AMC Renews ‘Preacher’ For Season Three

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Drama Preacher will be back for season three on AMC in 2018. Seth Rogen, executive producer, shared the news on Twitter. “Season 3!!!! #Preacher,” he wrote.

Season three will have 13 episodes.

Preacher premiered in spring 2016. Rogen and Evan Goldberg developed the series, with Sam Catlin as showrunner and executive producer.

Preacher is based on a comic book series that follows the exploits of a small-town Texas preacher whose body is taken over by an alien entity. Garth Ennis created the franchise, and is an executive producer on the show.

Sony Pictures Television produces the show.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.