‘Halt and Catch Fire’ renewed for Season 3 at AMC

Even more exciting for fans of the show, co-creators Christopher Rogers and Christopher Cantwell have been upped to showrunner status, putting them in complete charge of the program.

Halt and Catch Fire has been a very modest ratings performer, with Season 2 averaging 520,000 viewers in Live+same day, down from 760,000 for Season 1 which had a stronger lead-in.

Halt And Catch Fire, AMC’s period drama about a group of tech-industry underdogs, has defied the odds with an eleventh-hour series renewal. Knowledgeable sources said the show’s budget is on the lower-end of cable TV dramas but is still upwards of $2 million an episode, which will not change in season three.

“We built an ownership model a few years ago expressly for this objective”, Stillerman said.

Halt & Catch Fire is set in the 1980s and tells the story of the personal computing boom through the eyes of a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time.

To hear AMC president of original programming Joel Stillerman tell it, Halt – which will move its story from Texas to California following the events of the season two finale – there are no plans as of now for season three to be Halt’s last.

Owning the series also allows it to run on AMC Global channels around the world, which will continue in Season 3. Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies), Toby Huss (Carnivàle), Mackenzie Davis (The Martian), and Argo’s Kerry Bishé and Scoot McNairy star.

“Halt” was saved by the fact that it had a steady core viewership that was largely upscale, and it enjoyed strong momentum with critics in season two after making shifts in its storytelling focus. Moreover, Stillerman reports that Lisco is more than confident that Cantwell and Rogers are up to the task of showrunning, saying, “He was so embracing of Chris and Chris, in terms of showing them the ropes. That’s a great place to start a third season from”.