HBO’s highly anticipated “True Detective: Night Country” has been delayed from a planned Fall debut to a January 2024 premiere.
No official reason for the delay has been given though it’s potentially due to the actor’s strikes with the network likely wanting the show’s two stars out there to promote the series.
In addition, HBO had huge success this past January with the premiere of its “The Last of Us” series and so have no problems utilising that launch window.
The series marks the fourth season of HBO’s “True Detective” anthology crime drama and marks the first in which original show creator Nic Pizzolatto isn’t involved beyond contractual credits.
The series will take place in the small town of Ennis, Alaska during the long winter night, when eight men who work operating the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish with no explanation.
Detective Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) have to confront their own dark pasts and hidden truths in order to solve this Arctic mystery.
John Hawkes, Christopher Eccleston, Fiona Shaw, Finn Bennett, Anna Lambe, Aka Niviana, Isabella Star Lablanc, and Joel D. Montgrand also star. The project marks Foster’s first on-screen TV series work since the early 1970s.
Issa Lopez will serve as showrunner, writer, and director of all episodes of the upcoming season with Foster, Barry Jenkins, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Mari Jo Winkler, Steve Golin, Richard Brown, Alan Page Arriaga, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson executive producing.
Source: Deadline
