Is ‘American Hostage’ based on a true story? What happened to Tony Kiritsis and Dick Hall?

‘American Hostage’ Review: Jon Hamm and Giovanni Ribisi in an MGM+ Kidnapping Thriller With Lots of Potential but Little Payoff

Jon Hamm stars in MGM+'s 'American Hostage,' about a 1977 kidnapping in Indianapolis and the trusted radio host caught in the middle.

TV review: locally shot American Hostage smooths over tricky tonal shifts

The first episode of the eight-part series American Hostage is as fiercely compelling an opener as one gets in the realm of streaming shows.

The Mad-ness continues: Jon Hamm suits up again for Winnipeg-shot series American Hostage

It has been 11 years since the landmark TV series Mad Men finished its seven-season run, from 2007 to 2015. Since that time, actor Jon Hamm has put some distance between himself and the role of smooth-surfaced, internally roiling Madison Avenue ad man Don Draper. Hamm played a vicious bent lawman in the fifth season […]

In ‘American Hostage,’ Jon Hamm explores why those who feel voiceless turn to violence

The actor worked with Shawn Ryan and Eileen Myers to adapt the true story of a radio news broadcaster and an aggrieved kidnapper with modern-day parallels to figures like Luigi Mangione.

Is ‘American Hostage’ based on a true story? What happened to Tony Kiritsis and Dick Hall?

The MGM+ series revisits a 63-hour 1977 standoff where Tony Kiritsis held Dick Hall captive with a shotgun.

Jon Hamm in MGM+ Kidnapping Thriller

MGM+‘s American Hostage is a TV show based on a podcast about the power of radio, a chaotic media-hopping smorgasbord that feels oddly appropriate when you watch the eight-part series that flirts with a number of contemporary topics but ends up being mostly well-acted, over-extended nostalgia for landline telephones and manageable institutional corruption. Created by