Will Trent Scores Early Season 3 Renewal at ABC
There will be more Will Trent on ABC, as the series has officially been renewed for Season 3. This is an early renewal for the show, which has only aired five episodes of its current second season. season.
According to Variety, Will Trent’s renewal comes as the series continues to maintain its audience popularity, making ABC much more confident about renewing it for Season 3. The show recently scored its highest viewership rating ever, reaching over 9 million viewers across multiple platforms in its first seven days. This apparent increase in viewership further solidifies the ABC drama’s place on television, and it should let fans know that there’s more to look forward to after the current season concludes.
ABC has identified which shows are worth bringing back for the next television season. The network recently renewed Grey’s Anatomy for Season 21, and despite how long the series has been on the air, the news isn’t shocking, helping the show remain popular. Next up is the early renewal of 9-1-1, which will return for Season 8. The latter aired its first six seasons on Fox before being canceled and then rescued by ABC.
Will Trent was developed for television by Liz Heldens and Daniel Thomsen. The show is based on the original Will Trent novels by Karin Slaughter, and the author serves as an executive producer on the TV adaptation. Oly Obst is also an executive producer, and series star Ramón Rodríguez serves as a producer. 20th Television is producing.
Ramón Rodríguez leads the cast as Will Trent, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent whose talents and sharp wit help him solve complex cases that would be too difficult for his contemporaries. The series also stars Erika Christensen, Iantha Richardson, Jake McLaughlin, and Sonja Sohn. The series also features notable guest stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar, John Ortiz, and LisaGay Hamilton.
Some unused ideas from Season 2 could be used in Season 3 “I think there are some ideas that were there that need to be scrapped,” Rodríguez previously told Parade about Season 2 having a shorter season. “We talked about some of the things that could be there if there was a Season 3, some of the things that we could explore there. It basically just cut back on some of the things that we were thinking about maybe playing with things that maybe couldn’t happen. It just makes you look at it and really think, ‘Do we really want to make sure that we touch on the emotions, the personalities of all of our characters, what are the instances that we really think would really help highlight that this has gone on beyond one episode?'” Previous episodes of Will Trent are streaming on Hulu.
