‘Jury Duty’ Renewed for Season 3 at Prime Video

Ronald Gladden and Anthony Norman may soon have some company. The two unwitting stars of Prime Video‘s “Jury Duty” 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.

“Jury Duty” centers on a civilian mark who has no idea they’re on a TV show, while everyone around them is an improv comedian. In Season 2, “Jury Duty Presents Company Retreat,” Anthony Norman was hired as a temp to assist at a corporate retreat for family-owned hot sauce company Rockin’ Grandma’s. 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.

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What he didn’t realize was that Doug, Dougie Jr., and all of the other employees were 24/7 actors — 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’ Grandma’s from being sold — a storyline that was concocted to see if he would rise to the occasion. And he did, landing $150,000 as a thanks.

Norman has since become tight with Gladden, the original “Jury Duty” 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.

Of course, planning and pulling off the “Jury Duty” conceit is a massive undertaking — and needs time. “Jury Duty” 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). “Company Retreat” just recently premiered in 2026.

“It took three years from the first one to this one, so there’s a long runway to get there,” executive producer Chris Kula (who also appeared on “Company Retreat”) told Variety‘s TV Fest audience last week. But he does have a good idea for the third edition: “I’m thinking of maybe like a fake TV show, like going to awards functions and some someone’s duped into giving heartfelt testimony for this thing that doesn’t exist.”

The show is created by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky and directed by Jake Szymanski.

At the Variety FYC panel, Kula recounted the difficulty of pulling off the show: “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 — where it all comes to a head and our hero steps up and saves the company — 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.”

Kula lauded Norman — and the show’s casting execs — for coming up with “an amazing gem of a human. We scripted the season with the hope that the hero would meet this ideal… He came in with an Aaron Sorkin-esque monologue, and when he starts appealing to the CEO, and he says, ‘father to father, I need to talk to you,’ I got goosebumps. My jaw dropped. He was just an absolute hero.”