AMC will bring back its drama series Humans for a second season, the network announced Friday prior to its Television Critics Association tour session.

 Humans, a co-production between AMC and Britain’s Channel 4, will return for eight new episodes, with production starting next year, according to network officials.

The artificial intelligence-fused series is averaging 2 million viewers and 1 million adults 25-54 through its first four episodes in live+3 ratings, according to AMC.

“We’re so pleased to announce a second season of Humans and extend our terrific partnership with Channel 4,” said Joel Stillerman, president of original programming and development for AMC and Sundance TV. “As one of the year’s top new cable series, Humans has been embraced by fans and critics across the U.S. and UK. We’re looking forward to continuing this very captivating story and further exploring the show’s parallel, Synth-filled world that hits so disturbingly close to home.”

AMC Friday also released  photos from the set of  Better Call Saul (pictured). The series, which is currently shooting its second season in Albuquerque, NM,  is set to debut early next year on AMC.

From creepy robots in AMC’s Humans to masked murderers in MTV’s Scream to mentally connected freaks in Netflix’s Sense8, networks are leaning into horror flicks to scare up ratings.

Six new horror, sci-fi or supernatural series are scheduled to debut in June alone, showcasing the breadth and depth of the genre. Along with the aforementioned series, BBC America will debut on June 13 a supernatural-themed series, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, in which two magicians battle to establish dominance in 19th-century England.

Syfy will roll out two action thrillers set in space: Dark Matter (premiering June 12), in which a spaceship crew must find a way to survive after they wake up with no memories of who they are or why they’re on board; and Killjoy (June 19), which follows the exploits of three space-faring bounty hunters.

Those June premieres will join two returning genre series from TNT — the plague-themed The Last Ship, which was last year’s most-watched freshman summer series, and the final season of alien-invasion drama Falling Skies — as well as ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars.

HOT GENRE

Horror TV has been hot for a few years now, with the success of such shows as AMC’s The Walking Dead — the most-watched series on cable — as well as Showtime’s Penny Dreadful, FX’s The Strain and American Horror Story, and Netflix’s Hemlock Grove.

MTV, which has already mined the horror genre to success with Teen Wolf, will take another stab at horror with a reimagining of the popular 1990s Scream movie franchise, senior vice president of scripted programming Mina Lefevre said. The series, which debuts June 30, will not be an extension of the movie franchise, but will feature elements of the movie with a more contemporary look and storyline.

“We have to reinvent it to where the horror and thriller genre is today, which is a little darker and more sophisticated,” she said.

Still, Lefevre said she believes the movie franchise and the genre itself remain extremely popular with MTV’s core millennial audience.

“Television right now is where we’re breaking new ground with content, so the idea of reinventing a franchise like Scream became exciting, especially for our audience,” she said. “The viewers who do watch these types of horror movies are smack in our 18-34 demo, and given where TV is at — where it’s doing so much interesting genre work — it would be great to bring it to our audience.”

The incredible pace of technological advancement has created new, horrific real-life scenarios that are resonating with millennials and younger viewers, ABC Family executive vice president of programming and development Karey Burke said.

The network’s new series Stitchers, in which a covert government agency employs a college student to tap into the memories of dead people as a way of circumventing crimes, garnered a respectable 1.2 million viewers in its June 2 debut.

“The main character is a flawed woman whose flaws actually serve as an unlikely skill set … she is a character who is [more] comfortable in technology than she is in a relationship with other human beings, which makes her unique and appealing to our millennial audience,” Burke said.

USA Network’s Mr. Robot, a psychological thriller about a cybersecurity engineer/hacker recruited by a mysterious group to destroy companies digitally, is another series that taps into the interests — and fears — of technologysavvy millennial viewers, USA Network executive vice president of original series Jackie de Crinis said.

“Mr. Robot is not a super hero … but everything in this series can [happen] and is happening today,” de Crinis said. “It’s reflective of millennial cyber-hackers of today who have the capacity to break down these systems and wreak havoc. It’s literally a new form of terror for viewers.”

ALIENS AND ROBOTS

USA will play in the traditional sci-fi/horror genre this fall with Colony, which follows residents of an alien-occupied Los Angeles.

AMC is betting that potential advancements in artificial intelligence will spur interest in its new series Humans, in which ”synths,” or sophisticated robots, are the must-have device in every home, but often with unintended consequences.

“We feel strongly there is a passionate sci-fi audience out there that is fascinated by the topic of AI and the potential impact it has on our future” AMC senior vice president of international programming Kristin Jones said, “yet we also believe the storylines in Humans will draw in broader drama fans.”

AMC will debut its summer sci-fi series Humans on June 28, the network announced Thursday.

The series, based on Sweedish sci-fi drama Real Humans, follows the relationship between humans and synths, highly developed robots that are a must-have gadget for families, said network officials.

The series is produced by Britian’s Channel 4 and Kudos (Broadchurch).

“Humans is a series that is both incredibly entertaining and engaging on a character level, and a very timely exploration of the kind of impact the A.I. technology being developed today might have on our everyday lives,” said Joel Stillerman, AMC’s executive vice president of programming, production and digital content in a statement.  “You don't have to be a sci-fi fan to enjoy this story. As the title implies, it's very much about the human side of the topic.”

William Hurt leads the list of actors signed to star in AMC’s upcoming Sci-Fi Series Humans.

Hurt (A History of Violence, Damages) will star in the Channel 4, AMC and Kudos co-produced series, which is set in a parallel present where ‘Synths’ - highly-developed robotic servants eerily similar to their live counterparts – are part of the human household. Hurt plays George Millican, a widower who has formed a close relationship with his out-of-date synth Odi, who he treats more like a son than a piece of machinery.

Also starring in the series are Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, The  Honourable Woman), Tom Goodman-Hill (The Devil’s Whore, Mr Selfridge), Colin Morgan (Merlin, The Fall), Rebecca Front (The Thick Of It, Just William), Neil Maskell (Utopia, The Mimic) and Gemma Chan (Dates, Fresh Meat), said network officials.

Humans, written by British writing partnership Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley (Spooks, Spooks: The Greater Good), is based on the award-winning Swedish sci-fi drama Real Humans and will debut on the network in 2015.