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Axed series The Killing (US) secures revival, key cast.

The revival of axed series The Killing will see it return to AMC with key cast Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnama.

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The-Killing-US-007As previously reported, the US adaptation of The Killing is getting a revival, now including Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnama.

The series, based on a Danish drama, will return to cable network AMC, but without the rumoured involvement from Netflix.

The Hollywood Reporter notes Showrunner Veena Sud and her team have been back in the writers room for weeks but that some of the cast members, including Billy Campbell and Michelle Forbes, will not return.

“The Killing from day one has been a truly original take on the crime drama,” said AMC president Charlie Collier in a statement. “We’re so pleased to welcome it back for another season.” Added Fox TV Studios president David Madden, “We have always believed in The Killing and remain extremely proud of it, which is why we all worked so hard to find a scenario that could give it new life.”

The series’ third season will track a new case, which will be solved during the course of 12 episodes. It will be set a year after closing the Larsen case, and Linden is no longer a detective. But when her ex-partner Holder’s search for a runaway girl leads him to discover a gruesome string of murders that connects to a previous murder investigation by Linden, she is drawn back into the life she thought she’d left behind.

The US series aired in Australia on ONE.

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  1. I dislike both NCIS and CSI, but The Killing was horrible. It was ridiculed by most of its fans and critics especially at the end of the first season when they chose to drag an already paper-thin plot to another second season of red herrings and slow pacing.

    My favourite series of the past few years were Homeland, The Walking Dead and Mad Men, and genre fare like Arrow and Last Resort. The only CBS procedural I watch regularly is Elementary.

  4. With AMC bringing this turd of a show back and firing the showrunner from the Walking Dead, and Mad Men and Breaking Bad finishing this year, I predict they will go the way of Channel Ten. Poor decisions + lower quality programming = loss of audience.

    TWD will rate well for a few more seasons but with the constant changing of showrunners they will find a way to run it into the ground. Also I read somewhere the creator of Breaking Bad wanted 16 eps to finish the story but the network only gave him 8.

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