Atlanta: Donald Glover show to return for two seasons in 2021
The two seasons will act as 'parts one and two' of a new era for the show
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Glover’s Atlanta is returning for a third and fourth season in 2021, FX has confirmed.
FX executives John Landgraf and John Solberg announced that the long-awaited third season of Atlanta won’t air until next year. Speaking at the Television Critics Association, Solberg said that whenever Atlanta does return “it won’t be for this Emmy cycle”. He confirmed that writing for the next season is underway.
Season two of the critically acclaimed comedy-drama finished on a high note in May 2018. The finale aired a week after Glover debuted the politically charged Childish Gambino song “This is America“.
Atlanta follows Glover’s character, Earn who manages his cousin’s budding career as a rapper known as Paper Boi, played by the actor Brian Tyree Henry who recently acted alongside Joaquin Pheonix in Joker.
In 2017, Glover became the first black director to win an Emmy for directing a comedy series. Atlanta was nominated for 16 Primetime Emmy Awards, also winning Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show has also won three Golden Globe awards.
Although fans will have to wait longer than anticipated for a third season, viewers will get 10 episodes of Atlanta as opposed to the previously announced eight. The FX executives also hinted that a substantial portion of the new season will be filmed outside of America.
Landgraf said that the two new seasons will act as “parts one and two” of a new chapter in the show’s life.
He said he is enthusiastic about the show continuing beyond season four.
“As long as Donald Glover wants to make more Atlanta, I’m down for that” he said, adding: “But it’s his choice.”
Atlanta are available to watch on NOW TV in the UK
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