Designated Survivor is an American political thriller drama television series that aired on ABC for two seasons. Kiefer Sutherland stars as Thomas Kirkman, an American academic named as the designated survivor for the State of the Union address. The project skipped the pilot stage and was ordered straight to series on December 14, 2015, followed by a formal announcement on May 6, 2016. The first episode premiered on September 21, 2016, to an audience of over 10 million viewers. On May 11, 2018, ABC canceled the series after two seasons due to a high turnover of showrunners and declining ratings. In September 2018, Netflix and Entertainment One announced they had reached a deal to pick up the series for a third season of 10 episodes. The third season premiered
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Designated Survivor is an American political thriller drama television series created by David Guggenheim that aired on ABC for two seasons. Kiefer Sutherland stars as Thomas Kirkman, an American academic named as the designated survivor for the State of the Union address. The project skipped the pilot stage and was ordered straight to series on December 14, 2015, followed by a formal announcement on May 6, 2016. The first episode premiered on September 21, 2016, to an audience of over 10 million viewers. On May 11, 2018, ABC canceled the series after two seasons due to a high turnover of showrunners and declining ratings. In September 2018, Netflix and Entertainment One announced they had reached a deal to pick up the series for a third season of 10 episodes. The third season premiered on Netflix on June 7, 2019. In July 2019, the series was cancelled by Netflix due to complications with the actors’ contracts. However, Netflix will continue to stream all three seasons on their platform while Netflix applied a TV-MA rating on the show’s third and final season. It is also the governing team of Homeland, which also has a component of investigating the conspiracy behind the attack on the Capitol Building, and House of Cards, which has a part of governing the nation at this critical time. The series is executive produced by Simon Kinberg, Sutherland, Suzan Bymel, Aditya Sood, and Nick Pepper.
Kal Penn, who served as the associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs from 2009 to 2011, works as a consultant for the series in addition to his portraying Seth Wright. For the third season, ABC Studios not involved, with eOne being the sole production company. For the second season, writer Keith Eisner serves as the showrunner. The first two seasons were produced by ABC Studios, The Mark Gordon Company, and eOne, with filming in Toronto, Ontario. On April 24, 2019, it was announced that theThird season was set to premiere on Netflix in June 2019. Neal Baer will serve as the series showrunner, the fifth person to do so. On July 24, 2013, ABC announced the series would not be renewed for a fourth season, stating that the season made for a satisfying final season, saying the season would be a “satisfying final season for all of us” It has also been described as more than one genre, drawing inspiration from other thriller-dramas, such as West Wing and House Of Cards, with a West Wing component of a governing team governing our nation and a House House Cards component of governing. It was announced in February 2016 that Amy B. Harris would be stepping down due to creative differences, and that Jon Harmon Feldman was in talks to replace her. In December 2016, Jeff Melvoin was hired as showrunners, replacing the departing Feldman.
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