Prime Video’s Countdown might return for a season 2 — however will Eric Dane reprise his function amid his ALS battle?
The present, which premiered in June 2025, follows an LAPD detective (performed by Jensen Ackles) who’s recruited for a covert process power of undercover brokers from numerous legislation enforcement businesses after a Division of Homeland Safety officer is killed in plain sight. The group should observe down the assassin — however there’s a bigger conspiracy at work that they should uncover whereas racing to guard Los Angeles.
Along with Ackles and Dane, Countdown additionally stars Jessica Camacho, Violett Beane, Uli Latukefu and Elliot Knight. It turned one in all Dane’s latest initiatives within the wake of his ALS analysis.
“I’ve been identified with ALS,” Dane mentioned in a press release in April 2025. “I’m grateful to have my loving household by my facet as we navigate this subsequent chapter. I really feel lucky that I’m able to proceed working and am trying ahead to returning to set of Euphoria subsequent week. I kindly ask that you simply give my household and I privateness throughout this time.”
After Countdown premiered, Dane mentioned how his neurologist, who’s a number one ALS researcher, has given him hope about slowing the development of the illness.
“I’d have thought I’d have been the cover underneath the sheets type of individual, however that’s not been the case,” Dane instructed Further about Dr. Advantage Cudkowicz in July 2025. “My angle and spirit has been fairly buoyant. I’m simply type of driving it. Not day-after-day has been nice however the web is, I’ve a reasonably good life.”
Prime Video has but to resume Countdown for a second season. Because the forged awaits an replace, Ackles and different Countdown stars have expressed curiosity in returning — and confirmed their help for Dane amid his well being battle.
“Clearly, he’s coping with what he’s coping with. I’m checking in on him fairly regularly, letting him know that if there’s something he wants from me, I’ll be there,” Ackles instructed Males’s Well being in July 2025. “He’s very appreciative, however he’s already surrounded himself with the appropriate folks, and that’s necessary once you’re going by means of one thing like that.”
Maintain scrolling for every thing the forged and crew teased about season 2 amid Dane’s ALS battle:
Conserving Eric Concerned
Creator Derek Haas mentioned plans for a possible second season.
“My thought is I’ll take any Eric Dane that I can get,” Haas instructed Parade in July 2025. “I completely adore him, and I am keen on the character. If he says, ‘I’m up for X, I’ll make X occur.’ I really like him and it’s going to be as much as him. The ball’s going to be in Eric’s court docket, and I’ll take something that he desires [to do].”
Not Ruling It Out
One month later, Haas mentioned he wasn’t certain whether or not Countdown would return, telling Collider, “Happily, I solely have to fret about making exhibits and never how the tremendous high-ups make their scheduling selections. They need to juggle a ton of methods and relationships and knowledge and expertise and generally old school risk-taking … they’re good folks … I keep out of it!”
He continued, “I mentioned this earlier than with [my show] Chicago Fireplace means again when. I used to be like, ‘So long as folks maintain displaying up, we’ll maintain making it.’ Now did I believe that might go for 14 years? I had no thought. So I’ll say the identical factor about this: So long as folks maintain watching and digging it, then we’ll maintain making it.”
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Holding Out Hope
Ackles instructed Males’s Well being in July 2025 that he’s “completely pushing” to return again.
“I had among the best occasions I’ve ever had engaged on a set whereas we had been on this present,” he shared earlier than praising Dane’s work on the present. “Eric’s a complete professional. He’s a TV icon. In our first assembly, I caught out my hand and he gave me a hug as an alternative. From that second, I assumed, ‘This has an opportunity to be good.’ I wished to earn his respect. He was the large canine on the set, and I wasn’t attempting to out-alpha-dog him. There was room for each of us.”
