Looks like the residents of Chester’s Mill won’t be out from Under the Dome any time soon.
CBS has renewed the series for a second season, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The drama will return with another batch of 13 episodes in summer 2014.
CBS announced the renewal during their session at today’s Television Critics Association meetings.
“We’re excited to tell more stories about the mystery of the dome and the secrets in Chester’s Mill, and are thrilled to have the master storyteller himself, Stephen King, tell the first one of next season,” CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler said in a statement announcing the news.
The series has earned huge ratings for CBS during the summer. The debut was the highest rated scripted series since 2000.
CBS hopes to use Dome in a strategy to offer year-round original content to viewers.
Booo! Not good news! I only watched this because it promised a different ending than the book. Now that ending isn’t going to happen any time soon. Maybe never, if a future season gets canceled after the previous one completes shooting. The entire book takes place over a very short time span, but now they’re probably going to milk the TV show for as long as possible — I’m already feeling my interest in the current season starting to fade away…
My wife and I completely stopped watching it after the first 4 or 5 episodes. I don’t mind when a tv show or a movie changes elements of a book to make it work better visually, but this adaptation changed the very nature of certain characters in the book (thinking of Big Jim here). We both found the show to be so different from the book as to make it unwatchable.