The Night Agent EP Shawn Ryan Talks Quick Renewal and His Season 2 Plan

WHAT WILL THE NIGHT AGENT SEASON 2 BE ABOUT?

Based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk, Season 1 of The Night Agent follows Peter Sutherland (played by Gabriel Basso), a low-level FBI Agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings — until the night that it does. That urgent call, from Luciane Buchanan’s Rose Larkin, propels both Peter and tech whiz Rose into a fast-moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office.

Author Quirk, however, has no second novel featuring FBI Agent Sutherland on which to base Season 2 of the TV series.

“He’s written plenty of books, but nothing with these characters in this world,” Night Agent showrunner Shawn Ryan notes. “So it’s something that with the pickup we’re now working on.”

While admitting he wants to be “intentionally vague,” Ryan continues, “I’ve certainly had some ideas, from the very beginning, of what we might do in a Season 2. We’re still working on the ideas, and we’ll have to present them to Sony and Netflix” — starting with a preliminary meeting happening the afternoon of April 3.

Will Season 2 revolve around Agent Sutherland’s first mission as a bona fide Night Agent, which he embarked on in the Season 1 finale after bidding Rose a (hopefully) temporary adieu?

“I would say that that that will be the starting-off point, to sort of see what he was being sent off to do. But we have some surprises…,” Ryan allows. “I don’t want to say too much, because until you’re actually filming it, the stories can always change.”

WHEN WILL THE NIGHT AGENT SEASON 2 COME OUT?

“Now that the pickup is official, we, have a writers room that’s getting going to get together to tell these stories,” Night Agent showrunner Shawn Ryan tells TVLine. “As we did last year, we have ideas, we’re pursuing them, and we’ll change our minds along the way if we think of something better.”

But if things move swiftly and smoothly enough, might cameras get rolling on Season 2 as early as this coming summer…?

“In all honesty, I’m having my first phone call at 11 o’clock today with the studio to discuss [Season 2],” Ryan told TVLine during our April 3 Zoom. “I mean, the pickup really did take me by surprise, because it was so quick, so I wanted to take the week to think about it. But the first call about the production, where will we film, and what’s the potential schedule, that is going to happen in about an hour-and-a-half.”

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