American Horror Story might be running 2 seasons for 2016 following the outstanding success of Freak Show, which garnered the biggest audience and most Emmy nominations of any of the iterations.
The next theme is Hotel.
Ryan Murphy and his writing team are considering doing 2 seasons next year after the success they’ve had.
“Next year we might do a fall American Horror Story and a spring,” says Murphy. “We have to decide.”
He adds, “We’re doing something that we’ve never done before on the show where we’re doing two different groups of writers rooms. 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.”
The Hotel theme is based on Dr. H.H. Holmes, famed serial killer at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair whose story is chronicled in Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City which is set to be made into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese.