‘Jury Duty’ Renewed at Amazon, Season 2 Already Filmed
Jury Duty will return for — and has already filmed — a second season at Amazon Prime Video, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed Thursday.
Amazon declined to comment on the news. Season one of the show aired in 2023 on Amazon’s Freevee and endeared audiences with its candid camera comedy starring an unknowing Ronald Gladden. Actors — including James Marsden (playing himself) — improved along as caricatures of fellow jurors, a judge and other courtroom personalities while Gladden went the whole stint believing the entire ruse was real.
Sources report Jury Duty‘s second season will leave the witness stand behind in favor of a corporate retreat setting. It was shot in the Agoura Hills suburb of Los Angeles.
Season one showrunner Cody Heller previously told THR she was “terrified” by the challenge of pulling off the candid camera feat. “There was something about that fear of failure that ignited something in myself,” she said. But in the end, the success came from the cast. “Ronald Gladden restored my faith in humanity,” she said.
Marsden echoed Heller’s description of high stakes when describing his own experience on set. “This is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before,” he told THR. “You get one take. If he sees a hidden camera, or someone calls somebody by the wrong name, the whole thing is upended. That was really exciting to me, just from the perspective of [wondering], ‘Can we pull this off?’”
Gladden eventually embraced the candid camera reveal, and went on to sign with Gersh, and ink his own deal with Amazon, which sees him develop and star in a variety of content. He and Marsden, along with several other of the show’s actors, remain friends.
Jury Duty was created by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, who also executive produced season one with Heller, Bernad, Schulman, Ruben Fleischer, Nicholas Hatton, Andrew Weinberg and director Jake Szymanski.
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