Kevin Smith’s AMC reality series Comic Book Men has been renewed for a fourth season, the network announced today as part of their upfront/development presentation.Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman will also take their Hollywood Babble-On podcast to the airwaves as a late-night talk show on the network.Comic Book Men, in its third season, is averaging one million viewers (live + same day) and more than 720,000 adults 18-49 at midnight on Sunday nights.Building on the late night success of Comic Book Men, AMC is expanding its relationship with Kevin Smith to include the development of a late night project, Hollywood Babble-On, starring Smith and his co-host of their wildly popular podcast, Ralph Garman, to be produced by Wilshire Studios of The Soup fame and executive produced by Kevin Smith, Ralph Garman and Gary Auerbach.AMC is also working with Smith on the development of a docuseries featuring super-collector and Comic Book Men regular, Robert Bruce. Produced by Original Media, LLC and Smith’s Smodcast Pictures, and executive produced by Dan Laikind, Charlie Corwin, Elyse Seiden and Kevin Smith, Bruce and his fellow experts scour the country searching real estate sales, auction houses and flea markets on a quest to find rare items that will feed the needs of his demanding clients and add to Bruce’s own colossal collection.”I got lucky and believe me, I know it every second of the day,” Smith said when asked about a renewal at New York Comic Con.. “I’m not sitting there going, ‘this show’s so f–ing frighteningly original that it deserves the attention it gets.’ No. We’ve got a very friendly network who happens to like the show a lot. It helps when the network actually likes the show. And they’re supportive. They kind of like the numbers it pulled, especially based on the costs, so boom! We come out with season three. Now, it’ll come the same thing at the end of this season will happen where we go, ‘God, I wonder if they’ll go one more season.’ Because for me I jsut wanted one. If we could do just one season of a show–fantastic. Then you get to the end of it and suddenly it’s like ‘two. Two would make us legitimate and then they could cancel it and s–t.’ But then when we got to three, well now the pressure is kind of off. If they cancel it after this season, I’ll be like, ‘Look, they gave us a great f—ing run and I’ve got a bunch of episodes of a show that stars my f—ing friends. That, to me, will be the greatest trick the devil ever f—ing pulled. So it doesn’t matter if it goes on for five years, ten years or one year–it happened and the fact that they keep bringing us back feels wonderful but it must mean that we’re doing something right.”
