Amazon has renewed The Man in the High Castle for a third season and brought in showrunner Eric Overmyer to oversee the scripted drama, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Overmyer has boarded the series as showrunner after the drama ran its second season without an executive producer after Frank Spotnitz left the show midway through production over budget and location issues. Overmyer takes over the dystopian drama after working with Amazon on Bosch. His credits also include The Affair and The Wire.
The streamer also released a season three announcement promo, seen above, which shows a couple returning to their home only to see the mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb exploding in the horizon outside their window.
“As timely as ever, the exploration of characters at a dark point for humanity has provided incredible stories for two seasons,” Amazon Studios head of comedy Joe Lewis said to the Hollywood Reporter. “Eric and his team are doing an incredible job crafting stories about the inner lives of those who struggle to do good in a world that is not. We couldn’t be more excited to bring season three to customers in 2017.”
Amazon, which does not release viewership information like other streamers including Netflix and Hulu, said in a release that The Man In The High Castle season two premiered with the most viewers of all of its original series over the show’s debut weekend (Dec. 16). Amazon in December 2015 said The Man In The High Castle had surpassed Bosch as its most-watched original during its freshman run.
The series is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel, and imagines a much more disastrous ending for World War II, one in which the Axis powers—Germany and Japan—split the U.S. between them, with Germany controlling the East Coast and Japan ruling the West Coast of the United States.
The drama is produced by Sony Pictures Television.
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