AMC Networks’ Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches is getting a big premiere, Variety reports.
The entertainment company will debut the series next month across five of its channels: AMC, IFC, SundanceTV, BBC America, and WE TV. It will also be broadcast on AMC+, the company’s streaming service.
The series is based on Lives of the Mayfair Witches, Rice’s trilogy of fantasy novels about a family of witches haunted by an evil ghost named Lasher. The trilogy kicked off in 1990 with The Witching Hour and continued with the novels Lasher and Taltos.
The television adaptation is written by Michelle Ashford and Esta Spalding, with directors including Haifaa Al-Mansour, Michael Uppendahl, and Axelle Carolyn. The cast features Alexandra Daddario (The White Lotus), Jack Huston (Fargo), Tongayi Chirisa (iZombie), and Harry Hamlin (L.A. Law).
Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches will be the second high-profile AMC series based on Rice’s work. Interview With the Vampire, based on Rice’s 1976 bestseller, premiered in October and received widespread acclaim from critics.
AMC Networks will also air a companion documentary, All of Them Witches, later this month on AMC+ and in early January on AMC. The film will feature interviews with authors and self-professed witches and explore the history of witchcraft.
Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches is scheduled to premiere on Jan. 8, 2023.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
