is heading into its second season with its third showrunner at the helm. Showrunner Albert Kim, who creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, is also exiting the live-action series. Co-executive producer Christine Boylan and exec producer Jabbar Raisani — both of whom were hired by Kim — will take over as the drama’s third showrunners for the previously announced second and third seasons. Sources say Kim’s intention was to lay the foundation for season one of after stepping in for the beloved franchise’s creators. Given the long turnaround time in crafting the series —
Netflix ordered it in 2018, the creators left in late 2020 and the show didn’t debut until February 2024 — sources say Kim was ready to move on to new opportunities. Kim, whose résumé include and will remain credited as an exec producer on as he is expected to sign a development deal with Disney’s 20th Television. Kim, who will develop new projects
Disney after his Netflix pact expired, will join the Disney+ series as an exec producer alongside Jon Steinberg, Dan Shotz and Craig Silverstein, the latter of whom he worked with on The CW’s . (Reps for Disney declined to comment.) For her part, Boylan’s credits include and, more recently, and The producer and playwright is nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award as part of the team behind Peacock’s Poker Face. She’s a graduate of the WGA’s Showrunner Training Program, the AFI Directing Workshop for
Women and has written comics for Marvel, DC and more. Raisani exec produced season one and also served as a director on episodes three and four as well as a VFX supervisor. The show stars Gordon Cormier, Kiawentiio, Ian Ousley, Dallas Liu, Ken Leung, with Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Daniel Dae Kim. Exec producers include Kim, Raisani, Dan Lin and Lindsey Liberatore on behalf of Rideback and Michael Goi. Netflix’s launched to high expectations from the original anime show’s diehard audience. Critics were less than kind, with the show currently sitting at a 60 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes as audiences found the show a bit more favorable (74 percent). TV critic Angie Han said in her that the live-action remake was “a major letdown.” Netflix the show almost immediately after its debut for two additional seasons that will bring to a close with its third and final season as it follows the trajectory of the original. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day More from The
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