AMC RELEASES COMMERCIAL FREE PREMIERE EPISODE OF "PREACHER"

Today, AMC.com released the commercial free premiere episode of "Preacher," which debuted on May 22 with 3.8 million viewers, including 2.2 million adults 25-54 in live+3 ratings. The full episode is now live on AMC.com, the AMC app and Apple TV (access links below).

"Preacher" is a supernatural, twisted and darkly comedic drama that follows a West Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that causes him to develop a highly unusual power. Jesse, his badass ex-girlfriend Tulip and an Irish vagabond named Cassidy come together and when they do, they are thrust into a crazy world populated by a cast of characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between. The series stars Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, Ruth Negga as Tulip, Joseph Gilgun as Cassidy, 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.

In the premiere episode, written by Sam Catlin and directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Jesse struggles to escape a past that is slowly catching up to him. A mysterious entity comes to earth, leaving a wave of destruction in its wake. New episodes of "Preacher" resume on Sunday, June 5th at the series regular time of 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on AMC.