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AMC announces Isle of the Dead starring Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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With the original series shuffling towards its conclusion, the world of The Walking Dead continues to spread like one of Alpha’s hordes with the news that AMC have announced yet another spin-off for the zombie drama. This time they’re partnering up Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s characters – Maggie and Negan – and stranding […]

Australian vampire series Firebite gets a trailer from AMC+

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Ahead of its premiere this Thursday, AMC+ has released a poster and trailer for the Australian vampire series Firebite which follows two hunters as they battle the last colony of bloodsuckers in the South-Australian desert; take a look here… “The eight-episode series takes a new spin on the vampire genre, following two Indigenous Australian hunters, […]

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches gets series order from AMC

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AMC is expanding its Anne Rice universe, having granted an eight-episode order for Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, a series adaptation of the Lives of the Mayfair Witches book trilogy which the network has been quietly developing since picking up the rights last year alongside Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. Mayfair Witches will be written by Esta Spalding […]

AMC to expand its zombieverse with Tales of The Walking Dead

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With the final season of The Walking Dead shuffling towards the first of three breaks, AMC have taken the opportunity to fill the zombie shaped hole in our lives by announcing yet another spin-off series titled Tales of The Walking Dead. Joining the previously announced Daryl and Carol series, as well as pre-existing zombie spin-offs […]

AMC’s Interview with the Vampire casts Sam Reid as Lestat

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AMC has announced Sam Reid (The Hunting) has been cast as the lead in the series adaptation of Anne Rice’s vampire novel Interview with the Vampire, where he will portray the vampire Lestat. Lestat de Lioncourt was born in France in 1760 to an aristocratic but broke family. He wanted nothing more than to leave his […]

AMC’s Interview with the Vampire series adds Game of Thrones alum Jacob Anderson as Louis

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Following on from the announcement that Sam Reid (The Hunting) has been cast as the vampire Lestat, AMC has revealed that Game of Thrones alum Jacob Anderson will portray Louis de Pointe du Lac in the series adaptation of Anne Rice’s vampire novel Interview with the Vampire. In Interview with the Vampire, Louis de Pointe du Lac is […]

Anne Rice’s The Lives of the Mayfair Witches in early development as series at AMC

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Last year it was announced that AMC had acquired the rights to Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches, with the cable network wasting little time in giving the green light to a TV series adaptation of Rice’s most famous novel Interview with the Vampire. Well, just a week on […]

AMC settles The Walking Dead lawsuit with Frank Darabont for $200 million

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Ahead of the premiere of the eleventh and final season of The Walking Dead, the long-running legal battle between AMC and original showrunner Frank Darabont has finally come to an end. As reported by Deadline, the cable network has stumped up a whopping $200 million cash settlement to Darabont, along with “future revenue sharing related […]

Dominic Monaghan joins AMC’s sci-fi thriller series Moonhaven

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After appearing in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Lord of the Rings and Lost actor Dominic Monaghan is set for another trip to space, having signed on for a role in AMC’s upcoming suspense thriller series Moonhaven from writer-producer Peter Ocko (Black Sails). As reported by the trade, the six-episode series follows “Bella […]