JamesG
06-29-2016, 05:29 PM
"Preacher" Renewed at AMC for 2nd Season
by Denise Petski
June 29, 2016
AMC has renewed its praised supernatural drama series "Preacher" for an expanded 13-episode second season, for premiere in 2017.
The Sony Pictures Television-AMC Studios co-production is the #2 new series on cable this year among adults 18-49 and adults 25-54, and is currently averaging 3.3 million viewers per episode, including 1.9 million adults 25-54, in Live+3, according to Nielsen stats.
“‘Preacher’ is a special television program and we’re eager to share with fans the rest of this wild first season and, now, an expanded second season,” said Charlie Collier, president of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios.
“What Sam, Seth, Evan and the entire creative team have achieved in bringing Garth Ennis’ graphic novel to the screen is extraordinary. We look forward to more time with these unforgettable characters be it in Heaven, Hell, Texas or beyond.”
Developed for television by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and showrunner Sam Catlin, "Preacher" is based on the popular cult comic book franchise. The supernatural and darkly comedic drama follows a Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, played by Dominic Cooper, who is inhabited by a mysterious entity called Genesis that gives him the power to make people do whatever he commands.
Once this power attracts the attention of two mysterious angels, Fiore (Tom Brooke) and DeBlanc (Anatol Yusef), Jesse, his badass ex-girlfriend Tulip (Ruth Negga), and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) are thrust into a crazy world populated by a cast of characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between.
Lucy Griffiths, W. Earl Brown, Derek Wilson and Ian Colletti also star.
http://deadline.com/2016/06/preacher-renewed-second-season-by-amc-1201781308/
by Denise Petski
June 29, 2016
AMC has renewed its praised supernatural drama series "Preacher" for an expanded 13-episode second season, for premiere in 2017.
The Sony Pictures Television-AMC Studios co-production is the #2 new series on cable this year among adults 18-49 and adults 25-54, and is currently averaging 3.3 million viewers per episode, including 1.9 million adults 25-54, in Live+3, according to Nielsen stats.
“‘Preacher’ is a special television program and we’re eager to share with fans the rest of this wild first season and, now, an expanded second season,” said Charlie Collier, president of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios.
“What Sam, Seth, Evan and the entire creative team have achieved in bringing Garth Ennis’ graphic novel to the screen is extraordinary. We look forward to more time with these unforgettable characters be it in Heaven, Hell, Texas or beyond.”
Developed for television by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and showrunner Sam Catlin, "Preacher" is based on the popular cult comic book franchise. The supernatural and darkly comedic drama follows a Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, played by Dominic Cooper, who is inhabited by a mysterious entity called Genesis that gives him the power to make people do whatever he commands.
Once this power attracts the attention of two mysterious angels, Fiore (Tom Brooke) and DeBlanc (Anatol Yusef), Jesse, his badass ex-girlfriend Tulip (Ruth Negga), and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) are thrust into a crazy world populated by a cast of characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between.
Lucy Griffiths, W. Earl Brown, Derek Wilson and Ian Colletti also star.
http://deadline.com/2016/06/preacher-renewed-second-season-by-amc-1201781308/