Interestingly, unlike 2017’s Psych: The Movie, the follow-up, as it turns out, will not premiere on the show’s old home of USA Network, with the reveal that it will instead debut on NBCU’s streaming service, Peacock. The move occurs after USA gave the initial greenlight for a second two-hour Psych TV movie back in February of 2019.
Here is everything else we know about the second Psych movie.
In addition to Roday, Hill and Omundson, it should come as no surprise that the TV movie sequel is also confirmed to welcome the returns of characters Juliet O’Hara (Maggie Lawson), Henry Spencer (Corbin Bernsen) and Karen Vick (Kirsten Nelson).
Upon the movie’s greenlight in 2019, USA Network (its former destination,) released rather clear plot synopsis. As it reads:
While the reunion project that would become the 2017 TV movie, Psych: The Movie, was a special moment and a tribute to the still-ravenous fandom behind the original 2006-2014 series, the initial chances for a sequel movie weren’t as auspicious, due to the schedules of the main stars. Indeed, Roday is a main cast member on the thriving ABC drama, A Million Little Things, and Hill joined the cast of USA’s Suits in late-2017. Additionally, Lawson joined Fox’s Lethal Weapon for what would become its final season, playing the ex-wife/would-be-love-interest of Seann William Scott’s Wesley Cole (Clayne Crawford’s replacement on the show).
Yet, all the dilatory issues experienced by the sequel project in its early conception were dwarfed by a tragic setback for Timothy Omundson, who is recovering from an April 2017 stroke, which left his mobility limited, and kept him out of the public eye for some time.
However, despite the sequel project’s seemingly snake-bit status, the cast and crew of Psych have managed to find a way make things come together. Indeed, with the logline revealing the ambush of Carlton Lassiter, we see that they even found a clever plot-relevant way to work with Omundson’s current condition.
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