'True Detective' season 2 currently in the works as creator Nic Pizzolatto & HBO sign an overall two-year deal for new episodes

HBO's new 8-episode series True Detective got off to a surprisingly successful start with its premiere and continues to do well as season one progresses. Star Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are getting plenty of praise for their work on the series and so has series writer and creator Nic Pizzolatto. In fact, HBO has just signed Pizzolatto on for a two-year writing deal, ensuring that season two of True Detective will come along in the near future.

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Deadline reports:

HBO has inked a new two-year overall deal with Pizzolatto, who is working on a second season of True Detective. I hear he is currently preparing a draft to present to HBO executives who are expected to proceed with a Season 2 given the performance of the first installment whose premiere was HBO's most watched series debut in more than three years and has garnered 7.7 million viewers to date on various platforms.

Before this deal went down, Pizzolatto spoke about more seasons at the True Detective panel at the Television Critics Association.

"I tried to make the format as broad for my tastes as possible in the sense that this is almost the True Detective version of a buddy‑cop movie hunting for a serial killer," he said. "And there could be a season that's much more of a widespread conspiracy thriller, a season that's a small‑town murder mystery, a season where nobody is murdered and it's a master criminal versus a rogue detective or something. Even the title, True Detective, is meant to be, of course, purposefully somewhat generic - the word 'true' can also mean honorable and authentic and things like that. So as long as there is some crime in there, I think the series format can approach it."