It will be handled by the creator of the fourth season of the show.
The anthology series True Detective has been renewed for a fifth season, HBO reports. The creative team for the new season will be led by Issa Lopez, who worked on the fourth season of the show.
As noted in a statement from HBO, the finale of the fourth season of True Detective was watched by more than 12.7 million viewers. This is an absolute record for the series: previous seasons were not so popular.
As before, Lopez will serve as showrunner, writer, director and executive producer on the True Detective sequel. HBO representatives did not specify whether the fifth season will be connected to the fourth.
Apparently, screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto, who created the first three seasons of True Detective, will not be involved in working on the fifth season.
There is no word on when the True Detective sequel might be released.
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