Netflix has hired not one, but two writers to replace Beau Willimon as showrunner for its award-winning series House of Cards.
The streaming service announced on Feb. 26 that writers Melissa James Gibson and Frank Pugliese will oversee the Media Rights Capital-produced series. The two writers joined the show during its third season.
Gibson’s credits include four episodes of The Americans and the screenplay for the 2013 Paul Rudd indie All Is Bright. Her work on The Americans earned her a Writers Guild of America award nomination.
Pugliese was among the House of Cards producers nominated for the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy in 2015 and was also a writer on Borgia, Copper and Law & Order.
“I welcome Frank and Melissa in their new roles on House of Cards and look forward to collaborating with them and our creative team on Season Five,” star and executive producer Kevin Spacey said in a statement.
The fourth season of the political drama, which also stars Robin Wright, will debut on March 4 and run 13 episodes, as all previous seasons have. Netflix announced in January that the show would receive a fifth season, although Willimon is leaving.
House of Cards is based on the BBC mini-series of the same name and stars Spacey as the ambitious politician Frank Underwood.