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Hell on Wheels - General Information
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Status: Break -- Between Seasons
Premiere: November 06, 2011
Classification: Scripted
Genre: Drama | Western
Network: AMC (USA)
Airs: Sundays at 10:00 pm
Runtime: 60 Minutes
Season 1 -- 10 episodes -- Nov 6, 2011 to Jan 15, 2012 -- Completed
Season 2 -- Renewewd -- Air Date Unknown/TBA
On December 23, 2011, AMC renewed Hell on Wheels for a second season. In January 2012, following the season one finale, AMC put out a press release confirming Hell on Wheels as the network's second-highest rated original series, behind "The Walking Dead", averaging three million viewers per episode.
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About the show
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Set in 1865, the series centers on the settlement that accompanied the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, referred to as "Hell on Wheels" by the company men, surveyors, support workers, laborers, prostitutes, mercenaries and others who make the mobile encampment their home. It stars Anson Mount as Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier who works as a foreman on the railroad as he tries to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young son.
Hell on Wheels is an American dramatic television series created and produced by Joe and Tony Gayton.
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Date of last review or update: April 25, 2012
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