The Night Agent has been renewed for a fourth season, which will be filmed in Los Angeles.
Netflix announced the news with a video of a New York tourist “answering” a ringing phone in the middle of Times Square. Once they successfully completed their mission, a giant digital sign read, “The Night Agent is back for Season 4.”
“The Night Agent,” starring Gabriel Basso and based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, follows FBI agent Peter Sutherland as he must protect the United States from molesters in the upper echelons of the federal government.
“It’s been a wild journey filming The Night Agent in five countries on three continents, and we’re thrilled that Peter Sutherland’s adventures will continue into season four,” said creator, executive producer and showrunner Sean Ryan. “Our writers, cast and crew are ready to answer the call to bring even more twists and thrills to our amazing fans.”
“The Night Agent” Season 3 aired in February and picked up after the explosive events of Season 2. According to the synopsis, “Peter the Night Agent Sutherland is called in to track down a young Treasury official who has fled to Istanbul with secret government information after murdering his boss. This begins a chain of events in which Peter investigates a black-finance network while avoiding paid assassins, while colliding with a tenacious journalist. They work together to uncover buried secrets and old information that threatens to bring the government to its knees and kill them both in the process. ”
The series is also executive produced by Marnie Hochman of MiddKid Productions and Seth Gordon and Julia Gunn of Exhibition A. Project X by James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, Paul Neinstein, and Nicole Tosu. David Beaubert and Sunset Lane Media, Munis Rashid, Paul Bernard, Guy Ferland, Seth Fisher. The studio is Sony Pictures Television.
The production would be a boon for Los Angeles, which has struggled to encourage film and television projects to be filmed in the city. In a press release, Netflix touted other recent productions in LA, including “Nobody Wants This,” “Running Point,” “The Lincoln Lawyer” and “Beef.”
