According to TV Line, season four of True Detective, entitled True Detective: Night Country, has been delayed by HBO until January of next year. The fourth season of the crime anthology series was originally set to premiere this year.
The teaser trailer, which was released on April 12 of this year, said that the season was “coming this year”. Now, the HBO official website says the season will be coming in 2024.
True Detective: Night Country stars Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs, Taxi Driver) and Kali Reis (Catch the Fair One, Black Flies) as a pair of Alaskan detectives who are on the case of the disappearance of eight men at a local arctic research station. According to TV Line, the official description of the season says that in order to solve the case, the detectives “will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.”
Along with Foster and Reis, the season will also feature Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve, Enola Holmes), Aka Niviâna (True Detective, Borgen), John Hawkes (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martha Marcy May Marlene), Joel D. Montgrand (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Birth of the Dragon), Finn Bennett (Domina, The Nevers), Anna Lambe (Trickster, Three Pines), Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who, Come Home), and Isabella Star Lablanc (Long Slow Exhale, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) .
Issa López (Road to Fame, Tigers Are Not Afraid) serves as showrunner, writer, and director. It is executive produced by Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, Aftersun) and Nic Pizzolatto (Blade, Galveston).
True Detective first debuted on HBO on January 12, 2014. Season two aired on June 21, 2015 and season three aired on January 13, 2019.