Ben Stiller gives hope for ‘Severance’ Season 3 release
Ben Stiller discussed the next season for 'Severance' on the 'New Heights' podcast
Executive producer of Severance, Ben Stiller is reassuring fans that they will not have to wait another three years for the next season of the show.
Appearing on the New Heights podcast from Jason and Travis Kelce, he said, “No, the plan is not to [wait three years]. Hopefully we’ll be announcing what the plan is very soon.”
After the release of the first season in 2022, the second season ended up getting delayed due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America strikes. The new season began releasing from January 17 to excellent critic and audience reviews.
The Independent’s Annabel Nugent, while giving a five star review, wrote, “Bottling the bolt-from-the-blue brilliance for a second season is infinitely tougher, but Severance pulls it off with style, balancing its various tones as expertly and effortlessly as a waiter during a Friday night rush. Thankfully, it is still one of the best shows on TV – certainly, one worth rushing home from the office to watch.”
Addressing the delays, Stiller continued, “It took us a little bit to regroup, and the show, we shot for 186 days on Season 2. Editing takes a while, but thank goodness the audience was there when we came back. The challenge was to get people who hadn’t seen the show to watch the first season, so Apple did a really good job of getting the word out and we did as much press as we could.”
“Also, three years later, Apple TV+ is actually a different…it’s a different situation there now because they have more viewers. When we started out, we were one of the first shows,” he added.
