‘Will Trent’ Season 3 Is Coming to TV Sooner Than You Think
It’s about time! We now have a premiere date for Season 3 of Will Trent, and it’s coming sooner than expected. This also means fans will get the answers they’ve been waiting for since Season 2 ended on such a convoluted note. As ABC reported via TV Insider, the highly anticipated third season will premiere on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, which is less than two months away. This will be the start of High Potential’s mid-season return and The Rookie’s Season 7 premiere.
No plot details have been revealed for Will Trent Season 3, but viewers can expect it to pick up where Season 2 left off. Will Trent Season 2, which ran for ten episodes and aired from February to May 2024, ended with the protagonist (Ramón Rodríguez) discovering that it wasn’t Angie (Erika Christensen) who killed Lenny. Instead, she covered for Crystal, who later became a serial killer. Her lies led to more deaths despite them being child predators, and she broke the law. For this, Will arrested Angie.
Created by author Karin Slaughter along with Liz Heldens and Daniel T. Thomsen, Will Trent is inspired by Slaughter’s series of novels. The police procedural series debuted on ABC on January 3, 2023, and was renewed for a second season four months later. In April 2024, while Season 2 was still ongoing, it was renewed for a third season. In addition to Rodríguez and Christensen, Will Trent also stars Sonja Sohn, Jake McLaughlin, and Iantha Richardson.
Will Trent has made some changes to its cast ahead of the upcoming season. Gina Rodriguez has joined the cast as a series regular, reprising her character as Marion Alba. Marion is described as “a charismatic, confident Assistant District Attorney new to Atlanta” who meets Will and is “surprised” when they have to team up to investigate gang-related crimes. Additionally, Ariana Madix will guest star as herself, traveling to Atlanta for work and hiring Michael Ormewood (McLaughlin) to cover for a friend’s intervention.
As for the number of episodes Will Trent Season 3 is expected to feature, co-creator Thomsen previously shared: “Well, I think what’s going to be different on a surface level is that we have 18 episodes this season instead of 10 in Season 2. And so what I’m hoping for is that that will allow us to play on a bigger board next season.”
