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All rise for this Jury Duty update.
The Amazon Prime Video series was renewed for a second season, multiple outlets reported Feb. 20. But the latest installment won't see the inside of a courtroom.
While the first season followed an unknowing Ronald Gladden as he served on an increasingly dysfunctional jury of his peers starring James Marsden and Mekki Leeper, the second will instead take place at a corporate retreat setting, per the reports.
After all, with the show earning nominations at the 2023 Golden Globes, Emmys, Critics Choice Awards and more, any future installments would require a brand-new environment.
"Obviously, it would have to be a whole different universe," showrunner Cody Heller told Variety in April 2023. "You couldn't just do jury duty again because then people would be like, 'Wait a second.' But I do think that it's possible. I do think there's a million different worlds that this kind of thing could exist in."
E! News has reached out to Amazon for comment and has not heard back.
As for how Ronald, who was the only non-actor on the set, felt about the experience?
"The best way I can describe it is I got Truman Show-ed in real life," he explained to Today.com at the time. "That's such a crazy thing to say."
Although the 32-year-old was surprised to learn the outcome of his month on jury duty, he revealed that some eyebrow-raising moments made him suspicious.
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"They essentially do a photo shoot with a guard who's being fired and they're calling everybody up (in a deleted scene)," he recalled. "I turned around to James. I was like, 'I'm on reality TV right now. This cannot be happening.' That happened multiple times throughout the entire process."
That was the production team's cue to settle any concerns.
"Anytime that I would seriously start to question that or I would raise concerns, that's when they would just pull everything back," he continued. "They were like, 'OK, we're doing literally nothing for the rest of the day.' Boring court talk (and) legal jargon. Nothing exciting is happening."
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So, there was a lot of pressure on the cast to be chaotic, but not too much. James—who played an overdramatized version of himself as an entitled, egotistic A-List celebrity—described the experience as "a live theater, high wire act."
"You get one take," he shared with The Hollywood Reporter in June 2023. "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?'"
As we await more details on season two of Jury Duty, read on to see the fate of your favorite TV shows.
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Disney/Ser Baffo
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Sonja Flemming/CBS
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CBS
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Daniel Asher Smith/Paramount+
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Sergei Bachlakov/CBS
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Sonja Flemming/CBS
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CBS
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Trae Patton/NBC
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Warner Bros. Discovery
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Warner Bros. Discovery
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Warrick Page/Max
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Pari Dukovic/FX
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Paramount Network
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Drew Hermann/FOX
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Fabio Lovino/HBO
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LARA SOLANKI/NETFLIX
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Danny Ventrella/NBC
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