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Adam Holmes

The Night Agent’s Showrunner Didn’t Write Any Season 3 Episodes, But His Two Reasons Why Make A Lot Of Sense

Gabriel Basso pointing his gun forward as he walks through a house in The Night Agent Season 3.

If you have a Netflix subscription and are looking for something to enjoy from the action genre, you’re in luck. The Night Agent Season 3 premieres on the 2026 TV schedule in a couple weeks, reuniting us with Gabriel Basso’s Peter Sutherland a little over a year after Season 2 left him in a precarious position. As with the previous two seasons, creator Shawn Ryan served as the showrunner for this latest batch of episodes. Unlike those previous seasons, however, Ryan didn’t write any of The Night Agent Season 3’s episodes, though he gave two reasons why this didn’t happen.

Previously, Ryan wrote the first two episodes of The Night Agent’s first season solo and the third episode with Munis Rashid, then wrote the Season 2 premiere. Regarding his lack of writing credits on Season 3, he told Deadline that this was due to both his schedule and wanting to look out for the other members of the show’s writing staff, explaining:

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