AMC and AMC+ Announce Fall 2022 Lineup: Vampires, Zombies, and Gangs Season 2 – Showbiz Junkies

Norman Reedus and Seth Gilliam in The Walking Dead season 11 (Photo Credit: Jace Downs / AMC)

AMC and AMC+ have set their fall 2022 lineup which will include the premieres of the animated series Pantheon and Anne Rices Interview with The Vampire. The last new episodes of the final season of The Walking Dead will debut in October and Gangs of London returns for its second season in November.

The fall lineup will also include a batch of original films. The sci-fi thriller Rubikon premieres on September 2 and the crime drama There Are No Saints debuts on September 9. Additional films arriving in September include Official Competition, Section 8, and You Dont Nomi.

Pantheon Two-Episode New Series Premieres Thursday, September 1 on AMC+ and HIDIVE

Based on a collection of short stories by award-winning author Ken Liu, this animated, sci-fi series focuses on a bullied teen (Katie Chang) who receives mysterious help from someone online. The stranger is soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David (Daniel Dae Kim), whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. David is the first of a new kind of being: an Uploaded Intelligence or UI, but he will not be the last, as a global conspiracy unfolds that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war.

The voice cast of this speculative sci-fi series includes Chang, Kim, Paul Dano, Aaron Eckhart, Rosemarie DeWitt, Chris Diamantopoulos, Raza Jeffrey, Ron Livingston, Taylor Schilling, Scoot McNairy, Maude Apatow, William Hurt (in his last role), Corey Stoll, Anika Noni Rose, Michael Kelly, and more.

The Walking Dead Season 11C New Season Premieres Sunday, October 2 at 9 pm ET/PT on AMC; First Two Episodes Available on AMC+ with Subsequent Episodes Available One Week Early on AMC+

The television legacy that is The Walking Dead begins its highly anticipated last eight episodes this October. On the heels of the oppressive presence of locusts, an even greater force is bearing down on every single member of each community. With Commonwealth flags raised at Hilltop, Alexandria, and Oceanside, theres no time to strategize for those on the road. Its a race against the clock to stay alive and extract those still living in the Commonwealth before Hornsby (Josh Hamilton) can execute his revenge. Inside the Commonwealth, Connies (Lauren Ridloff) article has created more chaos than planned.

By exposing the Miltons (Laila Robbins) corruption, their hope to create a better, more equal, life for all may instead put everyone at risk. With the vast debt our group owes and no other viable place to live, simply leaving has never been an option. But if their next move fails, staying wont be an option either. What theyre about to embark on will only invite more danger with massive consequences. The clock is ticking for our heroes inside the Commonwealth as well.

As each group continues to get caught in uncontrollable situations, threats lurk around every corner, dead and alive. The looming pressure is cresting towards a day of reckoning for all. Will the sum of their individual journeys cumulate into one, or divide them forever? The fight for a future continues to be exasperated by the ominous population of walkers. Not all will survive, but for some, the walking dead lives on.

Anne Rices Interview with The Vampire New Series Premieres Sunday, October 2 at 10 pm ET/PT on AMC; First Two Episodes Available on AMC+ with Subsequent Episodes Available One Week Early on AMC+

A sensuous, contemporary reinvention of Anne Rices revolutionary gothic novel, Anne Rices Interview with the Vampire follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudias (Bailey Bass) epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). Chafing at the limitations of life as a black man in 1900s New Orleans, Louis finds it impossible to resist the rakish Lestat De Lioncourts offer of the ultimate escape: joining him as his vampire companion. But Louiss intoxicating new powers come with a violent price, and the introduction of Lestats newest fledgling, the child vampire Claudia, soon sets them on a decades-long path of revenge and atonement.

Gangs of London Season 2 New Season Premieres November 2022

A new, darker era of chaos and turbulent power struggles comes to London in this critically acclaimed, award-winning original series. One year after the death of Sean Wallace and the violent reckonings of season one, the map and soul of the city has been redrawn the surviving Wallaces are scattered, the Dumanis broken and estranged, and ex-undercover cop Elliot Finch (p Drs, Humans) is now being forced to work for the Investors.

As the Investors look down on a city sliding into chaos, they decide enough is enough and bring in reinforcements to restore control. Old favorites and new players fight back against the new order, forcing sworn enemies to work together and family members to betray each other.

Returning cast includes Drs, Paapa Essiedu, Lucian Msamati, Michelle Fairley, Orli Shuka, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Brian Vernel, Narges Rashidi, Asif Raza Mir, and Valene Kane. Joining the ensemble cast for season 2 include Waleed Zuaiter, Jasmine Armando, Fady El-Sayed, Salem Kali, and Aymen Hamdouchi.

Rubikon New AMC+ Exclusive Film Premieres Friday, September 2

2056. A toxic cloud of pollution has swallowed the earth, killing untold numbers. The worlds nations have dissolved, with all power now in the hands of giant corporations. The rich retreat to sealed biodomes while the poor choke and starve. On the space station Rubikon, Hannah (Julia Franz Richter), Gavin (George Blagden) and Dimitri (Mark Ivanir) weigh the fate of the planets survivors. Should these crewmembers risk their own lives on a rescue mission to the surface or ignore the old world to build a new one of safety and solitude, living off the stations sophisticated algae symbiosis system?

Against the vast canvas of the cosmos, three people with different worldviews debate their moral responsibility to the species, all while grappling with the timely agony of isolation in this gripping feature from the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

There Are No Saints New AMC+ Exclusive Film Premieres Friday, September 9

A man nicknamed the Jesuit is imprisoned for a crime he didnt commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises an elaborate and dangerous plan to rescue his son and avenge the murder. Jos Maria Yazpik, Ron Perlman, Paz Vega, Tim Roth, and Neal McDonough star in this gritty Mexican-American action-thriller from the writer of Taxi Driver.

Official Competition New AMC+ Exclusive Film Premieres Friday, September 16

When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas (Penlope Cruz) is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavor. Completing the all-star team are two actors with enormous talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Flix Rivero (Antonio Banderas) and radical theatre actor Ivn Torres (Oscar Martnez). Both are legends, but not exactly best friends.

Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Flix and Ivn must confront not only each other, but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?

You Dont Nomi New AMC+ Exclusive Documentary Premieres Thursday, September 22

Paul Verhoevens Showgirls (1995) was met by critics and audiences with near universal derision when it premiered on this day 27 years ago. You Dont Nomi traces the films redemptive journey from notorious flop to cult classic, and maybe even masterpiece.

Section 8 New AMC+ Exclusive Film Premieres Friday, September 23 *In Theaters and on AMC+

After avenging the murder of his wife and child, a former soldier is sent to prison with a life sentence. Hes given a shot at freedom when a shadow government agency recruits him for an off-the-books assignment, and he soon realizes Section 8 isnt what it seems.

Starring Ryan Kwanten, Dolph Lundgren, Dermot Mulroney, Scott Adkins, and Mickey Rourke.

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AMC and AMC+ Announce Fall 2022 Lineup: Vampires, Zombies, and Gangs Season 2 - Showbiz Junkies

Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero