‘Dark Winds’ Renewed For Season 3 On AMC – Deadline

AMC is heading into extra Darkish Winds.

The cable community has renewed the crime drama for a 3rd season, coming a few weeks after Season 2 completed its run.

The the brand new season is deliberate to premiere in early 2025, a noticeable shift from the summer time premiere of its first two runs, however comprehensible given the writers and actors strikes.

It comes after Darkish Winds made its debut on Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max service as a part of a two-month pop-up.

Darkish Winds stars Zahn McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon and Jessica Matten.

The primary season of the sequence, which is produced by AMC Studios, drew 2.2M viewers on AMC for its June 2022 launch in Reside+3 rankings. The corporate stated that the second season averaged 1.7M viewers every week in Reside+3, per Nielsen and noticed “vital” viewership and acquisition positive factors from season one on AMC+.

Within the second season, Lt. Joe Leaphorn (McClarnon), reunites with Jim Chee (Gordon), his former deputy turned personal eye, when their separate circumstances deliver them collectively in pursuit of the identical suspect. They discover themselves within the excessive desert of Navajo Nation chasing a killer who’s turned his sights on them to guard a secret that rips open previous wounds and challenges Leaphorn’s ethical {and professional} code. With the assistance of Sgt. Manuelito (Matten) and Valencia County Sheriff Gordo Sena, Leaphorn and Chee should thwart their would-be murderer and restore stability not solely to their very own lives, however to the reservation that relies on them.

Deanna Allison and Elva Guerra additionally star with visitor stars together with Jeri Ryan, Nicholas Logan, A Martinez and Joseph Runningfox.

Darkish Winds is predicated on the Leaphorn & Chee ebook sequence by Tony Hillerman. The sequence was created by Graham Roland with John Wirth serving as showrunner. Roland, Wirth, McClarnon, Robert Redford, George R.R. Martin, Anne Hillerman, Chris Eyre, Vince Gerardis and Tina Elmo exec produce. Greater than 90 % of the manufacturing group on either side of the digicam for season two had been Indigenous.

“We began this journey with very excessive hopes for this sequence, given the outstanding supply materials and extraordinary artistic group behind it, and it has delivered on each degree,” stated Dan McDermott, president of leisure and AMC Studios for AMC Networks. “From the beloved novels, to an extremely collaborative producing group that features Robert Redford, George R. R. Martin, showrunner John Wirth and star Zahn McClarnon, to the complete solid and crew, there may be a lot storytelling but to return on this universe. Due to the followers for embracing this sequence and the critics for celebrating and shining a lightweight on it.”