Announced on last night’s episode of Talking Dead, AMC will Talking Preacher, a live after-show in the same vane as Talking Dead and Talking Saul following the season premiere and finale episodes of the much-anticipated new series Preacher. Chris Hardwick (Talking Dead, Talking Saul) will host the hour-long talk show and will feature series cast, creators, producers and so forth responsible for bringing Garth Ennis’ brutal fantasy tale about Jesse Custer and company to the small screeen. Talking Preacher will debut Memorial Day weekend on Sunday, May 29 at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT following an encore airing of the pilot episode at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. Dominic Cooper – Custer himself – and series executive producers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin will be guests. The second episode will air following the season finale on Sunday, July 31st at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.
Published between 1995 and 2000, Preacher tells the tale of of Jesse Custer, a small town Texas preacher who, nearly at his faith’s end, finds himself merged with a supernatural entity, Genesis, birthed from both an angel and a demon. Imbued with the ‘word of God’; the ability to make anyone obey his commands. Jesse then hits the road, reunited with his ex-girlfriend, Tulip, and joined by a rowdy Irish vampire, Cassidy, to track down God himself and force him to explain why he abandoned his duties in Heaven.
Preacher stars Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, Joseph Gilgun as Cassidy, Ruth Negga as Tulip, Lucy Griffiths as Emily, W. Earl Brown as Sherriff Root, Anatol Yusef as DeBlanc, Tom Brooke as Fiore, Derek Wilson as Donnie Schenck and Ian Colletti as Eugene/Arseface.
Brought by way of Sony Pictures Television and AMC Studios co-production, Preacher will be produced by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen through their Point Grey banner, along with Neal Moritz’s Original Film. The pilot was written by Sam Catlin who will serve as the show runner. Preacher is slated for a mid-2016 television premiere on AMC, sharing a home with shows the like of Better Call Saul, Into the Badlands and (sigh) The Walking Dead.
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