{"id":13018,"date":"2016-03-08T19:42:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T00:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=13018"},"modified":"2016-03-08T19:42:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T00:42:17","slug":"transmissions-amc-renews-the-dystopian-hit-into-the-badlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=13018","title":{"rendered":"Transmissions: AMC Renews the Dystopian Hit Into The Badlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMC announced today that it has renewed the acclaim\"into-the-badlands-season-1-cast-935x397\"<\/a>ed martial arts drama \u201cInto the Badlands\u201d for a 10-episode second season, premiering on AMC in 2017. The show delivered the third highest-rated first season in U.S. cable TV history and scored with critics and fans for its immersive world and the artistry of its elaborate fight sequences.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In the U.S., Nielsen live+7 ratings, the show\u2019s first season averaged 5.6 million viewers per episode, including 3.5 million adults 25-54 and 3.4 million adults 18-49.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWith its deep dive into authentic martial arts, the visually stunning \u2018Into the Badlands\u2019 proved to be unlike anything else on television,\u201d said Charlie Collier, president of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. \u201cCo-creators and showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar, along with a talented team of producers, cast and crew, brought us an artfully crafted series. We\u2019re eager to return to the world of barons and blades and spend even more time with these compelling and evolving characters across an expanded second season.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u201cWe can\u2019t imagine any other network bold enough to embrace a show like this,\u201d said Gough and Millar. \u201cWe are incredibly grateful to Charlie, Joel and the entire AMC team for taking this leap of faith with us and we look forward to continuing the journey into the Badlands!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Simultaneous to its U.S. launch, AMC Global will premiere season two of \u201cInto the Badlands\u201d within minutes of the U.S. broadcast. AMC Global premiered season one in 125 countries simultaneous to the AMC U.S. premiere, and the series achieved record-breaking performance in key markets.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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From AMC Studios, \u201cInto the Badlands\u201d was created by showrunners\/executive producers\/writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and executive produced by Oscar\u00ae-nominated producers Stacey Sher and Michael Shamberg, director David Dobkin, fight director Stephen Fung and Daniel Wu.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cInto the Badlands\u201d stars Wu (\u201cTai Chi Zero\u201d) as Sunny; Marton Csokas (\u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King\u201d) as Quinn; Aramis Knight (\u201cThe Dark Knight Rises\u201d) as M.K.;\u00a0 Oliver Stark (\u201cLuther\u201d) as Ryder; Emily Beecham (\u201c28 Weeks Later\u201d) as The Widow; Orla Brady (\u201cDr. Who,\u201d \u201cFringe\u201d) as Lydia; Sarah Bolger (\u201cOnce Upon a Time,\u201d \u201cThe Tudors\u201d) as Jade; Ally Ioannides (\u201cParenthood\u201d) as Tilda; and Madeleine Mantock (\u201cEdge of Tomorrow\u201d) as Veil.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMC announced today that it has renewed the acclaimed martial arts drama \u201cInto the Badlands\u201d for a 10-episode second season, premiering on AMC in 2017. The show delivered the third highest-rated first season in U.S. cable TV history and scored … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4279,28,4275,4274,4276,4280,4278,4277,4281],"class_list":["post-13018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transmissions","tag-alfred-gough","tag-amc","tag-daniel-wu","tag-into-the-badlands","tag-marton-csokas","tag-miles-millar","tag-oliver-stark","tag-sarah-bolger","tag-stephen-fung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13019,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13018\/revisions\/13019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}