Fox Resurrects ‘The Exorcist’ for Season 2

Rumors have been swirling or months now that Fox’s psychological drama The Exorcist would be canceled due to unimpressive ratings.

Fox stunned fans this week by renewing the psychological drama for a second season.

According to The International Business Times reports the hour-long drama only averaged 1.9 million viewers with a 0.7 rating among the 18 to 49 demographic.

Originally planned for a 10-episode arc, the first season ended in December of 2016. Fox surprised fans of the series by renewing the drama on Friday. Fox has yet to release any details in regards to Season 2, aside from opening “a new chapter in the iconic franchise.”

We spoke with executive producer Rupert Wyatt last fall, and Wyatt stressed that The Exorcist wasn’t an “exorcism of the week” procedural.

“One of the first questions I asked was, how does one achieve a series out of The Exorcist? Certainly no one was ever looking, or setting out, to do exorcism of the week, it was not that whatsoever,” said Wyatt.

So it’s like that we’ll be following the new odd-couple team of exorcists, Father Tomas and Father Marcus on a new case.

The series starred Geena Davis, Alfonso Herrera, Ben Daniels, Hannah Kasulka, Brianne Howey, Kurt Egyiawan, and Alan Ruck and was produced by Jeremy Slater, Rolin Jones,  Rupert Wyatt, Roy Lee, James Robinson, and Barbara wall with Twentieth Century Fox Studios.

The drama was based off the 1973 movie by the same name, with a tense slow-burn plot and did a good job of balancing two new main characters with the source material. However,

The Exorcist now joins Gotham, Lethal Weapon, Lucifer, Star and The X-Files, for the 2017-2018 television season.

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