Syfy
The zombie drama is currently in the midst of its second season.
Syfy is planning a return trip to Z Nation.
The NBCUniversal-owned cable network has renewed the zombie drama for a third season, Syfy announced Friday.
The channel has ordered 15 new episodes, which are slated to debut in 2016. The series is currently in the middle of its second season, averaging 1.5 million total viewers in live-plus-seven numbers.
The series, which takes place three years after a zombie virus has gutted the country, hails from executive producer Karl Schaefer (Eureka) serves Z Nation is produced by The Asylum and sold internationally by Dynamic Television.
Z Nation joins other original Syfy programs including 12 Monkeys, Bitten, Olympus, Dark Matter, Killjoys and Haven and Lost Girl, the latter two which are heading into their final seasons. Syfy recently canceled several original programs including Defiance and Dominion as part of the network's returned focus to genre programming like the upcoming Childhood's End and The Expanse.
Z Nation, which recently welcomed special guest star George R.R. Martin, airs Fridays at 10 p.m. on Syfy.
