{"id":66943,"date":"2014-10-14T10:03:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T09:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=66943"},"modified":"2014-10-14T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T09:03:50","slug":"american-horror-story-season-5-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/american-horror-story-season-5-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"American Horror Story Season 5 confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66948\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/american-horror-story-freak-show.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-66948\" alt=\"american-horror-story-freak-show\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/american-horror-story-freak-show.png\" width=\"616\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/american-horror-story-freak-show.png 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/american-horror-story-freak-show-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Paulson as Bette and Dot Tattler in American Horror Story: Freak Show<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>American Horror Story<\/em><\/strong> will be returning for Season 5 after the fourth season premiere broke records for FX.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/tv\/ratings\/american-horror-story-freak-show-premiere-is-fxs-most-watched-telecast-ever-1201328629\/\">Variety<\/a> confirmed that Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk&#8217;s show has been picked up by FX for another season after the first episode of Freak Show smashed previous record holders, including <strong><em>AHS<\/em><\/strong>&#8216; third season <strong><em>Coven<\/em><\/strong> and the biker gang drama <strong><em>Sons Of Anarchy<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a huge surprise but the question remains: Will Jessica Lange return? Murphy recently spoke about how he hopes to convince her to return in some capacity, even if it&#8217;s not as the star.<\/p>\n<p><strong>American Horror Story: Freak Show begins on 21 October on Fox in the UK. Keep up with the latest genre TV news with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3151\/s\/scifinow-issue-98\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">new issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Horror Story will get a fifth season after record-breaking Freak Show premiere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":66948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[2230],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/american-horror-story-freak-show.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}