AMC Announces Season 4, Rebrands as Queen of the Damned

AMC announced on July 24 that its acclaimed horror series will return for a fourth season, officially titled Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned. The renewal was revealed during a Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con, just days after the conclusion of the show's third season, The Vampire Lestat.

The new season will adapt the third novel in Rice's Vampire Chronicles, continuing the trend of renaming the series to match the source material. Queen of the Damned will focus on the ancient vampire queen Akasha, who was awakened at the end of the previous season. A teaser trailer released at the panel features Akasha, portrayed by Sheila Atim, calling for women to rise up and kill men, outlining her plan to eliminate 90 percent of the male population to end violence and oppression and establish a matriarchal world.

A significant creative change accompanies the renewal. Executive producer Hannah Moscovitch will step into the role of showrunner for the new season. Moscovitch, a writer on the series' first two seasons and an executive producer on The Vampire Lestat, replaces Rolin Jones, who served as showrunner for the first three installments. She will executive produce alongside Mark...