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NBCUniversal Officially Burying ‘Chiller’ Channel Six Feet Under

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At least we still have Syfy… right?

As we recently told you, Cox dropped NBCUniversal-owned horror channel Chiller as of this month, in the wake of Verizon, Charter and Dish all quietly dropping the channel earlier in the year. At the time, NBCUniversal seemed to still be sticking by the channel, but we were fearing the worst.

And those fears, it turns out, were well founded.

TV Answer Man reports today that NBCUniversal will be killing Chiller as of January 1, 2018.

Low-profile channels like Chiller and Cloo are an endangered species, even for a company with the market clout of NBCUniversal,” Variety explains. “Taking the small fry off the table helps NBCU’s effort to beef up programming and carriage fees for its core cable nets, including USA Network, Syfy, Bravo and E!

Chiller launched in February 2007 as a showcase for horror and thriller movies and TV shows pulled from the Universal vault and other sources.

Ten years. Not a bad run. RIP Chiller.

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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“Snowpiercer” Season 4 Moving to AMC for Early 2025 Premiere

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Snowpiercer Season 4

TNT‘s series adaptation of Bong Joon Ho’s “Snowpiercer” (which was based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob) kicked off back in 2020, with three seasons aired between 2020 and 2022. Season 4 has already been filmed, but it won’t be airing on TNT. As we learned last year, TNT made the decision to cut ties with the brand entirely.

The good news? The upcoming season has been given a second chance at life.

Variety reports this afternoon that “Snowpiercer” Season 4 has been acquired by AMC – along with the previous three seasons – and it’ll finally premiere on AMC in early 2025.

Variety notes, “It had already been announced Season 4 would be the show’s last before TNT parent company Warner Bros. Discovery decided to not air Season 4 altogether in a cost-cutting move. Producer Tomorrow Studios then shopped the show to other outlets.”

“’Snowpiercer’ is an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride with a loyal fanbase – similar to the passionate fandoms we serve across our biggest franchise series – and a welcome addition to AMC and AMC+,” said Ben Davis, executive vice president of original programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios. “We look forward to giving viewers an opportunity to binge the first three seasons later this year, in anticipation of the arrival of a remarkable fourth season helmed by Paul Zbyszewski and this stellar cast, which will premiere in 2025.”

“We’re so thrilled the train has finally found a home, and we’re incredibly grateful to everyone at AMC and Tomorrow Studios for giving the fans of ‘Snowpiercer’ a chance to enjoy season four with all the hard work this amazing cast and crew put into it,” said showrunner Paul Zbyszewski.

In the series, “Seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a perpetually-moving train that circles the globe, where class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.”

Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Alison Wright, Mickey Sumner, Susan Park, Iddo Goldberg, Katie McGuinness, Annalise Basso, Sam Otto, Roberto Urbina, Sheila Vand and Jaylin Fletcher star in “Snowpiercer.”

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