Last Call for Seth Rogen’s PREACHER

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’ Preacher…is coming to it’s last season says Sony and Lionsgate. (You gotta be kidding me! -Editor)

Yup.  Preacher‘s upcoming fourth season will be its last.  Executive producer Seth Rogen announced the news Monday via his verified Twitter page in which he posted a video revealing that season four of the series would return Aug. 4 for its “final season.” 

The 10-episode comic book drama was renewed in November following an extended negotiating process. The show, produced by Rogen, Evan Goldberg and showrunner Sam Caitlin, moved its production hub from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and New Orleans to Australia.  The decision to end Preacher with season four comes days after Rogen and Goldberg moved their Sony TV-based Point Grey Pictures to Lionsgate with a massive film and TV overall deal. 

Based on Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s 1990s comic series from DC Comics imprint Vertigo, Preacher revolves around Rev. Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), a badass Texas preacher who, after losing his faith, learns that God has left heaven and forsaken his duties.   Jesse becomes the only one who is able to track God down and hold him responsible for his abdication. Tulip O’Hare (breakout star Ruth Negga), Jesse’s beer-guzzling vampire ex-girlfriend, accompanies him on his quest for answers. Joseph Gilgun and Lucy Griffiths co-star. 

Preacher had a wild ride to the small screen. AMC landed the rights to the series in February 2014 in a competitive situation with multiple outlets bidding for the beloved property. In October 2008, executive producers Neal Moritz, Jason Netter,  Ken Levin and Ori Marmur were attached to produce a feature film take on Preacher — with Ennis writing — after HBO passed on its planned series adaptation.  

Rogen and Goldberg — both super-fans of the comic — got involved and helped bring Preacher to AMC. 

News of Preacher‘s end game arrives the same day that the basic cable network announced a third series in the Walking Dead universe as AMC continues to double down on its ratings behemoth.

What’s more, all of the Walking Dead series are owned and produced in-house, while AMC had to pay a licensing fee for Preacher, which — despite its built-in fan base — was never much of a ratings or awards breakout.  

AMC’s roster now includes Better Call Saul (from Sony TV), all three Walking Dead series, Lodge 49, McMafia, The Terror, NOS4A2 and the upcoming Dispatches From ElsewhereInto the Badlands and The Son will both also end this year on AMC. 

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