AMC to Air PREACHER Marathon This Week

AMC will air a special marathon of the buzzed about series "Preacher" on Thursday, June 30th beginning at 9:00 PM ET/PT. Fans of the series who can't get enough and viewers who need to catch up on the action can watch the first five episodes of "Preacher" and enjoy bonus, behind-the-scenes footage within each episode. The new, sixth episode of the season appears on AMC this Sunday in the show's regular timeslot at 9:00 p.m.

Based on the popular cult comic book franchise of the same name, "Preacher" is a supernatural and darkly comedic drama that follows a Texas preacher named Jessie Custer who is inhabited by a mysterious entity called Genesis that gives him the power to make people do whatever he commands. Once this power attracts the attention of two mysterious angels, Fiore and DeBlanc, Jesse, his badass ex-girlfriend Tulip, and an Irish vampire named Cassidy are thrust into a crazy world populated by a cast of characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between.

The Sony Pictures Television and AMC Studios co-production, developed for television by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg ("This Is the End," "Superbad," "Neighbors") and showrunner Sam Catlin ("Breaking Bad"), stars Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, Joseph Gilgun as Cassidy, Ruth Negga as Tulip, Lucy Griffiths as Emily, W. Earl Brown as Sherriff Root, Anatol Yusef as DeBlanc, Tom Brooke as Fiore, Derek Wilson as Donnie Schenck and Ian Colletti as Eugene/Arseface.