American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy says he’s contemplating a double run of the show next year….
American Horror Story has quickly become one of the most watched shows on television, not to mention the biggest series currently airing on FX.
Last season’s American Horror Story: Freak Show got the highest ratings in the show’s history and as the latest version — American Horror Story: Hotel — gets ready to debut on October 7, show creator Ryan Murphy is thinking about adding even more horror to the story.
“Next year we might do a fall American Horror Story and a spring,” Murphy said to EW. “We have to decide.”
According to Murphy, the American Horror Story writing team will get split into two parts to work on separate stories with the possibility of launching a new season in spring 2016 and then again for the regular show launch in fall 2016.
“We’re doing something that we’ve never done before on the show where we’re doing two different groups of writers rooms,” Murphy said. “Some of our writers will be bouncing around but a whole different group coming in late August. The next thing we’re crafting up is very, very different than this. Not smaller. But just not opulent. More rogue and more dark.”
From the sound of things, it’s still just a possibility at this point but considering the popularity of American Horror Story and the fact that the show runs as an anthology series with characters rarely carrying over from one season to the next, this would be one show that could definitely run two seasons per year without getting watered down.
With the ratings American Horror Story pulls for FX, the network would likely be on board for this as well.
Stay tuned to see if American Horror Story does indeed pull of two seasons in 2016!
