AMC announced today the renewal of HELL ON WHEELS for a third season with John Wirth (V, FALLEN SKIES, TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES) serving as executive producer and showrunner. Season three of the series has been greenlit for ten, one-hour episodes and is scheduled to premiere in third quarter 2013.Centered on the lawless town known as HELL ON WHEELS, that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, the series examines the railroad’s institutionalized greed and corruption, the immigrant experience and the plight of the newly emancipated African-Americans during reconstruction. HELL ON WHEELS second season wrapped in October with an average of 2.4 million viewers and 3.2 million viewers with Live plus 7.