Oscar winner Mahershala Ali will star in the third series of True Detective.
The actor, who won a supporting gong at the Academy Awards earlier this year for his role in Moonlight, confirmed the news on Instagram.
He posted a still from the first series of the anthology show, which starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson and captioned it: “Season 3 @hbo.”
Casey Bloys, president of programming at HBO, told the Television Critics Association he had read five finished scripts for the new series from creator Nic Pizzolatto, Deadline reported.
He said: “They are terrific… I was very impressed and excited. We are talking to directors, and when we have a director we want to hire, it will be a go.”
The first series of the show was a critical hit but the second, starring Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn and Rachel McAdams, drew a far more mixed reaction.
Bloys told critics more time would be given to write scripts this time around.
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