AMC have renewed the Alberta, Canada-lensed western series "Hell On Wheels" for a third season with John Wirth ("V"), serving as executive producer and showrunner.
Season three has been greenlit for ten, one-hour episodes, scheduled to premiere in the third quarter of 2013.
"...centered on the lawless town known as 'Hell On Wheels', that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, the series examines the railroad’s institutionalized greed and corruption, the immigrant experience and the plight of the newly emancipated African-Americans during reconstruction. It is also violent as hell..."
The series stars Anson Mount as former confederate soldier 'Cullen Bohannan', who is struggling to escape his demons from the recently fought Civil War. Colm Meaney stars as 'Doc Durant', a greedy entrepreneur taking full advantage of the changing times, and musician/actor Common is 'Elam Ferguson', an emancipated slave working to achieve true freedom in work entrenched in prejudice.
AMC’s EVP of original programming, production and digital content Joel Stillerman, Susie Fitzgerald and Jason Fisher, svp of production oversee "Hell on Wheels", produced with assistance of the Government of Alberta, Alberta Film Development Program.
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