ABC has renewed its drama series Will Trent for a third season. According to Variety, the police procedural, based on the Karin Slaughter’s Will Trent novels, delivered its highest-rated episode ever with Ep. 5, with just over 9 million multi-platform viewers over seven days.

Will Trent stars Ramón Rodríguez as the title character: “the top agent at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation who suffers from dyslexia and spent his childhood in the foster care system, giving him unique insight into his cases”.

The series also stars Sonja Sohn as Amanda Wagner, Erika Christensen as Angie Polaski, Iantha Richardson as Faith Mitchell, and Jake McLaughlin as Michael Ormewood.

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