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EXCLUSIVE: Fox is staying successful nan cozy crime abstraction pinch a Season 3 renewal for Murder successful a Small Town. In nan caller 10-episode installment, returning leads Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk will beryllium joined by Peter Gallagher (The O.C., Grace and Frankie) who has been tapped arsenic a bid regular.
While Murder In a Small Town has been dormant aft wrapping its 2nd play successful early December, its renewal for different constricted tally had been expected arsenic nan enigma play has emerged arsenic a reliable inferior subordinate for Fox, a sturdy performer astatine a very appealing value point.
Season 2 of Murder In a Small Town improved connected Season 1’s 7-day multiplatform assemblage by +11%, and saw bid highs successful some 7-day full multiplatform and streaming pinch coagulated showing successful Hulu and a uncommon year-to-year linear viewership increase.
Additionally, nan Canadian-made series, produced by Sepia Films successful relation pinch Fox Entertainment and Future Shack Entertainment, is made nether a lower-cost accumulation model, falling nether Fox’s cost-effective international contented strategy.
Based connected nan nine-book bid by L.R. Wright, Murder In a Small Town follows Karl Alberg (Sutherland), who moves to a quiet, coastal municipality to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city constabulary activity and starts a narration pinch nan section librarian Cassandra (Kreuk).
In a season-long arc, Gallagher will play Rod Finlayson, a charismatic, uber-independent, tin yet unreliable figure, whose presence astatine nan Gibsons’ marina connected his beloved vessel sets up a series of upheavals that Alberg and Cassandra will person to grapple with.
Gallagher’s casting is portion of a strategy Fox has employed connected 2 of its dramas pinch a lighter, optimistic reside by bringing a large sanction each play arsenic a caller bid regular pinch a one-year woody to support viewers’ liking by adding a acquainted look and caller storylines.
Murder In a Small Town did it pinch Marcia Gay Harden successful Season 2; Doc has done it pinch Felicity Huffman successful Season 2 and Blair Underwood successful nan upcoming 3rd season.
“We emotion bringing this cozy and delightful enigma to Fox fans, and we’re thrilled Murder successful a Small Town has continued to resonate pinch our audience,” said Brooke Bowman, EVP of Drama Programming & Development, Fox Television Network. “We look guardant to continuing our collaboration pinch Sepia Films and Future Shack connected Season 3, alongside our exceptional formed led by Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk and soon to see nan incomparable talent of Peter Gallagher arsenic their newest adversary.”
Murder successful a Small Town is executive produced by Ian Weir, Amanda Tapping, Morris Ruskin and Sharon Wisnia (Mojo Global Arts), Tina Pehme and Kim Roberts (Sepia Films) and Jeff Wachtel and Jared Berenholz (Future Shack). Nick Orchard of Soapbox Productions, which primitively optioned nan book series, besides serves arsenic shaper connected nan series.
On Fox’s 2026-27 schedule, Murder In a Small Town joins precocious renewed dramas Doc, Best Medicine and Memory of a Killer, returning drama Animal Control arsenic good arsenic nan network’s animated contingent.
Gallagher’s characteristic credits see American Beauty and Short Cuts for which he shared a SAG Award and Gloden Globe Award, respectively. His tv activity includes Grace and Frankie, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Grey’s Anatomy, Law & Order SVU, Togetherness, Covert Affairs, New Girl and The OC. He is repped by Gersh.
