Jury Duty Renewed for Season 3 at Prime Video

Someone new is about to have their life turned completely upside down — and they won’t even know it’s happening. Amazon has officially renewed Jury Duty for a third season, with Prime Video’s global head of TV Peter Friedlander making the announcement at the streamer’s upfronts presentation on Monday.

Naturally, Friedlander didn’t breathe a word about where the show might be set or who the next unsuspecting civilian will be. That’s kind of the whole point.

The docu-hoax comedy, created by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, has built its entire identity around one beautifully simple (and wildly complicated) premise: drop a real, unknowing person into a completely fabricated world staffed by 24/7 actors, and see what happens. The first season, which premiered in 2023, put Ronald Gladden through a fake civil trial where every juror — including James Marsden, playing himself — was in on the joke except him. It won a Peabody, earned four Emmy nominations including comedy series and comedy supporting actor for Marsden, and landed two Golden Globe nods.

What Happened in Season 2

Season 2, titled Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, relocated the concept to the annual offsite of a family-owned hot sauce company called Rockin’ Grandma’s. Anthony Norman was brought in as a temp worker and told a documentary crew was filming a leadership transition story — founder Doug handing things off to his slacker son, Dougie Jr. What Norman didn’t know was that every single person around him, from Doug to the intern in the corner, was a trained actor hitting scripted beats.

The season wrapped April 3, and its finale delivered a genuinely moving payoff. Norman — faced with the staged threat of Rockin’ Grandma’s being sold off to corporate interests — stood up, delivered what executive producer Chris Kula described as an “Aaron Sorkin-esque monologue,” and appealed to the CEO with the line, “father to father, I need to talk to you.” The production had scripted that moment hoping their mark would rise to it. He did. And he walked away with $150,000.

“He was just an absolute gem of a human,” Kula said at a recent Variety FYC panel. “We scripted the season with the hope that the hero would meet this ideal… My jaw dropped. He was just an absolute hero.”

The Insane Pressure of Pulling It Off

Getting to that finale moment, though, is a feat that sounds genuinely exhausting. Kula, who also appeared on-screen in Company Retreat, was candid about the daily anxiety of keeping a production this delicate from falling apart.

“Every single day on set was kind of terrifying, because you had the fear this is the day it could all end,” he said. “Somebody could misspeak, a camera could be seen. Some element could unravel all the work we’ve done. So when we got to the final day of the big finale — I woke up three hours before the call time that day, because I was just adrenalized. It was a high wire act, and we knew there was no second take. It was unlike anything I’ve ever done before, and I’m sure ever will.”

That pressure also explains the timeline. There were three years between season one and season two. “It took three years from the first one to this one, so there’s a long runway to get there,” Kula acknowledged. So don’t hold your breath for a 2027 premiere.

As for what season three might look like, Kula already has ideas percolating. “I’m thinking of maybe like a fake TV show,” he said, “like going to awards functions and someone’s duped into giving heartfelt testimony for this thing that doesn’t exist.” Whether that idea makes it to screen is another question entirely — Deadline reports that a scenario hasn’t been completely settled on, and it’s not yet clear if the full creative team from seasons one and two will be back.

What is clear: Ronald Gladden and Anthony Norman now have a little club, and somewhere out there, the next unwitting member of that club is just living their life, completely unaware of what’s coming.

Both seasons of Jury Duty are streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.