Get the latest gossip

ATX Fest Delivers a ‘Fargo’ Premiere, a ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Reunion, and More

Video clips from the 13th annual Austin TV festival, which included a panel with Phil Rosenthal and a Norman Lear tribute.

Each year brings an eclectic mix of panels, some focused on individual series (both new and old), some on industry-wide themes, some on minutiae micro-targeted to the kind of person who would attend a four-day festival just about television. There was also a reunion of the cast and creative team of Halt and Catch Fire — a brilliant, criminally underseen drama about the early days of personal computing and the internet — held on the 10th anniversary of the show’s premiere on AMC. After a screening of the premiere of the fifth season of Fargo, I sat down with its creator, Noah Hawley, to talk about the evolution of his Coen Brothers tribute act, the casting of Juno Temple and Jon Hamm in the lead roles, and more.

Get the Android app