Streaming giant Netflix has renewed zombie-comedy Santa Clarita Diet for a third season. The full cast, including Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant, are set to return for 10 new half-hour episodes in 2019.
Season two premiered in March and revealed the source of the zombie outbreak, with showrunner Victor Fresco telling THR in April that the writers had already started work on a third cycle — with their fingers crossed for a pickup.
“There’s always more story. The whole season one took place over two weeks and season two takes place over two weeks, so they’re still only about a month into this incredible change that they’re going through,” he said.
While Netflix, like fellow streamers Hulu and Amazon, does not release viewership, the second season of the comedy from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment has a stronger audience score (82 percent) on RottenTomatoes than its freshman run (75 percent). Liv Hewson and Skyler Gisondo co-star.
