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At the 2025 ATX TV Festival, show runners and executive producers behind Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Lestat), Mayfair Witches, and Talamasca: The Secret Order discussed the storytelling behind the Immortal Universe franchise at the Vampires, Witches, and Other Secret Societies: Inside AMC’s Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe panel.

I talked to the show runners and the executive producers of the Immortal Universe, Rolin Jones (Showrunner / Executive Producer, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire), John Lee Hancock & Mark Lafferty (Showrunners / Executive Producers, Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order), John Lee Hancock and Mark Lafferty (Showrunners / Executive Producers, Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order) about avoiding franchise fatigue by taring different audiences with each show being in different genres, how Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Lestat) embraced Black culture, and if Jacob Anderson contributed musically to season 3 on Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Lestat).