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poker faceAcclaimed series from Ryan JohnsonHas been canceled – but it may return somewhere else with a brand new lead.
Streaming service Peacock has decided not to renew Colombo-inspired murder mystery show, but Johnson will be shopping his own series in the hopes that it will be picked up by another network.
If poker face However, if there is a comeback, it will be without the lead star Natasha LyonneWho starred for two seasons as Charlie Calle, a woman who had the uncanny ability to tell when people are lying. Instead, the show will have an Emmy winner peter dinklageKnown for playing Tyrion Lannister game of Thrones,
Johnson and Lyonne said in a statement: “Since writing the season two finale, we have been considering this next step together. We love our poker face And this is the perfect way to keep it going.
“Give us a chance and we can see Charlie Cale on that open highway again.”
In the series, Leon’s human lie detector Charlie is forced to run across America and investigate a new murder every episode.
Over two seasons, the show featured several high-profile cameos, including Adrien Brody, Cynthia Erivo, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chloë Sevigny, and Nick Nolte.
poker face was widely acclaimed and had a score of 97 percent on the review aggregate site rotten tomatoes,
one in Four star review for IndependentTV critic Nick Hilton wrote: “In a way, poker face represents the perfect synthesis of Lyon’s chronology-busting masterpiece, Russian dollAnd the newly established appetite for murder mysteries conducted to the marching band rhythm of the Coen Brothers or Edgar Wright.
“Sometimes the plots wrap themselves up too easily… but the chaotic feeling poker face “Takes it forward.”
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This news comes shortly before the release of Johnson’s third Knives Out film wake up dead manIn which Daniel Craig returns as debonair detective Benoit Blanc alongside a new cast including Josh O’Connor, Mila Kunis and Glenn Close.
Johnson’s other credits include Brick (2005), looper (2012), and the 2017 Star Wars film The Last Jedi,
While Johnson served as head writer and director poker faceThe series showrunner was Tony Tost. It is unknown whether Toast will return for a third season should it be picked up by another streamer.
The Toast Show replaced Nora and Lila Zuckerman in season two, who left after the release of season one in 2023. poker face’The second season of Now aired earlier this year, with episodes available to stream in the UK on Now.