Poker Face is being circled by a new network. The Peacock mystery series, which debuted in 2023, was created by Knives Out director Rian Johnson and starred Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale, a woman with an innate ability to detect lies who solves mysteries while on the run.

Poker Face season 2, which aired on Peacock this summer, will be the last season of the series on the streamer. In November 2025, Peacock elected not to renew it for season 3, though Johnson and Lyonne shared that they are shopping the series around, with the surprise announcement that four-time Emmy winner Peter Dinklage is set to take over the role of Charlie, should season 3 go forward.

Per Deadline, HBO Chairman and CEO, HBO and Max Content Casey Bloys discussed the future of Poker Face during a press event in New York. He revealed that “we’ve had conversations” about HBO potentially picking up season 3. However, he shared that “I don’t know which way it’ll go.” Read Bloys’ full quote below:

It’s funny because we heard the original take, and when I heard that Peacock wasn’t moving forward, we were curious. We’ve had conversations, but I don’t know which way it’ll go, but I think Rian is a fantastic filmmaker, and I love the idea of Peter Dinklage, but I have nothing to report on that.

It is unclear whether it will help or hurt that Poker Face was originally pitched to HBO before being picked up by Peacock in the first place. However, now that the Natasha Lyonne TV show has made it to the air, it has proven itself as a critical darling.

In fact, both seasons of the streaming series are Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with season 1 earning a near-perfect 98% on the Tomatometer and season 2 coming close to matching it with 96%.

While switching out the lead star of this show at this critical juncture could be a decision that producers are unsure about, the fact that Dinklage is the star potentially stepping into the role could make Poker Face much more enticing to HBO. After all, Dinklage won all four of his Emmys for playing the role of Tyrion Lannister in the HBO hit Game of Thrones, in addition to earning four other nominations.

While Dinklage has appeared on multiple television shows since the end of Game of Thrones, including FX’s The Lowdown and Paramount+’s Dexter: Resurrection, he has not appeared in an HBO series since the end of the iconic fantasy show, though the franchise has continued with the prequel House of the Dragon and the upcoming spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

This fact, combined with those glowing Poker Face reviews, could potentially lead the Rian Johnson package to be hugely enticing to HBO.

Additionally, even if Poker Face was potentially cancelled because of low viewership, HBO could provide the series with a wider platform than what it enjoyed on Peacock, which has had much fewer hit series than the premium network and doesn’t enjoy an audience as broad as HBO and its streaming platform HBO Max.