Acorn TV Bringing Back 'Harry Wild' For Season 3 & Maybe 'Whitstable Pearl'

The holidays were a busy time, between people burning up use-or-lose vacation days, holidays with families, and many holiday specials on television. With the end of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, it was also a busy time for the entertainment business, as shows that had been paused finally got to put the pedal to the metal on production, and announcements that had been sitting in file folders finally got emailed out. Some of those were super headliners, like the long-awaited return of Wolf Hall on PBS, or ones fans had been impatiently demanding, like the third and final season of Good Omens. But in between, Acorn TV also slipped out a couple, including a Season 3 confirmation for the mysteries Harry Wild.

The Harry Wild announcement wasn't a big surprise when it came, as it was an ill-kept secret the show had filmed two seasons back to back when Acorn TV initially renewed it. The show, which premiered in April 2022, returned for a second season after 18 months away, debuting new episodes starting in October 2023. It had taken Acorn TV several months to renew the series after Season 1's debut (the official announcement wasn't until August 2022), but the streaming service showed a firmer commitment this time since the episodes were already finished, promising to bring back Jane Seymour as the titular detective and Rohan Nedd as her unlikely sidekick Fergus within days of the season finale.

Meanwhile, there are conflicting reports about Whitstable Pearl, the Kerry Godliman-led mystery series, which ran on Acorn TV in 2021 and 2022. AMC Networks, which owns Acorn TV, has not put out a press release on a renewal; however, there are multiple sites claiming Season 3 is a go. Most of the time, we would ignore those as wrong or clickbait if it weren't for Production Weekly, which as of January 2, 2024, does have Whitstable Pearl Season 3 as entering pre-production as of this week and gearing up for filming. Whether or not that a glitch remains to be seen, but since Harry Wild's entire third season was filmed and in the can before Acorn TV even acknowledged it was renewed, it's worth keeping an eye on.

Here’s the (very detailed) Season 3 synopsis for Harry Wild:

Season three picks up where season two left off with Fergus, guided by Harry, planning to contest Paula’s custody claim to Liberty. But it is not plain sailing, and there are some surprises in store along the way. The agency is still as busy as ever, and Harry and Fergus have to find a way to balance work and life. This time out, they’re hired to prove the lead singer of Ireland’s hottest boy band didn’t kill himself, find out who decapitated a woman in a busy restaurant and served her head on a platter, discover who murdered a despotic director on the set of Ireland’s leading daytime soap opera and work out how a mystery writer managed to shoot himself in a locked panic room without a gun.

Closer to home, a good friend of Harry’s calls on her for help when her estranged husband turns up dead in her fishpond, and Harry and Fergus, along with Charlie, Orla, and Lola, are in the midst of the action when a grieving father forces them to solve his daughter’s case. Elsewhere, love is in the air when Glenn decides the time has come to pop the question to his long-time girlfriend, the light-fingered Petra. While love doesn’t run so smoothly for Fergus and Lola this time out, Harry meets a charming fellow private detective and finds herself falling for him even though she’s not sure she can trust him and finds him utterly infuriating.

Star and executive producer Seymour and Nedd will once again be joined by Kevin Ryan (Guilt) as Harry’s son and senior police detective; Amy Huberman (Finding Joy) as Harry’s daughter-in-law; as well as Samantha Mumba (The Time Machine), Paul Tylak (Kin), and Rose O’Neill.

Harry Wild Season 3 will debut in 2024. Whitstable Pearl Season 3 may yet do the same.