“Time for war.”
WGN AMERICA ANNOUNCES PREMIERE DATE FOR SEASON TWO OF ITS SPELLBINDING ORIGINAL DRAMA ‘SALEM’ AND DEBUTS FIRST-LOOK PHOTO
“Salem” Returns for Season Two on Sunday, April 5 at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT
Recurring guest stars Lucy Lawless and Stuart Townsend Join Returning Cast
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CAPTION: (L-R) Stuart Townsend as Samuel Wainwright and Janet
Montgomery as Mary Sibley in the first look from WGN America’s SALEM
Season 2, returning Sunday, April 5 at 10pm ET / 9pm CT. PHOTO CREDIT:
WGN America
LOS ANGELES, January 28, 2015 – WGN America has set the premiere date for the highly anticipated second season of its hit supernatural thriller “Salem,” which will make its return on Sunday,
April 5 at 10:00 p.m. ET/ 9:00 p.m. CT. The network also released the
first-look photo from the new season of “Salem,” currently in production
in Shreveport, LA for its 13-episode
sophomore run, featuring recurring guest stars Lucy Lawless (“Xena:
Warrior Princess,” “Spartacus”) and Stuart Townsend (“Betrayal,” “The
League of Extraordinary Gentleman”).
From
creators and writers Brannon Braga (“Cosmos,” “24”) and Adam Simon
(“The Haunting in Connecticut”), “Salem” season two opens at the dawn of
the witch war set into motion at the end of season one, with its
catalyst and Salem’s deadliest witch, Mary Sibley (Janet Montgomery,
“Made in Jersey,” “Human Target”) at the center of the mayhem as she
faces off against new and old adversaries vying for her throne. In the
wake of the destruction caused by the Grand Rite, completed by Mary and
inadvertently triggered by Isaac Walton (Iddo Goldberg, “Mob City”) in
the season one finale, the fates of Captain John Alden (Shane West,
“Nikita, “ER”), Cotton Mather (Seth Gabel, “Arrow,” “Fringe”), Tituba
(Ashley Madekwe, “Revenge”), Anne Hale (Tamzin Merchant, “Jane Eyre”),
Mercy Lewis (Elise Eberle, “The Astronaut Farmer”) and Isaac hang in the
balance.
New to the embattled 17th-century
village for the second season of “Salem” are Lucy Lawless as Countess
Marburg, one of the last descendants of a legendary line of ancient
German witches; Stuart Townsend as Samuel Wainwright, a mysterious
doctor looking to uncover the secrets of Salem as he keeps a few of his
own; Joe Doyle (“Raw”) as Baron Sebastian Marburg, the charming and cultured son of the Countess;
and Oliver Bell (“The Saint”) as Mary’s long-lost son, who was revealed
in the season one finale to have been secretly kept alive all along by
her coven.
“Salem,” called “perversely entertaining” by The New York Times and “a sexy good time” by The Hollywood Reporter, is a bold re-imagination of the infamous 17th century witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
“Salem”
is executive produced by Brannon Braga, Adam Simon, Kelly Souders,
Brian Peterson and Prospect Park’s Josh Barry and Jeff Kwatinez. Nick
Copus directs and serves as co-executive producer. The series is
produced by Fox 21.
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