{"id":790031,"date":"2026-05-12T01:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/790031\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T01:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:53:20","slug":"jury-duty-renewed-for-season-3-at-prime-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/790031\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Jury Duty’ Renewed for Season 3 at Prime Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRonald Gladden and Anthony Norman may soon have some company. The two unwitting stars of Prime Video<\/a>\u2018s \u201cJury Duty<\/a>\u201d franchise will now get to watch while someone else experiences what they went through, as the streamer has ordered a third season of the ambitious docu-hoax comedy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJury Duty\u201d centers on a civilian mark who has no idea they\u2019re on a TV show, while everyone around them is an improv comedian. In Season 2, \u201cJury Duty Presents Company Retreat,\u201d Anthony Norman was hired as a temp to assist at a corporate retreat for family-owned hot sauce company Rockin\u2019 Grandma\u2019s. He was told that a documentary crew was following the business to document the leadership transition from owner Doug to his slacker son, Dougie Jr.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat he didn\u2019t realize was that Doug, Dougie Jr., and all of the other employees were 24\/7 actors \u2014 playing along a loose script and hitting benchmarks that Norman assumed was just crazy real life moments. In the final episode, Norman somehow stood up and saved Rockin\u2019 Grandma\u2019s from being sold \u2014 a storyline that was concocted to see if he would rise to the occasion. And he did, landing $150,000 as a thanks.<\/p>\n

\n\tNorman has since become tight with Gladden, the original \u201cJury Duty\u201d mark who thought he had volunteered to serve on a jury, which was sequestered as all hell broke loose. He similarly came out unscathed, but with kudos from the cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf course, planning and pulling off the \u201cJury Duty\u201d conceit is a massive undertaking \u2014 and needs time. \u201cJury Duty\u201d premiered in 2023, ultimately winning a Peabody and landing Emmy noms including comedy series and comedy supporting actor (for James Marsden, who played himself as a fellow juror in the original edition). \u201cCompany Retreat\u201d just recently premiered in 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt took three years from the first one to this one, so there\u2019s a long runway to get there,\u201d executive producer Chris Kula (who also appeared on \u201cCompany Retreat\u201d) told Variety\u2018s TV Fest audience last week. But he does have a good idea for the third edition: \u201cI\u2019m thinking of maybe like a fake TV show, like going to awards functions and some someone\u2019s duped into giving heartfelt testimony for this thing that doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show is created by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky and directed by Jake Szymanski. <\/p>\n

\n\tAt the Variety FYC panel, Kula recounted the difficulty of pulling off the show: \u201cEvery single day on set was kind of terrifying, because you had the fear this is the day it could all end,\u201d he said. \u201cSomebody could misspeak, a camera could be seen. Some element could unravel all the work we\u2019ve done. So when we got to the final day of the big finale \u2014 where it all comes to a head and our hero steps up and saves the company \u2014 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\u2019ve ever done before, and I\u2019m sure ever will.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKula lauded Norman \u2014 and the show\u2019s casting execs \u2014 for coming up with \u201can amazing gem of a human. We scripted the season with the hope that the hero would meet this ideal\u2026 He came in with an Aaron Sorkin-esque monologue, and when he starts appealing to the CEO, and he says, \u2018father to father, I need to talk to you,\u2019 I got goosebumps. My jaw dropped. He was just an absolute hero.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronald Gladden and Anthony Norman may soon have some company. The two unwitting stars of Prime Video\u2018s \u201cJury…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":790032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,156421,282608,8266,173,67,132,101014,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-790031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jury-duty","10":"tag-jury-duty-presents-company-retreat","11":"tag-prime-video","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-upfronts","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116559112759844509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}