Netflix Renews The Night Agent for Season 4

Netflix has renewed its popular action thriller series "The Night Agent" for a fourth season, the streaming service announced Friday through an interactive stunt in New York City's Times Square. Tourists who answered a ringing landline phone there received coded instructions for a brief mission, culminating in a video billboard message confirming the renewal and inviting participants to become temporary "Night Agents."

The decision comes just two weeks after the third season premiered on February 19, continuing the story of FBI agent Peter Sutherland, played by Gabriel Basso. In the latest installment, Sutherland pursues a young Treasury agent who fled to Istanbul with sensitive government intelligence after killing his boss. The investigation uncovers a dark money network linked to high levels of U.S. government, including ties to the presidency, as Sutherland evades assassins and teams up with a persistent journalist to expose buried secrets and old grudges that could destabilize the administration.

Series creator and showrunner Shawn Ryan expressed enthusiasm for the extension. "It's been a wild ride filming 'The Night Agent' in five countries across three continents to this...