AMC Networks has announced the renewal of “Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches” for a third season. The season will be set in Salem, Massachusetts. Emmy Award-winning producer and writer Thomas Schnauz (“Breaking Bad”) will join the series as co-showrunner with Esta Spalding on season three, which will dive deeper into the mythology of witchcraft, introduce new ‘spellbound’ families and feature some of the historical happenings of Salem, the infamous town of witch trials and folklore.
The second series in AMC Networks’ Anne Rice Immortal Universe, “Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches” season two concluded on March 2 and remains among the top series on AMC+ in both viewership and acquisition. The series stars Alexandra Daddario, Harry Hamlin, Tongayi Chirisa, and Alyssa Jirrels, among others.
“The drama and complexities of the Mayfair family continue to be an intriguing and enchanting source of story, and expanding that story against the backdrop of Salem, a historical haven of witchcraft, is an exciting next chapter for this series and our larger Anne Rice Immortal Universe,” said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks. “Tom Schnauz has a storied history with AMC, and we’re elated to have him join the talented Esta Spalding and our Mayfair cast for a season that will explore a larger world of witchery and Mayfair family secrets as we continue to build out this dynamic franchise.”
In addition to “Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches”, AMC Networks’ Anne Rice Immortal Universe includes “Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire,” returning for a third season next year, and “Anne Rice’s The Talamasca: The Secret Order,” from John Lee Hancock and Mark Lafferty and starring Nicholas Denton and Elizabeth McGovern, debuting this fall.
