Syfy to keep playing with Chucky for a third season
The network has also renewed Reginald The Vampirefor another season
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Chucky, the friendly little doll possessed by the evil spirit of a serial killer, is famously hard to kill. So, naturally, the larger Chucky franchise seems equally unstoppable: Today, Syfy announced that the Chucky spin-off/sequel series it shares with the USA Network has been renewed for a third season of increasingly complex and lore-heavy (though still weirdly approachable) Chucky schemes and Jennifer Tilly shenanigans. There’s also a teaser video in which Chucky calls the fans demanding a third season “assholes” and “morons,” which is rude—but what else should we expect from someone who has been in the body of a killer doll at this point for longer than he was ever a killer human? (Charles Lee Ray was born in 1958, so if we assume Chucky took place in 1988, he spent 30 years as a human and this will be his 35th year as a doll.)
The series will return for its third season this fall, with executive producer Don Mancini noting in a press release that this will help “keep Chucky busy” and that, if the show hadn’t been renewed, he would’ve been “frankly impossible to deal with.” That means Chucky is also rude to the people he works with!
In other Syfy TV news, the network has also ordered a second season of Reginald The Vampire, the comedy-horror series starring Jacob Batalon from the recent Spider-Man movies. The aforementioned press release says the show’s first season did well in the crucial 18-49 demographic, which is nice, and it also got a teaser trailer. Thankfully, this one does not feature Spider-Man’s friend Ned calling anyone an asshole… though that might actually be kind of fun to see. Reginald The Vampire’s second season doesn’t have a premiere window, but we’re going to go out on a limb and say it will be late this year or early next year.
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It really is incredible how Mancini has stuck with this franchise all these decades, and is determined to keep the goofiest parts canon even as it’s pivoted back toward straight horror. And somehow he pulled it off perfectly.
I thought we’d never see Glen & Glenda again. And then we did! And then(spoiler)…they get smooshed back into that horrible doll, I can’t say I’m crazy about that. I’ll totally show up for s3, but man, I fuckin’ hate that doll
It was pretty neat that they actually got Billy Boyd back, though.
What a weird world we live in now where Syfy renews shows and other networks throw theirs in the trash
Yes, it’s really weird that Syfy renewed the only buzzworthy and we’ll rated show they have and other networks throw shows away that are not profitable or not popular. Fucking crazy.
Hold on, TV shows can get renewed still??
they have to renew and shoot them so they can properly refuse to air them
Chucky is legitimately one of my favorite shows on tv. It’s campy in the perfect ways, and just so fun. And the teen actors got much better between season 1 and 2. I’m thrilled to get more of this. The episode focusing on Jennifer Tilly/Tiffany Valentine was one of the best eps of tv this year.
One of my favorite things in the franchise is Mancini’s obsession with Bound, where you kind of wonder if he knows Tilly’s been in anything else.
Pretty sure he know she was in Liar Liar 😛
Oh, sure! Based off of this season, he also seems to know that Tilly’s been in Liar Liar.
It’s wild, it’s weird, it’s a bloody fun time. Chucky works for me the way American Horror Story used to
The TV show is fine, but I wish it had the wonderful 2:3:5 aspect ratio of the movies.
The network has also renewed Reginald The Vampirefor another seasonThere needs to be a space between Vampire and for.
I love this show.
Is he wearing a little dress?
Finally some good tv news.
I’ve never been a huge Chucky fan even though I love Brad Doriff and I thought Bride of Chucky was kinda fun because of Jennifer Tilly. I just always thought it was a bit of a one-joke “the doll is actually evil” cheap premise. Having said that, the TV show is absolutely fantastic.