AMC has opted not to pick up a third season of their horror series NOS4A2. Showrunner and executive producer Jami O’Brien shared the news Monday on Twitter with the following statement:
“Well friends, I heard from AMC last week. We won’t be making a 3rd season of #NOS4A2. It’s a bummer, but I’m grateful we were at least able to finish adapting the storyline from Joe Hill’s terrific novel… CONGRATULATIONS to every single member of our phenomenal team on two seasons of weird and wonderful TV. I will miss seeing everyone back in Little Rhody this year, but I’m awfully proud of all we’ve done together.”
NOS4A2 performed well in the ratings during its first season but the series suffered declines during season 2. The second season averaged about 800,000 total viewers per episode and 350,000 adults 25-54 in Nielsen Live+3. That’s about half as many as watched the first season, even with all Season 2 episodes being simulcast on AMC and BBC America. The show is based on Joe Hill’s bestselling 2013 novel and centered on Vic McQueen (Ashley Cummings), a gifted young woman who discovers she has a supernatural ability to find lost things. This ability puts her on a collision course with Charlie Manx (Zachary Quinto), a seductive immortal who feeds off the souls of children, then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland – an icy, twisted Christmas village of Manx’s imagination where every day is Christmas Day and unhappiness is against the law. Vic strives to defeat Manx and rescue his victims – without losing her mind or falling victim to him herself. The series also starred Jahkara Smith, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Virginia Kull, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
