‘Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans’ Gets FX Premiere Date; Details Of Second Installment Of Ryan Murphy’s Anthology Series

FX has confirmed the premiere date and released the key art (see above) for Feud Capote Vs. The Swans, the second installment of Ryan Murphy’s award-winning anthology.

The eight-episode limited series will premiere its first two episodes on Wednesday, January 31 at 10 pm ET/PT on FX, simulcast with a special Director’s Cut of the first episode on FXX. All episodes, including the Director’s Cut, will be available to stream next day on Hulu.

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The series, based on the bestselling book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer, will premiere Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in all other territories. Check local listings for dates.

In Feud: Capote Vs the Swans, Tom Hollander stars as acclaimed writer Truman Capote, who surrounded himself with a coterie of society’s most elite women – rich, glamorous socialites who defined a bygone era of high society New York – whom he nicknamed “the swans.” Beautiful and distinguished, the group included grande dame Barbara “Babe” Paley (Naomi Watts), Slim Keith (Diane Lane), C.Z. Guest (Chloë Sevigny) and Lee Radziwill (Calista Flockhart). Enchanted and captivated by these doyennes, Capote ingratiated himself into their lives, befriending them and becoming their confidante, only to ultimately betray them by writing a thinly veiled fictionalization of their lives, exposing their most intimate secrets. When an excerpt from the book, Answered Prayers, Capote’s planned magnum opus, was published in Esquire, it effectively destroyed his relationship with his swans, banished him from the high society he so loved and sent him into a spiral of self-destruction from which he would ultimately never recover.

The series also stars Demi Moore as Ann “Bang-Bang” Woodward, Molly Ringwald as Joanne Carson, Treat Williams as Bill Paley, Joe Mantello as Jack Dunphy and Russell Tovey as John O’Shea.

Feud: Capote vs. The Swans was written for television by Jon Robin Baitz and directed by Gus Van Sant, Max Winkler and Jennifer Lynch. The show is executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Alexis Martin Woodall, Baitz, Van Sant, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Naomi Watts, Eric Kovtun and Scott Robertson. It is produced by 20th Television.

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