Into the Badlands TV show on AMC renewed for season three. Pictured: Daniel Wu as Sunny. (Photo: Antony Platt / AMC.)
AMC has renewed its Into the Badlands TV show for a third season. The season three renewal is for an expanded order of 16 episodes. Into the Badlands, season three, will debut on AMC in 2018.
A martial arts drama airing on the AMC cable channel, Into the Badlands stars Daniel Wu, Marton Csokas, Orla Brady, Sarah Bolger, Aramis Knight, Emily Beecham, Oliver Stark, Madeleine Mantock, Ally Ioannides, and Nick Frost. The series takes place centuries into the future, in a feudal society called “the Badlands.”
Learn more from this AMC press release.
AMC HEADING DEEPER “INTO THE BADLANDS”
Series Renewed For Expanded 16-Episode Third Season, Returning In 2018
In Current TV Season, AMC Is Home To Four Of The Top Five Scripted Dramas On Cable
NEW YORK, NY – April 25, 2017 – AMC today announced that it has renewed the martial arts drama “Into the Badlands,” one of the highest-rated dramas on cable, for an expanded third season of 16 episodes, returning to AMC in 2018.
Midway through its current second season, “Into the Badlands” is averaging 3.6 million viewers per episode, including 2.1 million adults 25-54 in Nielsen Live+3 ratings. In the current television season, the series ranks as the #4 scripted drama on cable and the #4 returning drama, behind “The Walking Dead,” “American Horror Story” and “Fear the Walking Dead.”
“‘Into the Badlands’ looks like nothing else on television, a literal high-wire act attracting passionate and dedicated fans by the millions,” said Charlie Collier, president of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. “Thanks to series creators and showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar, the terrific cast, led by Daniel Wu, the amazing martial arts team guided by the incomparable Master Dee Dee and fight directors Stephen Fung and Andy Cheng, and everyone else involved who brings this thrill ride to the fans.”
“We are excited and grateful to continue our journey into the Badlands with Charlie, Joel, Susie and all of our friends at AMC,” said Gough and Millar. “We also want to give a big clipper salute to our Irish and Chinese partners! The thought of doing an expanded 16-episode season is both thrilling and exhausting!!”
In the current television season, AMC has four of the top five scripted dramas on cable.
Network Program P25-54 L+3 (000)
AMC WALKING DEAD 9,775 FX AMERICAN HORROR STORY 3,361 AMC FEAR THE WALKING DEAD 3,189 AMC INTO THE BADLANDS 2,123 AMC BETTER CALL SAUL 1,917 Source: Nielsen, ’16-’17 Season to Date (9/19/16 – 4/19/17), L+3, P25-54; excludes repeats, specials, gapped, sustainers, breakouts; Original Scripted Cable Dramas.
From AMC Studios, “Into the Badlands” was created by executive producers/showrunners/writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and is executive produced by Oscar®-nominated producers Stacey Sher and Michael Shamberg, along with David Dobkin, Stephen Fung, Michael Taylor and Daniel Wu.
“Into the Badlands” airs Sunday nights at 10 p.m. on AMC.
What do you think? Are you a fan of the Into the Badlands TV series? Are you currently watching season two? Will you tune in for season three of this AMC TV series?
1/16/18 update: Season three of Into the Badlands will debut on April 22, 2018. Details here.
Our whole family loves it. Hate to see the Baron die. He is the best bad man on TV. Bring him back to life, again.
I live in New Zealand, so I have wait more than a year buy and import the DVD version of Into The Badlands. I am addicted mostly to young MK played, as I remember by Aramis Knight. Anyway, I was thrilled to read that Season Three has been announced. Now I have something else to look forward to.
Yes. Watched season 1 and 2 and love it. Totally unique spin on classic themes. Almost,can’t wait for season three to air.
Amazing series!!! Can’t wait for more. Wish it was starting this year and not 2018 but will gladly wait
Very Excited it is Coming back this is an exccellent martial arts action series I cannot wait for it to continue
Love it keep up the good work.
Best show I watched in a long time.
Lot of good story left in Into the Badlands. Excited and very pleased that it’s back for S3!
Let’s now add a bit of reality. The last episode got 1.6 million viewers. Its ratings are almost entirely dependent on its lead-in…
In other words, it’s as much of a hit as “Single Guy was in its time.
In that time, Single Guy went. Today, this is enough to get the network to pretend it’s a hit and they may genuinely be happy with the poor performance as they have internalized their own PR…
Sad…
You want Reality? Look how many shows SYFY has renewed with ratings under a 0.20 and check the average viewer numbers. AMC just renewed Humans, which went from a 0.39 to a 0.14. TNT renewed Good Behavior with a 0.19. Check the viewer numbers. For a cable show, this is doing just fine. You have no clue what is acceptable for a cable TV show. ITB will finish with higher ratings than The Magicians, which was the FIRST show on SYFY in YEARS to do better in its second season than its first. The Expanse lost ratings this season even… Read more »
Thank you AMC. This is EXACTLY what I wanted. A quick renewal, the number of episodes raised to 15 or 16. Now I’m just waiting for TWD to get a season 9 renewal, hopefully in the next couple of months. I’m sure Better Call Saul will be renewed, so I won’t even worry about it. Thanks, AMC.
Best series ever.