The Beast Must Die: AMC Networks Acquires Original Drama Series AMC Networks has acquired the six-part revenge thriller The Beast Must Die, which will premiere on AMC and AMC+ later this year. The series is produced in partnership with BritBox UK, New Regency Television International, and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free. Chernobyl, The Good Wife, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, The Outcast, Downton Abbey, Back to Life, Anne with an E), and based on the novel by Nicholas Blake (pen name of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis CBE), The Beast Must Die tells the story of a grieving mother who infiltrates the life of the man she believes killed her son.