AMC Renews ‘Preacher’ for a Second Season

Variety has reported that AMC’s television adaptation of the cult comic Preacher has been renewed for a second season. This is great news for fans who have enjoyed the “slow-burn” of what has been viewed as a prequel to the comics.

The series is presently halfway through its freshman season of 10 episodes. The second season will expand to 13 episodes, and is slated to air in 2017. For those who haven’t had a chance to catch this intriguing series, AMC will air a Preacher catch-up marathon of the first five episodes 9PM EST on Thursday, June 30th.

Based on the cult comic by Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon, Preacher is about a Texas preacher named Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) who is inhabited by a mysterious entity called Genesis; which gives him the power to make people do whatever he commands. In the TV series, two mysterious angels, Fiore (Tom Brooke) and DeBlanc (Anatol Yusef) are attempting to retrieve this power. Other major players include Jesse’s badass ex-girlfriend Tulip (Ruth Negga), and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun); who will soon be thrust into a crazy world populated by a cast of characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between. The series also stars Lucy Griffiths, W. Earl Brown, Derek Wilson and Ian Colletti.

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The supernatural drama was developed by executive producers Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen and Sam Catlin. Catlin is also serving as showrunner and writer. 

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.”

Preacher airs Sundays at 9 PM EST on AMC.

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