Syfy wants more zombies and they’re renewed Z Nation for a third season. There will be 15 new episodes 2016.
Season two is currently airing on Friday nights and is down 26-38% year-to-year. It remains the cable channel’s highest-rated scripted series.
Here’s the press release:
“Z NATION” TO RETURN FOR SEASON THREE ON SYFY
NEW YORK- November 6, 2015 – Syfy and The Asylum today announced that scripted drama series Z Nation will be back to Z-Whack its way through a third season of zombie road trippin’ action. A 15-hour third season is slated to premiere on Syfy in 2016.
Z Nation takes place three years after a zombie virus gutted the country. A team of everyday heroes is tasked with transporting the only known survivor of the plague across the country to the last functioning viral lab in post-apocalyptic America, in hopes of using his blood to create a cure for the virus.
Currently in the midst of Season 2, Z Nation is averaging 1.5 million total viewers per episode (Live +7). To date, it ranks as the network’s most social original series in total social engagements.
Z Nation stars Kellita Smith (The Bernie Mac Show), DJ Qualls (Supernatural, The Man in the High Castle), Keith Allan (Rise of the Zombies), Anastasia Baranova (The Darkness II), Russell Hodgkinson (Big Fish), Nat Zang and Matt Cedeño (Devious Maids). This season, Emilio Rivera (Sons of Anarchy) appears as a recurring guest star.
Karl Schaefer (Eerie Indiana, Eureka, The Dead Zone) serves as executive producer and showrunner. The series is produced by The Asylum and sold internationally by Dynamic Television.
Z Nation is currently airing Fridays at 10/9c on Syfy. Upcoming guest stars include Missi Pyle, Doug Jones, Anthony Michael Hall and Gina Gershon.
LINKS: Web: syfy.com/znation Twitter: @znation #ZNation
About The Asylum
The Asylum is one of the world’s leading brand-oriented motion picture and television studios. With a focus on high-concept, market-driven entertainment, like the SHARKNADO franchise and the popular Z NATION television series, The Asylum finances, produces and releases 25 films per year through its direct pipeline to the nation’s top retailers and its network of international partners. Since its founding in 1997, The Asylum has released more than 500 films and has built a library of over 200 original productions, including top-rated movie premieres for Syfy, Lifetime, and Animal Planet networks. In addition, The Asylum has finished production on its second season of Syfy’s #1 scripted show Z NATION, a critically-acclaimed action-horror series.
About Syfy
Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in 96 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBCUniversal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. (Syfy. Imagine Greater.)
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7 Comments on "Z Nation: Season Three Renewal for Syfy Series"
Thank you for a third season….but please end it. I am so fed up of watching really excellent series like Z Nation only to be left on a “cliff hanger” presumably in a misguided effort to drum up support for a new season. If a series is good fan will want more regardless.
Love Z Nation, better than Walking Dead
It is a good show, but it will not see the success that TWD has seen. And mainly, Z Nation exists because of the success of the original groundbreaking series “The Walking Dead.” Quit forgetting that, because iit is a majorly critcal fact. Thank you and have a good day.
This just shows the stupidity of network programmers. They had multiple shows that had viewers of millions. A couple over 10. They cancelled all of them. Now 1.5 is considered good.
love Z Nation ❤
Thank you Syfy for renewing Z Nation for a 3rd season its been upsetting to hear of all the great shows that syfy has recently cancelled. this was a very smart move.