{"id":642445,"date":"2026-10-10T18:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/642445\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T18:52:08","slug":"amc-mayfair-witches-season-3-release-date-yaga-and-kill-jackie-teased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/642445\/","title":{"rendered":"AMC Mayfair Witches Season 3 Release Date, Yaga and Kill Jackie Teased"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMayfair Witches<\/a> season three arrives this December, and fans got a first look at what\u2019s in store, plus new glimpses of the first seasons of Kill Jackie<\/a> and Yaga<\/a>, as well as the fourth and final season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.<\/p>\n

\n\tAMC<\/a> Global Media revealed that the latest season of the Anne Rice Universe series will premiere on Dec. 30 as part of a conversation tied to the season\u2019s tease. In the panel\u2019s last half hour, the cast of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon celebrated the legacy of The Walking Dead spinoff.<\/p>\n

Stars and executive producers Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride took the stage with showrunner and executive producer David Zabel and executive producer Scott M. Gimple for a panel where the cast and creative team previewed the fourth and final season coming in February, including new footage and a teaser trailer.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the rest of the two-hour panel, creatives and actors behind the new series Yaga, led by Carrie-Ann Moss, and Kill Jackie, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones<\/a>, shared what fans can expect. Read below for more.<\/p>\n

\t\tKill Jackie\t<\/p>\n

\n\tKill Jackie kicked off the two-hour panel, with executive producer and star Catherine Zeta-Jones joined by showrunner and EP Tom Butterworth and EP Peter Lawson. Based on Nick Harkaway\u2019s novel The Price You Pay, the show follows Jackie Price, a former drug queenpin hunted by seven elite assassins. Her fierce survival instincts see her turn the tables on them, transforming their hunt into her own cat-and-mouse game.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to the adaptation process, Lawson noted that when he got his hands on it, \u201cI just found the tone and this character unlike anything I [had] read or seen before. The book was actually written for a male protagonist, Jack Price. Obviously, we have made a few changes.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a project where everyone, including Zeta-Jones, agreed \u201cno assholes\u201d in terms of the cast and working environment, the most fun part of the process \u201cwas when I approached Catherine with the book. I said, \u2018Look, you know, it\u2019s written as a man, but there are many traits I don\u2019t want to touch. I think you can embody all of these things. There\u2019s so much more as a female to this. That was how we jumped off. She was very brave, and I think understood the voice and the unique tone of what we wanted to try and make it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Butterworth, the decision to gender bend the lead character \u201chappened quite early on\u2026 and that\u2019s when I got involved because that idea really intrigued and excited me,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat I found funniest about it was that although the [person]l in the book is nuts, he thinks everyone else in the world\u2019s more nuts than him.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Zeta-Jones, the gender swap was also the most appealing part of the role for her. \u201cAt this point in my life, I want to surprise myself. I want to take myself out of my comfort zone. [It\u2019s] a role that I\u2019ve been desperate to play because you wouldn\u2019t think this was a quintessential Catherine Zeta-Jones role. It\u2019s not like Zorro\u2019s mum,\u201d she quipped. \u201cIt was a 360. It was a role that I could let my hair out, let it all hang out, basically, and get down and dirty.\u201d<\/p>\n

In terms of why she signed on as an EP, Zeta-Jones said her dual actor-producer role was based in her being \u201cat the grassroots of the show\u201d and the showrunner giving her \u201ccarte blanche to bring the female version through into this new reinvention of a great book.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I go on to any set, I\u2019ve never been afraid of coming to, for example, Tim Burton and saying, \u2018Hey, Tim, what about this? Why don\u2019t we try it like this in rehearsals?\u2019 I think the more creative collaboration we can all get together in one creative space, it can only make the work better. It makes it much more fun. You\u2019re creating as you go, and so for me, my executive producer credit \u2014 which was graciously given by our showrunner Tom and by Peter \u2014 was that I was so into it, that my contribution was beyond just coming to read what was off the page.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe role required quite a bit of action and stunt work, which Butterworth noted \u201cfelt like that had to be really pushed and feel like it was really extreme\u201d due to where Jackie starts the story, as an art dealer. \u201cIt was as shocking and as nuts as possible, and that after that, she would never be the same character for you. That\u2019s why it\u2019s pushed that far. I didn\u2019t realize Catherine would be so good at spitting ears, though.\u201d For Zeta-Jones, who called Jackie a rash, beautiful character who \u201cdoesn\u2019t give a shit,\u201d the action sequences were built from a foundation in dance. \u201cI think without my dance background, I\u2019d never be able to do this or have any desire to do them, because my body \u2014 I \u2014 would be physically scared.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tYaga\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAs part of the panel, executive producer and star Carrie-Anne Moss<\/a>, showrunner and executive producer Kat Sandler, and executive producer Mackenzie Donaldson appeared to tease what awaits fans in a series based on a spin of Baba Yaga. The series follows a private investigator who arrives in a small coastal town to investigate the disappearance of a young heir to a powerful fishery. There, he clashes with an apprehensive local detective, a charismatic university professor, and a labyrinth of enigmatic suspects, secret vibes, and ancient magic.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor showrunner Sandler, the opportunity to explore witches meant reclaiming powerful women\u2019s narratives. \u201cIn researching witches and who were the witches who were burned, it\u2019s often just educated women or women who could read or were living alone and were healers or midwives or doing something that was outside the norm at the time,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve really been trying to posit is a witch is just someone that society has decided they\u2019re afraid of, and what could be scarier than an older, sexually powerful woman living alone in the woods and doing whatever the fuck she wants?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think women are really reclaiming our power and reclaiming the way that stories are told about us historically by men, and I think witches are just such an epic symbol of female power and danger,\u201d she continued before discussing the show more broadly later in the panel. \u201dIt\u2019s extremely fucked up, but in the best way. We\u2019ve had people saying this whole time, \u2018God, your brain is so wild. It\u2019s so fucked up. What a fucked up thing.\u2019 I actually don\u2019t think a world where women are powerful and punish the invisible monsters in society is fucked up at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking about the show\u2019s pitching process, Donaldson revealed that \u201cabout three years ago, a network called me \u2014 Crave \u2014 in Canada and said, \u2018Do you have any half-hour dramas? Yeah, let\u2019s shout out Crave and AMC,\u201d Sandler said to crowd cheers. \u201cI said, \u2018What if it\u2019s a half-hour drama?\u2019 Except I kept that to myself, and I hung up the phone and called my best friend Kat, who I\u2019ve been trying to get to the dark side from theater for 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCrave didn\u2019t say yes right away. \u201cA few months later, Kat had a show called Wild Woman at a festival\u2026 in Toronto, and we sent them tickets. The next day, I got the call, and they wanted to put it into development. So luckily, we never had to pitch that impossible pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

In terms of why Moss came on, she shared that \u201cI know who Baba Yaga is as a story. I\u2019m intrigued by that story, and I have been for a long time. But it was talking to [Kat], that I have a passion for being a part of someone else\u2019s purpose and someone else\u2019s dream. It means a lot to me to be able to do that,\u201d she told the NYCC<\/a> crowd. \u201cAnd of course, I wanted to play the character. It was a juicy, amazing character. I could hear myself in the scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n

In terms of the show\u2019s challenges, including budget limitations, Moss said it provided a meaningful experience as compared to bigger franchises. \u201cIt was really unique in that we did it in a very short period of time, and it really asked all of us involved in all departments to really bring everything every day,\u201d she said. \u201cSometimes you do these bigger projects that have a lot more budget, which are really fun to do too, don\u2019t get me wrong. But there\u2019s something very creative about everyone knowing that they\u2019re coming here and doing everything they can to serve her vision again.\u201d<\/p>\n

While discussing the characterizations present in the series, Sandler noted that star Noah Reid\u2019s Rapp may be an honest representation of men, if not the most likable. \u201cEveryone in the show is always performing. There\u2019s always two sides to everything, and there\u2019s the side that you present to the public and decide that you know to be true,\u201d she shared. \u201cI think one of the things that was fun about making the show was that idea that characters don\u2019t have to be likable for us to enjoy them, and none of these characters are entirely good, or entirely evil, or entirely likable, or entirely charming and wonderful. They all contain multitudes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for working with the cast, Moss pointed to Clark Backo\u2019s work and her character Carson as being one of the show\u2019s most dynamic. \u201cShe\u2019s a beautiful person, and she did a wonderful job playing this very complex character,\u201d the actress said of her co-star. She also noted she has one major scene with co-star Hudson Williams. Bringing the Heated Rivalry actor into the series was a suggestion to the show\u2019s creative team, with his casting around the time he was serving as an Olympic torchbearer after he and his team read all of the series\u2019 scripts.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI remember texting him, and he was like, \u2018Sorry, it\u2019s really bumpy in Italy. I was like, \u2018Are you on the way to carry the torch for the Olympics?\u2019\u201d Sadlar recalled. \u201cI think it was in February that we cast him, and it had been suggested that we offer him one of these parts. The parts had always been split into two, and they were always meant to be lookalikes. I said, why not offer him both? It\u2019s a bit more of a fun challenge for him to get to play. I wrote him another letter, just like I\u2019d written Carrie-Anne. We had a meeting, and he signed on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tMayfair Witches: Salem Coven\t<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the third portion of the panel, the creative team teased how Salem and the books, among other things, will weave together in the Anne Rise Universe entry\u2019s third season. The panel, which featured cast members Alexandra Daddario<\/a>, Harry Hamlin, Tongayi Chirisa, Betsy Brandt and Eliza Scanlen, as well as co-showrunners and executive producers Esta Spalding and Tom Schnauz, and EP Mark Johnson, kicked off by teasing how the books will take viewers to another location and evolve audiences\u2019 relationship to what\u2019s on the page.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor the team, it\u2019s \u201creally inspired by the books. There\u2019s still all of our beloved characters, and we meet some new Mayfairers this season who are very much inspired by the books, but we\u2019re not working off of exact story from the books anymore,\u201d said Spalding. Added Schnauz: \u201cI think there was just an urge to shake it up and do something different, and that\u2019s why getting out of New Orleans and going to Salem felt like the right move to do under these circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpalding notes that while Anne Rice\u2019s novels don\u2019t quite relocate the family of witches to Salem as the show does, \u201cI think there\u2019s a bunch of mentions of Salem.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe interesting thing about Salem is that you know the people were innocent; they weren\u2019t witches. So what we find interesting about Salem is that we keep imagining that there were a bunch of witches there who were not caught, but who were very unhappy about what was happening in 1693, and that Salem and our Salem and our characters come into that story of those witches and their lineage,\u201d she added about the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Johnson, \u201cWe sort of embrace the irony that Salem basically lives on the commercialization of witches. Of course, they don\u2019t exist. It\u2019s all make-believe, and then we presuppose \u2014 maybe not so fast. Maybe they actually are there, embedded.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn terms of where Rowan will be coming out of the events of season two, \u201cWe felt like we wanted to see her much more badass than she\u2019d ever been before. One of the ways that she could be her great witchy self and powerful, and as you said, be funnier and looser, was to have more people she could play off of. So I think bringing in the character of Jessica, who is a witch who doesn\u2019t know that she\u2019s trapped in Salem \u2014 she\u2019s grown up there, she just thinks that\u2019s where she lives, and she hasn\u2019t ever left \u2014 and having somebody who Alex could play off of who\u2019s really comedic and full of heart, let Rowan be much, much more commanding and sometimes make the wrong decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Daddario, Rowan\u2019s shifts in season three reflect how the character changes as she ages. \u201cI just know from my own life, having a kid and turning 40, I\u2019m like, let\u2019s just see what happens now. \u2018What is this shit? What\u2019s going on?\u201d she said. \u201cSo I got to put a little bit of that into the character, and I think that\u2019s where she is. She\u2019s been dealing with this for a long time, and now she\u2019s like, \u2018What is this now? You\u2019re telling me I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019m getting out of here, and then you hit all these roadblocks and go down this amazing adventure.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The panel also discussed how Hamlin\u2019s Cortland, now possessed by Julian, will change going into season two. \u201cThe operative phrase is batshit crazy. As Julian Mayfair, I get to make out with my mother,\u201d Hamlin said to laughs. \u201cThank you Tom and Esther for writing this beautiful character that I get to play. The thing about Anne Rice is that people can come back to life, and then they can have it off with their mother.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for how Hamlin specifically played the role differently, \u201cWhat these guys brought to this new season, to season three, we didn\u2019t really have the same vibe in season two. But whatever you brought, I went with that. I didn\u2019t want to keep too much from season two. I wanted to embrace batshit crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayfair Witches season three arrives this December, and fans got a first look at what\u2019s in store, plus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[152371,24486,253461,31350,146,85,46,263028,74400,45839,49454,411,253464],"class_list":["post-642445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-alexandra-daddario","tag-amc","tag-carrie-anne-moss","tag-catherine-zeta-jones","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kill-jackie","tag-mayfair-witches","tag-new-york-comic-con","tag-nycc","tag-tv","tag-yaga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}