Severance Gets Green Light for Third Season on Apple TV+

<p>On the heels of the second season of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Severance” breaking records as the most-watched series on Apple TV&plus;&comma; the hit thriller has been renewed for a third season&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The series hails from executive producer and director Ben Stiller and stars Adam Scott&comma; Britt Lower&comma; Tramell Tillman&comma; Zach Cherry&comma; Jen Tullock&comma; Michael Chernus&comma; Dichen Lachman&comma; John Turturro&comma; Christopher Walken&comma; and Patricia Arquette&period; Since its widely celebrated debut&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Severance” has been consistently hailed as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;one of the best TV shows of the past decade&comma;” a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;cultural phenomenon” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the best thing on TV&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Making &OpenCurlyQuote;Severance’ has been one of the most creatively exciting experiences I’ve ever been a part of&comma;” said executive producer and director Ben Stiller&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;While I have no memory of this&comma; I’m told making season three will be equally enjoyable&comma; though any recollection of these future events will be forever and irrevocably wiped from my memory as well&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Stiller has enjoyed a long career as an actor in numerous comedy films before becoming a director of Severance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I couldn’t be more excited to get back to work with Ben&comma; Dan&comma; the incredible cast and crew&comma; Apple and the whole &OpenCurlyQuote;Severance’ team&comma;” said star and executive producer Adam Scott&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Oh hey also — not a huge deal — but if you see my innie&comma; please don’t mention any of this to him&period; Thanks&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The idea of getting to make more &OpenCurlyQuote;Severance’ with the greatest cast and crew on Earth is more thrilling to me than all the world’s finger traps combined&comma;” said creator&comma; writer and executive producer Dan Erickson&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I can’t wait to continue spreading woe&comma; frolic&comma; dread and malice with these truly incredible people&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What Ben&comma; Dan&comma; Adam and the talented cast and crew behind &OpenCurlyQuote;Severance’ have brought to the screen is undeniable magic&comma;” said Matt Cherniss&comma; head of programming for Apple TV&plus;&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re so proud to be the home for this brilliant series and look forward to audiences experiencing what’s in store for season three&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Severance&comma;” Mark Scout &lpar;Scott&rpar; leads a team at Lumon Industries&comma; whose employees have undergone a severance procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives&period; This daring experiment in &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;work-life balance” is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work … and of himself&period; In season two&comma; Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier&comma; leading them further down a path of woe&period; Season two welcomes new series regulars Sarah Bock and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Severance” is executive produced by Stiller&comma; who also directs five episodes this season in addition to directors Uta Briesewitz&comma; Sam Donovan and Jessica Lee Gagné&period; The series is written&comma; created and executive produced by Erickson&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Severance” season two is also executive produced by John Lesher&comma; Jackie Cohn&comma; Mark Friedman&comma; Beau Willimon&comma; Jordan Tappis&comma; Donovan&comma; Caroline Baron&comma; Richard Schwartz and Nicholas Weinstock&period; In addition to starring&comma; Scott and Arquette serve as executive producers&period; Fifth Season is the studio&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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