Prime Video's 'Citadel' First Spinoff to be Titled 'Citadel: Diana'

Citadel, Amazon's first major global series for flagship streaming service Prime Video, was not the critical hit the parent company hoped for when it debuted at the end of April, landing a 54% splat from critics. (Our own Rory Doherty called the show an afterthought to the more significant corporate motives.) However, the "parent show," as everyone keeps insisting on calling it, was already renewed for a second season two weeks before the premiere, and the "localized" spinoff series aimed at emerging streaming markets like India and Mexico were already in production, so there was always going to be more where that came from.

The series started by playing it safe, set in Italy, and starring Matilda De Angelis, an Italian actor familiar to American and U.K. audiences from her turns in Leonardo, The Undoing, and The Law According to Lidia Poët. The series was produced by Prominent Italian studio Cattleya, the Italian arm of the U.K.'s ITV Studios – and has a proven track record of hits like Gomorrah. While the shows aimed at the most valuable emerging markets are still in production, Amazon got the Italian one into post-production fast enough to release a first-look photo of De Angelis alongside Citadel's finale premiere on Friday, May 26, 2023.

Titled Citadel: Diana, De Angelis plays the title character, who, one assumes, will also come out of her sleeper mode and start spycraft in her home country.