“We were budgeting and everything and it was getting really close to going,” Johnson told Comics Continuum. “But the new head of HBO felt it was just too dark and too violent and too controversial. Which, of course, is kind of the point!”
If that’s the reason the show will not come to pass, I’m actually glad for its demise. To make a tame, watered-down Preacher would be far worse than never making Preacher at all. Of course, there’s always the possibility of a film or two, but something tells me that would be even more difficult to push through.
But hell, if someone finally made Watchmen a reality, anything’s possible so keep on hoping!