Cinephile eyebrows were raised earlier this year when Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese announced that he’d partnering with Fox News Media’s streaming service, Fox Nation, for his new TV venture, Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints. But the show’s executive producer, Matti Leshem, characterizes the unlikely partnership as a match made in… well, heaven.
“Fox Nation has been incredibly supportive,” Leshem tells TVNewser about his and Scorsese’s working relationship with the streamer, which premieres the first half of the eight-episode docudrama on Nov. 17. Each of the hour-long installments dramatizes the life and times of a Catholic Church-beatified saint ranging from 15th century warrior Joan of Arc to 20th century friar Maximilian Kolbe. The remaining four episodes will stream in the spring, with the possibility of additional seasons to come.
Still, Leshem understands if devout Scorsese disciples have mixed feelings about subscribing to a streaming platform that’s associated with a conservative-leaning news network. That’s why he stresses …