Amazon MGM Studios has lately been splashing loads of money to get their palms on full management of the James Bond franchise, however 007 is just not the one spy on their books. Citadel followers have been eagerly awaiting an replace on the second season of the Richard Madden-starry present – which has spawned a number of spinoff sequence – and now they’ve one. Solely it is probably not the one they had been hoping for.
In line with a brand new report from The Hollywood Reporter, Amazon MGM has not been pleased with the best way the best way Season 2 of Citadel has been panning out, or the hovering prices the present has been racking up. Whereas filming was accomplished on the brand new season again in November 2024, with an eye fixed on a Fall 2025 launch, the brand new info means that has been pushed again to Spring 2026, however sources have claimed that no date has been set in stone.
This sort of uncertainty doesn’t bode effectively for Citadel followers, who’ve been wanting extra from the primary sequence and haven’t been solely glad by the franchise’s interconnected universe of reveals that adopted the flagship sequence’ success. Whether or not the delay is so the sequence can endure reshoots, and even rewrites, is unclear, however one factor for sure, is that as certainly one of their most expensive reveals, Amazon MGM will need to be sure that it’s ok to pay its means when it does lastly return to screens.
Amazon Bosses Had Religion in ‘Citadel,’ however Admitted It Wanted Time
The world of streaming has develop into a brutal place for TV reveals. In the event that they don’t make an instantaneous mark on the world, then they’re often canceled after a single season, and denied the prospect to essentially construct an viewers. Nonetheless, there are some streamers which have begun to understand that wielding the ax is just not at all times the reply, and typically new reveals simply want a little bit of time to seek out an viewers. That appeared to be true of Citadel after its launch in 2023.
On the time, then-Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke – who has lately departed the corporate – claimed that Citadel had been pulling in a number of the largest international audiences in Prime Video historical past. Moreover, Head of Drama Odetta Watkins added that the present had been an enormous victory. She stated:
“I feel the present was conceived to have the ability to communicate to the world and it has. Each present is just not going to hit in each place on the identical degree. However because the franchise grows, I really feel just like the numbers will develop throughout, together with domestically. You’ll begin to see the viewers reply otherwise because it goes on.”
And develop Citadel has, with spinoffs entitles Diana and Honey Bunny bringing a world taste to the franchise whereas followers awaited Season 2 of the primary sequence arriving. Now it appears that evidently Citadel’s future hangs within the steadiness. Whereas it’s extremely unlikely that Amazon will intend on scrapping the present solely, the brand new delay continues to be worrying for followers. Evidently, for now, the franchise won’t be making an look again on Prime Video till 2026, and followers are simply going to get used to the wait.