There’s no going back: the fourth and final season of AMC’s Turn: Washington’s Spies premieres June 17.
FINAL SEASON OF AMC’S REVOLUTIONARY WAR SPY DRAMA “TURN: WASHINGTON’S SPIES”
RETURNS WITH TWO-HOUR SEASON PREMIEREON SATURDAY, JUNE 17th AT 9:00PM ET/PT
George Washington and the Members of the Culper Ring
Are Determined to “Finish the Fight”
NEW YORK, NY – April 25, 2017 – AMC announced today the fourth and final season of the Revolutionary War spy drama “TURN: Washington’s Spies” will return on Saturday, June 17th at 9:00 P.M. ET/PT with a two-hour premiere. The Season 4 key art, featuring Jamie Bell as Abraham Woodhull, depicts his determination to “Finish the Fight.” Hi-res versions of the new season’s key art are available here.
The ten-episode final season opens with notorious traitor Benedict Arnold (Owain Yeoman) taking his revenge on George Washington (Ian Kahn) by rounding up suspected rebel spies to impress his new British commanders. Meanwhile, Abe Woodhull and the other members of the Culper Ring escape Arnold’s clutches and unintended consequences compel Abe to seek revenge. For his side to prevail, he must forsake his bloodlust and turn his attention toward the one thing that truly matters: winning the war.
An AMC Studios production, “TURN: Washington’s Spies” is executive produced by Craig Silverstein (“Nikita”), who also serves as showrunner, Barry Josephson (“Bones,” Enchanted) from Josephson Entertainment, Michael Taylor (“Battlestar Galactica”), Andrew Colville (“Nikita”) and Henry Bronchtein (“The Sopranos”), and is based on the book “Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring,” by Alexander Rose, who serves as a producer and has been a member of the writing staff since season two.
In addition to Bell, Kahn and Yeoman, the series stars Seth Numrich as Ben Tallmadge, Daniel Henshall as Caleb Brewster, Heather Lind as Anna Strong, Meegan Warner as Mary Woodhull, Kevin R. McNally as Judge Richard Woodhull, Angus Macfadyen as Robert Rogers, Burn Gorman as Major Hewlett, Samuel Roukin as Captain John Simcoe, Ksenia Solo as Peggy Shippen and Nick Westrate as Robert Townsend.
EW spoke to exec producer Craig Silverstein about what to expect from the Revolutionary War drama’s shortened final turn:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What are the stories that have been on the writers room wall for three seasons that immediately get reshuffled to the top of the deck when you got word that you’ve got a 10-episode sprint to the finish?
CRAIG SILVERSTEIN: When I went in to pitch the fourth season, I did pitch “The End.” I was maybe hoping for a slightly longer season, you know, so I have to get what might have been 12 or 16 episodes into 10. What floated to the surface? It was really about trying to create a story for the Culpers, who historically were a little more inactive right at the end [of the war]. But the espionage was not [diminished], so it was tying them into that story in a lot of fun ways that I think history lovers will love. And then it was figuring out where we do Yorktown, basically.Is that the target? Because we left off in the fall of 1780. Is there a time shift?
We pick up a month or so after, and we work our way through that year. And then there’s quite a few time jumps that take you a bit into the future, into the 19th century, showing the fate of everyone involved.
In truth, Turn didn’t have enough in the tank leave itself open for a fifth season, hence last year’s ‘final season’ renewal. But will you be sad to see the end of the series?
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