It’s a real good news/bad news situation for fans of Poker Face — the bad news being that Peacock has canceled the Columbo-inspired mystery series starring Natasha Lyonne after two seasons. The good news is that creator Rian Johnson has a wild plan for keeping the show alive: Replace Lyonne with Peter Dinklage as the series’s “human lie detector” for not just Season 3, but Season 4 too.
According to Deadline, the Knives Out director is shopping a rebooted version of the show to other networks for a two-season commitment, with the Emmy-winning Game of Thrones star taking over the role of Charlie Cale.
In a statement to Deadline, Johnson and Lyonne (who would remain with the show as an executive producer) said “We’ve been germinating this next move together since writing the Season 2 finale. We love our Poker Face and this is the perfect way to keep it rolling. Give us a beat and we may just see Charlie Cale again down that open highway.”
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Recasting a major lead character like this has happened plenty of times in television history, though this feels like the only potential scenario that would ever lead to Dinklage replacing Lyonne in a role. (That said, imagining Dinklage as Ben Grimm’s love interest in the next Fantastic Four movie is an amusing thought.)
No new home for Poker Face has been determined, but with Dinklage as the new star, interest feels like a certainty. For more, check out where the first two seasons of Poker Face landed on Consequence’s list of the best TV procedurals of all time.