{"id":316485,"date":"2026-03-06T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/316485\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:58:08","slug":"the-night-agent-renewed-for-season-4-to-film-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/316485\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Night Agent’ Renewed For Season 4 To Film In Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPeter Sutherland is coming back and heading west. Netflix<\/a> has ordered a fourth season of the political action thriller starring Gabriel Basso, which will shoot in Los Angeles after two seasons in New York following the Canada-based first installment.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s been a wild ride filming The Night Agent<\/a> in five countries across three continents to this point and we\u2019re so thrilled that the adventures of Peter Sutherland will continue into Season 4,\u201d series creator, executive producer and showrunner Shawn Ryan said. \u201cOur writers, our cast and our crew stand ready to answer the call to bring our incredible fans even more twists, turns and thrills.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is unclear which five countries Ryan is referring to. The Night Agent has actually filmed in six countries so far, Canada (Season 1), U.S. (Season 2 \u2013 present), Thailand (Season 2), T\u00fcrkiye, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic (Season 3). Ryan may be counting countries outside of the U.S. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe most recent renewal comes two weeks after Season 3 was released on Feb. 19. For comparison, the Season 3 renewal came three and a half months ahead the Season 2 premiere. As Deadline reported<\/a>, Netflix brass this time wanted to see how the new season \u2014 the first without Luciane Buchanan as female lead Rose opposite Basso\u2019s Peter \u2014 debuts before making a renewal decision. That decision came within the timeframe Ryan projected (In a Jan. 26 interview, he said that<\/a> he was anticipating it coming in the \u201cnext month, month and a half.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 3\u2019s soft opening weekend raised some concern as The Night Agent took the No. 2 spot on Netflix\u2019s weekly English ranking for the week of Feb. 16 with 8.4M views and no previous seasons reentering the Top 10. That was down from 13.9M (No.1) who tuned in to Season 2 during its first week, with Season 1 at No.4 with 5M, and the roughly 21M views the series raked in for its series debut weekend. (The Night Agent Season 1 remains at No. 10 on Netflix\u2019s list of Most Popular English Show with 98.2M views in its first 91 days of release.)<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 8.4M Season 3 tally was on par with the 8.3M views Netflix\u2019s The Waterfront logged for its opening week last year en route to cancellation. <\/p>\n

\n\tNetflix brass are said to be high on the current season of The Night Agent, some considering it the best in the series so far creatively. Still, they wanted to see ratings growth after the sluggish start in order to stamp The Night Agent\u2019s renewal passport. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe show delivered some of that in Week 2 with 9.9M views and a return of both Season 1 and Season 2 to the Top 10, at No. 5 with 2.9M views and at No. 8 with 2.7M views, respectively.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat is a nice bump. However, it is worth noting that The Waterfront perked up to 11.6M views in its second week and still got canceled. <\/p>\n

\n\tBoth The Night Agent and The Waterfront come from outside studios, Sony Pictures TV and Universal TV, respectively. But The Night Agent started off as a series under Netflix\u2019s model for moderately budgeted dramas in line with the cost of network one-hours. Additionally, Sony Pictures TV in November\u00a0received a $31.6M tax credit<\/a>\u00a0to move The Night Agent from New York to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe credit comes with a six-month window to start production, which means that Season 4 should start filming by late May. <\/p>\n

\n\tThat is feasible, Ryan told Deadline last month<\/a>, revealing that in 2025 Netflix \u201cdid quietly pick up a writers room,\u201d which has been working since. \u201cWe have some scripts, we are breaking stories,\u201d he said on Jan. 26.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere are some clues Ryan provided about Season 4<\/a> at the time:<\/p>\n

After the finance arena-set Season 3, Season 4 will be set in \u201ca world that is present in Los Angeles, it\u2019s not present in New York for the most part; there\u2019s something in the Los Angeles region that exists at a much bigger level than New York.\u201d And no, it\u2019s not Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Season 4 will bring back other Season 3 characters besides Peter. <\/p>\n

Peter\u2019s new partner is \u201ca new character that we\u2019ve never met before.\u201d <\/p>\n

Breaking tradition from Seasons 2 and 3, \u201cat the moment, there is no international location planned at the beginning of Season 4.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new season will question the justification of the Night Action program.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Season 3, Night Agent Peter Sutherland (Basso) is called in to track down a young Treasury Agent who fled to Istanbul with sensitive government intel after killing his boss. This kicks off a sequence of events where Peter, working with a relentless journalist (Genesis Rodriguez), investigates a dark money network while avoiding its paid assassins.<\/p>\n

\n\tRyan and Marney Hochman executive produce for MiddKid Productions; Seth Gordon and Julia Gunn for Exhibit A; James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, Paul Neinstein and Nicole Tossou for Project X; David Beaubaire for Sunset Lane Media; Munis Rashid, Paul Bernard, Guy Ferland, and Seth Fisher.<\/p>\n

\n\tRecent Netflix productions in Los Angeles include Nobody Wants This S2, Running Point S2, The Lincoln Lawyer S4, the upcoming film Animals directed by Ben Affleck, Beef S2, and Monster S4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Sutherland is coming back and heading west. Netflix has ordered a fourth season of the political action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,1094,111,139,69,3293,92623,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-316485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-netflix","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-renewals","14":"tag-the-night-agent","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}