Television In April 2015,
Deadline reported that
Paramount Television had decided to use a three-year, first-look production deal they made with
Anonymous Content productions to adapt
The Alienist as an event TV series. Paramount also announced that Oscar-winning
Forrest Gump screenwriter
Eric Roth had come on board the project as executive producer, as did
Hossein Amini as both writer for the series and executive producer. It was also announced that the
season 1 True Detective director
Cary Fukunaga would be brought on board to direct all the episodes and act as an executive producer. In May 2015,
Variety reported that
TNT had made a deal to produce the series at $5 million per episode. In July 2015, writer/director
John Sayles announced on his blog that he was joining the team as writer for the TV series. On July 21, 2015,
Caleb Carr made an announcement that he was coming on board the series as a consulting producer. The ten-episode series premiered on TNT on January 22, 2018. On August 16, 2018, TNT ordered a sequel series based upon the follow-up novel
The Angel of Darkness. == References ==