensity toward hunting the stranger he believes to be responsible – the same identity James just assumed.

Uncle Dave (Kurtwood Smith): Uncle Dave is the devoted brother of Ma, who’s shunned in the community after a wrongful conviction drastically upends his humdrum way of life.  But if ever restored in freedom and in reputation, he would have the ability to expose James and Paul’s entire scheme.

Tom Walker (Terry O’Quinn): Tom is an exceptionally competent and persistent Texas Ranger whose investigation into the death of a young girl lands him in Half Acre where his primary suspect, Paul Allen Brown, has resurfaced.

Scotty Sholes (Hana Mae Lee): Scotty is the accountant for Our Lady of Perpetual Grace who has access to the church’s financial records after Ma and Pa go missing and becomes a dangerous obstacle for James.

Donny (Timothy Spall): Donny, who after being released from decades of incarceration, chooses to spend his final years of freedom exacting revenge on the man who betrayed and imprisoned him – Pa.

Starring Sir Ben Kingsley (Schindler’s List), Jimmi Simpson (Westworld), Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook), Luis Guzman (Code Black), Damon Herriman (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood), Chris Conrad (Patriot), Kurtwood Smith (That 70’s Show), Terry O’Quinn (Lost), Hana Mae Lee (Pitch Perfect), and Timothy Spall (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban).

Steve Conrad and Bruce Terris (Patriot) serve as executive producers and showrunners, with Steve Conrad directing six episodes. Joining Conrad and Terris as executive producers are Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch. The series will be produced by MGM Television and internationally distributed by MGM.

Perpetual Grace, LTD premieres June 2nd on EPIX with it available on Stan in Australia.

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