American Horror Story Scores Second-Season Order

LOS ANGELES: FX has placed a second-season order for 13 new episodes of the Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk series American Horror Story.

From Twentieth Century Fox Television, American Horror Story is off to a solid start for the network, with first-run episodes averaging 4.2 million total viewers. It is currently on track to become the highest rated first season of any series on FX. The premiere episode delivered a multi-run telecast audience of 8 million total viewers.

Nine all-new episodes of the show remain in its first season, airing Wednesdays at 10 p.m. The final two episodes are set for broadcast on December 21.

"It’s one thing to have the ambition and guts to reinvent a genre in a way that makes it captivatingly fresh for a broad audience—it’s something else entirely to have the craft to back that ambition up," said John Landgraf, the president and general manager of FX Networks. "Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have hit the trifecta with Nip/Tuck, Glee and now American Horror Story, which will be scaring FX’s viewers to death for many years to come."