‘Sleepy Hollow’ Renewed For Season 3!

Despite rumors brewing about Sleepy Hollow‘s recent critical and ratings woes, Fox has renewed their supernatural series for a third season with Clifton Campbell replacing Mark Goffman as showrunner.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

After losing showrunner Mark Goffman, the network has renewed the series and tapped The Glades alum Clifton Campbell to take over the reins of the genre series for its third season.

 

The renewal comes as Sleepy Hollow underwent a bit of a creative reinvention in the back-half of its already completed second season. New network toppers Dana Walden and Gary Newman wanted the series to take on a more episodic nature versus its complex serialized storytelling.

Campbell’s most recent television work has been serving as executive producer for The Glades, and before that White Collar and Street Time, the latter of which I’m not making up. Street Time was the actual title for a real TV show.

Sleepy Hollow seemed invincible in its first season and was a bona fide hit with audiences and critics alike. It dominated the ratings in its freshman year, but by the second season reception turned a little lukewarm and the ratings took a dip. While I personally believe the show resurrected itself (so to speak) with its well-done, totally novel season finale, the cold ratings numbers said otherwise and doom loomed over the once-critical darling. It almost reminded me of Constantine‘s woes, but even Constantine didn’t get the high ride of a stellar season one.

Seriously, at some point this year Sleepy Hollow was almost done for.

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With this renewal my concerns for the show are relieved for now, as I have another year of one of my favorite shows to enjoy. But I do hope they keep up the momentum they ignited from the climactic last few minutes of season two. It’d be a shame for a show like Sleepy Hollow to bite the dust before it could reach its full potential.