AMC announces its first-ever primetime animated drama series

AMC is a network that’s typically associated with high-profile prestige dramas like Breaking Bad and Mad Men, and also it has The Walking Dead, but today it announced that it has picked up its very first primetime animated drama: Pantheon, an adaptation of a series of short stories written by Ken Liu, with Turn and Terra Nova’s Craig Silverstein on board as showrunner. The series is about a teen girl named Maddie who has a problem with bullies, at least until she gets help from a mysterious online stranger (so it’s the reverse of how online strangers normally behave). As it turns out, though, this particular stranger is actually her dead father, whose brain was uploaded to “the Cloud” in an “experimental destructive brain scan.” Now he’s a “new kind of being” called a “UI” or “Uploaded Intelligence.” From there, Maddie finds herself involved in a global conspiracy to turn more people into UIs, which sounds to us like she’ll have to fight an army of internet ghosts.