High Potential goes to look different when it comes back for season 3 following a change behind the scenes.
Multiple outlets confirmed that Nora and Lilla Zuckerman are taking up as co-showrunners and executive producers amid their overall deal at twentieth Television, which produces High Potential.
“We’re so grateful to be working with Craig, Karey, Simran and our partners at twentieth and ABC on this exciting recent chapter of High Potential,” the duo said in an announcement on Wednesday, May 6. “The actual fact we get to collaborate with Drew, Sarah and Andrea at Goddard Textiles and the incomparable Kaitlin Olson is a dream come true.”
They continued: “We’re looking forward to climbing into the good, bustling mind of Morgan Gillory and crafting intricate mysteries worthy of her genius.”
Before High Potential, the Zuckermans were showrunners on the hit Peacock series Poker Face. In addition they wrote for shows resembling Suits, Agents of SHIELD, Prodigal Son and Fringe and are currently working on the Scream 8 script. The Zuckermans were previously attached to Hulu’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which ultimately didn’t move forward.
The duo is taking up after Todd Harthan exited the show at the top of season 2. News broke in March that Harthan departed to deal with the upcoming live-action adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s YA book series The Inheritance Cycle. The difference — titled Eragon — is cocreated with Paolini and Harthan will function coshowrunner alongside Todd Helbing.
High Potential, which premiered in September 2024, was created by Drew Goddard. The pilot was written by Goddard, who was expected to executive produce alongside Sarah Esberg, Rob Thomas, Dan Etheridge, Pierre Laugier, Anthony Lancret, Jean Nainchrik and Alethea Jones.
Thomas, meanwhile, was expected to serve because the showrunner before exiting in June 2024 — months before the series premiere. Harthan was ultimately announced as the brand new showrunner who also served as an executive producer.
The police procedural follows a high-potential mental — Morgan (Kaitlin Olson) — who teams up with the LAPD to assist solve murders. She gets paired up with Karadec (Daniel Sunjata), who’s initially skeptical about Morgan’s involvement with the Major Crimes unit but ultimately starts to depend on her.
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Season 2 picked up with the confirmation that Morgan’s ex Roman was still alive after going missing for greater than a decade. The one information Morgan — and all of Us — have is that her ex worked as an FBI informant and doesn’t trust the LAPD.
“It’s a reasonably bumpy ride. We’re going to begin unpacking some pretty intense things with Morgan, because it pertains to all things Roman. There are every kind of trials and tribulations which can be going to occur with the youngsters at home,” Harthan teased exclusively to Us Weekly in January. “It’s just going to get messy and complex — hopefully in all the perfect ways in order that the audience stays on the sting of their seats.”
He concluded: “Our job now as we get to the back half of the second season is to fill in a number of the big blanks and progress a number of the relationships. You’re going to see some intense things occur between Steve Howey’s character and Captain Wagner really starts to bloom within the back half. That causes some good soapy messes on multiple fronts. It’s just our normal MO of just attempting to mix things up and keep the audience engaged and keep them guessing.”
High Potential is currently streaming on Hulu.