'Sleepy Hollow' Season 3 Spoilers News: Fox Drama to Return for New Season with New Showrunner

Ichabod Crane just dodged another swinging ax after "Sleepy Hollow" has been confirmed for a third season along with a new showrunner.

Fox confirmed it will be renewing the supernatural drama at least for another season as the company recruited executive producer Clifton Campbell to take over the writers' room next season.

"Sleepy Hollow is truly inventive television. I had the pleasure of working with Clifton on both The Glades and White Collar," Fox Entertainment President David Madden said.

"He is an excellent producer, and we can't wait to see what this team has in store for Season 3," he added, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Madden expressed hope that Campbell will be able to help the producers and cast of the show to continue creating a fantastic world that brings "history" to life with compelling and vibrant storytelling.

Madden issued the statement after the network previously announced that Mark Goffman, who ran the series for the first two years, will be leaving the show soon.

Goffman, Variety said, signed an overall deal with CBS Studios earlier this month after ratings for "Sleepy Hollow" declined in the second season.

Despite being anchored by "Gotham," the second season of "Sleepy Hollow" fell hard from its freshman season, dipping to 7.1 million overall viewers from 11.1 million in Season 1, Variety reported.

Season 2 saw Crane and Lieutenant Abbie Mills triumph over evil, but their actions resulted in the death of Katrina Crane, who was the target of considerable fan scorn.

Reports said the third season will "explore how the partnership between Crane and Mills will evolve and what challenges these two witnesses will now face."

Back in January, Fox TV Group Chairman Dana Walden explained that the possible reason for "Sleepy Hollow" dipping in the ratings could be because of the direction the series took.

Prior to the announcement that it had been renewed, Walden said they wanted to get "Sleepy Hollow" back to how it was before, according to the Inquistr.

"We are excited about some creative changes on the show. We want to get back to something that feels a little bit more episodic in nature; it has become overly serialized. We are trying to return the fun to it a little bit. This is all about calibrating the show, not making dramatic changes," Walden said.

Given Campbell's recent resume of procedural crime dramas, Season 3 of "Sleepy Hollow" is expected to have a less serialized and more of a threat-of-the-week format.