Will There Be A Lucky Man Season 4?

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The Lucky Man series, a Sky original production by Carnival Films and Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment, lasted three seasons taking the ‘lucky’ Harry Clayton around the world solving crimes, avoiding death and trying to keep up with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. While it was an overwhelming success on Sky 1, there’s still no sign yet of a fourth season.

Lucky Man, played by James Nesbitt, revolves around DI Harry Clayton from the London Murder Squad, who also happens to be a gambler approaching the bottom of the well. After he meets a lady with a bracelet offering the power to control luck, he realises that this power comes at a high price.

No news is bad news when it’s about a new series
For fans of the show, it seems more than just luck might be needed for a fourth series to be made. James Nesbitt himself has been silent on the subject since promoting Season 3 last July. POW! Entertainment has been tight-lipped; there has been no movement on the @luckyman Twitter page since last November and there has been no news from Production company Carnival Films.

So has Lucky Man’s luck finally run out on Sky? It seems so, there are currently no plans to bring back DI Harry Clayton in the near future.

 

Lucky Man heading to the US?

However, after Season 3 premiered it was purchased by US horror-platform Shudder, an AMC owned network, which allowed it to be watched even more widely and expose it to a new US audience. “Stan Lee’s Lucky Man is an ingenious supernatural twist on the crime thriller,” said Shudder.

And while it is currently watched in over 140 countries around the world, it appears the appetite isn’t there for another series and it hasn’t seen calls to make a US version either.

Bringing a new take to the casino world

There’s no doubt that James Nesbitt can be both a caustic and divisive actor, equally likeable for his raw emotion and dislikable for his gritty abrasiveness. But that’s exactly what was needed for a character that was both a hard-nosed detective as well as an avid gambler.

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The reality of playing in a casino is very much that luck cannot be controlled. Sure it can be ridden for a while, but its laws are still grounded in both probability and mathematics. Unlike Harry, however, most people play casino games for the thrill and enjoyment of luck in action, not for any superstitious, destiny-altering allocation of good and bad fortune.

In fact, anyone can experience the results of their own lucky strategies when they play live casino games online like roulette and blackjack. Far from the murky underworld glam of the crime thriller genre, modern online casinos are incredible, brightly lit places with a dizzying amount and variety of games available. Harry certainly wasn’t playing live blackjack in HD with real dealers from the comfort of his own home in the first episode of Season 1. If he had, perhaps he wouldn’t have been framed for casino owner Freddie Lau’s murder and the whole series would have looked a lot different.

Lucky Man was Stan Lee’s final legacy

The key question of course is that without Stan Lee, will there be a drive for Season 4 to be made? Lee’s death was a shock to comic fans around the world, but his legacy has been nothing short of earth-moving.

As a Stan Lee concept, developed from his answer to fan’s questions on what his own ‘super power’ would be, this creation feels a lot different to the usual comic book capers. It also gave Stan Lee one final chance to make a big cameo appearing as himself in a number of episodes.

With the sad end to Stan Lee’s amazing life last November and the relatively tight lipped approach of the production companies and the main actor himself, it leaves fans of the show pondering the role of fate at the roulette table of TV commissioning.