From G4tv.com:
"The upcoming adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher comic for HBO has been canned. Kaput. Squashed. Killed. Dead.
Executive producer Mark Steven Johnson (director, Daredevil, Ghost Rider), who wrote the one-hour TV series pilot, tells Comics Continuum that the new head of the cable network thought the series “was just too dark and too violent and too controversial.”
For HBO?
“It was a very faithful adaptation of the first few books, nearly word for word,” says Johnson. “They offered me the chance to redevelop it but I refused. I’ve learned my lesson on that front and I won’t do it again. So I’m afraid it’s dead at HBO.”"
That makes me angry. Though I didn't even know they were making one.