Jojo Siwa may have invented gay pop, but Rockstar Lestat will surely perfect it. The benevolent patrons of the vampiric arts at AMC Networks, truly the Medici of our time, is renewing your favorite TV show’s favorite TV show (don’t overthink it), Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire, for a third season. As if that wasn’t already great news in itself, AMC confirmed that the third season will follow historical blond menace Lestat de Lioncourt’s (Sam Reid) rock-god story arc from the second book in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles series, 1985’s The Vampire Lestat. This just might be the most momentous event in fictional rock history since a little band in Sausalito laid down “Masquerade.â€
The press release teases the upcoming arc as follows: “In season three, resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy bestseller ‘Interview With The Vampire,’ the Vampire Lestat sets his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can—by starting a band and going on tour. Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. Those Who Must Be Kept. They join Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed and others we can’t tell you about yet on a sexy pilgrimage across space, time and trauma.â€
After the first two seasons covered Rice’s first novel, fans of the books will be excited to see some familiar names like Nicholas and Magnus in season three’s tour roster. And some of us freaks are just psyched that our boys Sam Barclay and Raglan James are back.
Showrunner Rolin Jones thanked the cast, crew, AMC execs, and “the rabid, beautifully unwell fandom that scaled the castle walls to get us to this day.†He also offered “sincere apologies to the family and friends of actor Sam Reid, for the possession that continues to this day. Monsieur L extends his promise to return his body upon cancellation (may that evening never come.)â€
This season renewal comes days before the season-two finale airs on AMC and AMC+ on Sunday, June 30, and after they announced that the network will expand its Anne Rice Immortal Universe franchise (which also includes Witches of Mayfair) with a third series about the shadowy Talamasca (Raglan James strikes again). But IWTV is the horny, verbose, dramatic glue keeping this whole operation together, and we’re glad to hear there’s gonna more of it. There’s no word yet of when this Rockstar Lestat era begins, so you have plenty of time to catch up with this standout series if you haven’t yet. The rest of us will be waiting in the Satan’s Night Out presale queue on TicketMaitre.Â