AMC is not moving forward with another season of its second Anne Rice series, Talamasca: The Secret Order, Deadline has confirmed.
The freshman series focused on a secretive society called the Talamasca, composed of the men and women responsible for tracking and containing the witches, vampires, and other creatures scattered around the globe.
Talamasca: The Secret Order was led by Nicholas Denton, and co-starred Elizabeth McGovern, William Fichtner, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, and Celine Buckens, with Jason Schwartzman serving as a guest star and Eric Bogosian and Justin Kirk reprising their roles from AMC’s Interview with the Vampire as crossover characters in the new series.
“While we are not proceeding with another season of Talamasca: The Secret Order, we are proud of the series and grateful for the efforts of everyone involved. The Talamasca has a storied place within the Anne Rice Immortal Universe, and we expect to see at least some of these characters, and the organization itself, in future expressions of the franchise,” AMC said in a statement Friday afternoon.
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As Deadline recently announced, the third season of Interview with the Vampire, now called The Vampire Lestat, will premiere Sunday, June 7.
In the upcoming rock and roll-centric season, the Vampire Lestat (Sam Reid) goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rise, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
Variety was first to announce the cancellation.