Despite taking a while to do so, NBC has renewed its supernatural drama Midnight, Texas. The series launched in the summer of 2017.
There will be a change at the top of the series from Universal Television and David Janollari Entertainment: Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder, who served as consulting producers on Season 1 under their overall deal at Uni TV, have been named executive producers and showrunners. They will succeed Monica Owusu-Breen, who wrote the pilot and served as showrunner on Season 1. She is leaving to focus on other projects.
The changes also apply to some of the cast as well. Sarah Ramos and Yul Vasquez will not be coming back as series regulars. The hope is for them to appear as guest stars, reprising their characters. Because of the long gap between the time the show shot its first season and was renewed for a second, the options on at least some of the actors had lapsed. Ramos, in particular, was courted to come back full time.
Midnight, Texas, starring François Arnaud, is based on the books by author Charlaine Harris, who already has one hit supernatural drama series based on her novels to her credit — HBO’s True Blood. The thriller, which ranked as the No. 1 broadcast drama series last summer in adults 18-49, got a solid ratings start in July, drawing a 0.9 adults 18-49 rating and 3.6 million viewers (Live+same day) for its premiere. It held relatively steady throughout its run, with the season finale logging a 0.8 demo rating and 2.7 million viewers in L+SD.
