This is about the 1990 series based on The S.E. Hinton novel and film adaptation. For the 2016 series on WGN America also referred to as "The Outsiders", see Outsiders
WGN America is an American general entertainment multichannel television network owned by Tribune Broadcasting. The channel is one of several flagship properties owned by Chicago-based corporate parent Tribune Media, which also owns the channel's former parent television station during its existence as a superstation, Chicago's channel 9 WGN-TV, regional pay-television news channel Chicagoland Television (CLTV) and radio station WGN. The channel borrows its name from the "World's Greatest Newspaper" slogan of its corporate parent's former flagship newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, which was applied beforehand as the callsign of Tribune's Chicago television and radio stations.
Outsiders is an American television drama series created by Peter Mattei. Set in the fictional town of Blackburg, Crockett County, Kentucky, the series tells the story of the Farrell clan and their struggle for power and control in the hills of Appalachia. It is WGN America's third original series, which debuted on January 26, 2016. On March 11, 2016, WGN America renewed Outsiders for a second season which premiered on January 24, 2017. On April 14, 2017, WGN America announced, the series had been canceled after two seasons, with the then forthcoming last episode of the second season, airing as a series finale on the channel.
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| The Outsiders | |
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| Genre | Teen drama |
| Based on | Characters from The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
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| Original network | Fox |
| Original release | March 25 – July 22, 1990 |
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| Preceded by | The Outsiders |
The Outsiders is an American drama series that aired from March to July 1990 on Fox. Based on the characters from the 1967 novel of the same title by S. E. Hinton, the series' executive producer was the 1983 film's director Francis Ford Coppola.
The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial terrestrial television network that is a flagship property of Fox Corporation, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. The network is headquartered at the 20th Century Fox studio in Los Angeles, with additional major offices and production facilities at the Fox Television Center also in Los Angeles and the Fox Broadcasting Center in New York City.
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel but did most of the work when she was 16 and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18 when the book was published. The book details the conflict between two rival gangs divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "greasers" and the upper-class "Socs". The story is told in first-person perspective by teenaged protagonist Ponyboy Curtis.
Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders, which she wrote during high school. In 1988 she received the inaugural Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her cumulative contribution in writing for teens.
