If you're enjoying True Detective's third season then we have great news for you, as there's definitely potential for a fourth run.

HBO's President of Programming Casey Bloys has revealed that he is "thrilled" with the show's third season, which stars Golden Globe-winner Mahershala Ali as police detective Wayne Hays, and he isn't ruling out working with creator Nic Pizzolatto on another season either.

"Creatively, ratings-wise, it did everything that we wanted it to do," Bloys told Deadline of the show's current run. "It’s up to 8 million viewers an episode, we were thrilled with the review, I think fans have really liked it.

"Obviously acting is superb. I was very, very, very happy with all aspects of it."

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As for whether the show could return for a fourth season, Bloys states that ultimately it's a decision that's going to be down to creator Nic Pizzolatto and whether or not he has an idea he's excited about.

"I think we are going to handle it the same way as the last one — if Nic has an idea that he is excited about, we will talk about it but not rushing into anything," he said.

"I think Nic is enjoying the current success of the show and maybe has something percolating but nothing has come to us yet."

The third season tells the story of detective Hays (Ali) as he investigates a macabre crime involving two missing children in the heart of the Ozarks, with the story playing out in three separate time periods.

And considering HBO is open to the idea of another season, it bodes well that Pizzolatto has already teased that he has a "wild" idea for another season of the anthology series.

"It's wild. It's really, really wild," he said. "Where do you even go after this [season]? But I have an idea that's kind of crazy. I think it needs to percolate for a while.

"I was looking to do another series, maybe a movie, in the meantime, but yeah. I have an idea…"

True Detective airs on HBO in the US and on Sky Atlantic in the UK.



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