Brian Cox Signs For Season 2 Of Amazon Prime Video’s ‘007: Road To A Million’

EXCLUSIVE: Brian Cox will be back as The Controller in Amazon Prime Video‘s 007: Road to a Million.

Deadline hears the Succession actor has signed up for Season 2 of the reality competition series, which will be officially announced by Amazon in the coming weeks.

Cox embraced the role of The Controller, a machiavellian puppet master who sets malevolent challenges for the contestants.

Cox has joked that he thought he was signing for a James Bond movie when he initially agreed to take on the 007: Road to a Million role.

“I thought it was the new James Bond film,” he told The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last year. After agreeing to the job, he realized that “there was no script and there was no James Bond movie.”

Although Season 2 is not yet finalized, 72 Films, the Fremantle-owned production company behind 007: Road to a Million, has been casting a new batch of contestants for some time.

Production is set to get underway this summer. Season 1 was an ambitious shoot that spanned multiple countries and saw contestants complete death-defying challenges.

By Amazon’s own metrics, the game show rated No1 in 27 countries on Prime Video, but it failed to break into the top 50 highest-rated shows in the UK, according to independent ratings data.

Amazon has enjoyed ratings success in the UK this year. Season 3 of Clarkson’s Farm became Amazon’s highest-rated show to date, with the opening episode scoring 5.1M viewers. Fallout also performed well, premiering with 3.1M.