Halt & Catch Fire gets picked up

Just in! AMC (Mad Men, The Walking Dead) has added the Dallas-set drama Halt & Catch Fire, which takes place during the early 1980s, to its programming schedule. The announcement was made by AMC president Charlie Collier at the summer Television Critics Association press tour. Halt & Catch Fire is set in the early 1980s, Drama that follows the early days of the personal computer revolution, traces a visionary (Lee Pace), an engineer (Scoot McNairy) and a prodigy (MacKenzie Davis), whose innovations go toe-to-toe with the corporate companies of the time in Texas’ Silicon Prairie. Even though it’s happening in Dallas, it wasn’t filmed there – the pilot was shot in Atlanta, Georgia.
The serie is scheduled to begin production in early 2013.