Phoebe Waller-Bridge Plans To Write Herself Into 'Killing Eve' Season 3

The creator of Killing Eve plans her return for Season 3, and this time, she's facing down Villanelle herself.

When Killing Eve arrived on BBC America in 2018, it was an instant critical darling due to the way it played with the long-running U.K. spy thriller by recasting both roles as women. It was also the second significant triumph for comedian Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who came up with the concept, wrote the scripts, and was showrunner on the first season. Her first series, Fleabag, was not as widely known, but adored by critics, who once again loved her unorthodox way of approaching well-known narrative tropes.

But though some critics (and our readers) loved Killing Eve's follow up season earlier this year, some complained that something was missing. They were right, it was Waller-Bridge. While working on Killing Eve, she came up with an idea for a second season of Fleabag, and when it was greenlit, she decided that was the project she wanted to do. Killing Eve was passed to a new female writer and showrunner, Emerald Fennell, who like Waller-Bridge had started her career as an actress and comedian. (PBS fans will know her as Nurse Patsy Mount in Call the Midwife.)

With no Fleabag Season 3 to come, Waller-Bridge could easily return to showrunning Killing Eve, but having already passed it to Fennell, she's decided to do something unorthodox yet again.

Killing Eve Season 3 will go to a new female showrunner and writer, Suzanne Heathcote, who much like Fennell and Waller-Bridge, is looking for opportunities to run things from behind the camera. Heathcote is best known for her work on AMC zombie series Fear the Walking Dead, and fans are looking forward to where she takes the new season.