Preacher Confirmed to Return for Second Season
It looks like AMC’s Preacher TV series will be coming for at least one more season. AMC officially announced in a press release today that the TV series, based on the classic DC Vertigo comic book series, is going to return for a second season. The second season will be 13 episodes, and it’s set to premiere later in 2013.
The announcement comes as the show is in the midst of its first season, having shown about five episodes, with a marathon for the first five episodes of the season set for Thursday, June 30. A new episode will air on Sunday, July 3. According to AMC, the show is the No. 2 new series on cable this year with adults 18-49 and adults 25-54, averaging about 3.3 million viewers per episode and about 1.9 million adults 25-54, in Nielsen live+3 ratings.
AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios President Charlie Collier said on the announcement: “‘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. 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.”
The show is based on the cult comic book series created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. The story follows a Texas preacher anmed Jesse Custer, 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 and DeBlanc, Jesse, his ex-girlfriend Tulip, and an Irish vampire named Cassidy are thrust into a crazy world, with characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between.