The Strain

TV Show

The Strain is an American horror drama television series that premiered on FX on July 13, 2014. It was created by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, based on their novel trilogy of the same name. Carlton Cuse serves as executive producer and showrunner. Del Toro and Hogan wrote the pilot episode, "Night Zero", which del Toro directed. A thirteen-episode first season was ordered on November 19, 2013. The pilot episode premiered at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, Texas, in early June 2014.

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Genre	Vampire horror Drama +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Created by	Guillermo del Toro Chuck Hogan +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Based on	The Strain by Guillermo del Toro Chuck Hogan +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Starring	Corey Stoll David Bradley Mía Maestro Kevin Durand Jonathan Hyde Richard Sammel Sean Astin Jack Kesy Natalie Brown Miguel Gomez Ben Hyland Max Charles Ruta Gedmintas Rupert Penry-Jones Samantha Mathis Joaquin Cosio +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Voices of	Robin Atkin Downes +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Composer	Ramin Djawadi +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Country of origin	United States +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Original language	English +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No. of seasons	4 +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No. of episodes	46 (list of episodes) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

PRODUCTION

Executive producer	Guillermo del Toro Carlton Cuse Chuck Hogan Gary Ungar J. Miles Dale David Weddle Bradley Thompson Regina Corrado +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Production location	Toronto, Ontario +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Cinematography	Checco Verese Gabriel Beristain Miroslaw Baszak +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Editor	Kathryn Himoff Christopher Nelson Sarah Boyd +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Running time	39–44 minutes (regular) 70 minutes (pilot) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Production company	Double Dare You Carlton Cuse Productions (2014–15) Cuse Productions (2016–17) FX Productions (2014–15) FXP (2016–17) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Distributor	20th Television +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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RELEASE

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Original release	July 13, 2014 (2014-07-13) – September 17, 2017 (2017-09-17) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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