Watch Hell on Wheels online! Hell on Wheels, the newest offering from red-hot AMC, is deemed a natural fit for a TV network which was initially noted for showing wall-to-wall John Wayne westerns. It was simply a bit of time before AMC, which now boasts a quantity of critically acclaimed hits including Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Walking Dead and The Killing would add a western to its viewing stable. The original AMC was greatly involved with the service western so we still show John Wayne movies. It really the bread and butter of the channel many many years ago, Owen Shiflett, AMC's director of development, said on a screening of the new series along at the Banff World Media Festival. It's still as fashionable as previously then. Hell on Wheels is surely an American period drama by using a revenge theme set throughout the building of the TransContinental Railroad just after the top of the Civil War. It's just a contemporary thriller placed in the west. I think the audiences want applicable for it with all the release of True Grit, the Coen brothers’ version, Shiflett said. Although placed in the south, the show been shot under the Calgary area, where rain and snow caused problems, which nevertheless has convincingly subbed spread over the American West though the weather hasn't been all that co-operative in the past few weeks. You're always restricted by the due date, money and weather. We shot this beautiful, gorgeous pilot last summer. It's beautiful, it's epic. But the first three to four weeks here in Alberta we had epic rainstorms, flooding and hail, said Chad Oakes, the series's Calgary producer. It could have been called Hail on Wheels. We jumped directly into initial couple of episodes. It's dirty, it's muddy. It seems fantastic. Jeremy Gold said the actors who auditioned for Hell on Wheels were warned in regards to the conditions. We sat down with their organization and said this is clearly not like getting in your air conditioned car, drive five minutes to the Warner Bros lot, rendering several hours, have a nice dinner and go home, he stated. Already pointed out it is going to be really, really hot and i really, really cold — maybe for a passing fancy day. It is wet. It is muddy. Have you been down for that? The response from individuals were yeah, I'm in. When will we start? Tennessee actor Anson Mount was cast as Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier who returns home to find his wife was raped and murdered, with the exceptional young son killed by Union soldiers. The story relates to Bohannan tracking down the lads who committed the crime, which brings him to the railroad being developed to connect the state and where he finds himself involved with the Hell on Wheels element of the railroad. Watch Hell on Wheels episodes online!