Archer

SERIES PREMIERE Thursday January 14 10PM

Archer on FX

Adam Reed and Matt Thompson (of Sealab 2021 and Frisky Dingo fame) bring us their latest creation, Archer, on January 14.  The show will be airing at 10PM on FX.  I can't wait.

Who is Adam Reed?

Adam Reed was born and raised in the beautiful mountain town of Asheville, North Carolina,
where he spent his formative years being shooed away from the television.

He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in English and
(almost, were it not for one lousy F) minored in Drama. After graduation from UNC in 1992,
Reed traveled to Chamonix, France, where he worked as a handyman and bartender before
returning to the States due to an appalling lack of funds. Luckily, he had the foresight to have
a kind older sister, Anna, who got him a job in her division at Turner Broadcasting.
Reed moved to Turner’s Cartoon Network in 1994, where he began working with Matt Thompson
on High-Noon Toons and the seminal Cap’n Link and Kitty FunFun. Reed left Cartoon Network in
1996, rather abruptly, during production of A.M. Mayhem with Carrot Top. Reed and Thompson
then moved to New York, where they spent a year in the sordid underbelly of daytime talk
shows before founding 70-30 Productions.

In 1999, Reed and Thompson created Sealab 2021, which ran for four seasons on Adult Swim.
They followed this mild success with another Adult Swim original, Frisky Dingo. Reed left
70-30 Productions in 2008, taking a year off to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail (didn’t) and
then walk the Via de la Plata, which runs nearly the entire length of Spain (did). It was
while staggering across the sun-blasted interior of Spain that Reed came up with the idea
for Archer, which FX was cool enough to buy.

Reed founded Atlanta-based Floyd County Productions in 2008, and divides his time
between Atlanta and his hometown of Asheville. He is currently single (but looking). He has
so much love to give.