

Ryan serves as showrunner and executive produces via his MiddKid Productions. Per Ryan, those questions include, “What does it mean that Peter would be a night agent? Where is he going? Now that Rose is going back to California to try to restart her tech career, where does that leave Peter and Rose?”
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RELATED: 2023 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming ( The following includes a general reference to Season 1 storylines with no major spoilers.) He would not elaborate who besides Basso will be back next season, which opens a new chapter for Peter as a Night Action agent, but revealed questions that would be answered as the story ventures beyond the original source material. That was the original plan I think it’s still a pretty solid plan.” In an interview with Deadline last week, Ryan said that the initial pitch for the show to Netflix “was that each season would tell its own, mostly self-enclosed, a beginning, middle and end story, and any future seasons would include a few but not most of the characters that we saw in the previous season. The Night Agent‘s first season, which was inspired by Quirk’s novel, centered on low-level FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Basso) who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings - until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office. “We’re proud to see The Night Agent deliver a breakout performance and become instantly embraced around the world,” said Jinny Howe, VP of Drama Series, Netflix: “Shawn Ryan has created a spy thriller sensation that viewers cannot get enough of, with a stellar cast featuring Gabriel Basso, Luciane Buchanan and Hong Chau, and we’re here to bring them more of the action and suspense they love.” RELATED: ‘The Night Agent’ EP Shawn Ryan On Spy Thriller’s Plot Twist & Body Count, More Everybody’s efforts were the reason why we ended up getting this nomination.Inspired by the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk, The Night Agent debuted on March 23, raking in 168.7M hours viewed in its first few days on the streamer, the third-best Season 1 premiere week of viewing for any Netflix original with a Top 10 finish in 93 countries. I’m very, very excited about it and honored, of course, and just tip my hat to the entire production team. All that pain and all that struggle to get the show off the ground, and of course, to get a Peabody nomination is huge.

Like, literally, it just makes it all so worth it.

They were, like, literally trying to talk him into filming in their barber shop and then a year later we’re sitting there getting a letter from Spielberg about how much he enjoyed the show. I think we were sitting there and he’s-because nobody’s ever filmed a show in Houston. And I was sitting there talking to “Slick”, our director. You think… to be sitting across James Cameron and Spielberg, that was just crazy to me. Getting honored by the American Film Institute was the first-like, whoa. Amer specifically mentions that the Jurassic Park helmer sent him a letter to express his enjoyment of Mo, which has been renewed for season 2: In the quote below, Amer talks about sitting across from the legendary director and gets emotional while recalling Spielberg's support. In a conversation with Entertainment Weekly, Amer discussed the series and reflected on his past interactions with Spielberg.
