'Hell on Wheels' to return for final season

Hell on Wheels -- the small-screen western starring Anson Mount, Colm Meaney and Common -- will return for a fifth and final season, AMC announced.
Seven new episodes will air next summer, with the final seven installments of the series following in the summer of 2016.
"With Season 5 of Hell on Wheels, we are proud to bring our transcontinental journey to conclusion for the large, loyal audience that has traveled with Cullen Bohannon and his crew for so many years," AMC President Charlie Collier said in a statement. "We look forward to appropriately honoring Hell on Wheels in this final season. Enormous thanks to the terrific writers, cast and crew for all they have achieved and for all that lies ahead in the Wild West."
The first of the final three episodes of Season 4 is to air Saturday.