{"id":421091,"date":"2026-02-12T03:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421091\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T03:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:50:13","slug":"apple-has-big-plans-for-severance-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421091\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Has Big Plans For “Severance” Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Apple TV<\/p>\n

The first two seasons of Apple TV\u2019s flagship drama series \u201cSeverance\u201d were produced by production company Fifth Season who owns the IP\u2026 or at least did.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> reports that in a deal finalised late last year, Apple has now acquired the IP and all rights to the Emmy-winning show from Fifth Season in a deal said to be worth just under $70 million.<\/p>\n

Fifth Season will remain as an executive producer, but the show will now be produced internally at Apple rather than through that external agency. The series, produced for as much as $20 million per episode, famously had difficulties in production with Fifth Season having to shoulder the financial burdens of the show. <\/p>\n

This arrangement will alleviate that and guarantee Apple has a longer-term view of the series, which has already been renewed for a third season. The trade now adds that \u201ca fourth season is a lock and factored into Apple Studios\u2019 plans for the show\u201d, with the show\u2019s creators now targeting four seasons overall, and Apple is said to be fully on board.<\/p>\n

What about a fifth? At present, there are no such plans, but the creators are reportedly open to the idea of doing more with the \u201cSeverance\u201d universe (ie, prequels, spin-offs, etc.). Filming on the third season begins this Summer.<\/p>\n

A similar arrangement to this happened with AMC Studios and Apple over \u201cSilo\u201d, though several of Apple\u2019s biggest hits remain incoming from outside studios, including \u201cTed Lasso,\u201d \u201cPluribus\u201d, and \u201cThe Studio\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple TV The first two seasons of Apple TV\u2019s flagship drama series \u201cSeverance\u201d were produced by production company…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[94966,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-421091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-tv","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}