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Netflix has renewed ‘Stranger Things’ for a third season. A return date has not yet been determined.

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00:00Turn that brown upside down, because Netflix has renewed Stranger Things for a third season.

00:08When reached for comment, a demagorgon dog had this to say.

00:15A premiere date has not yet been set for the return of the Duffer brothers' supernatural

00:19drama set in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana. While Netflix doesn't release viewership information,

00:24measurement leader Nielsen cited an audience of 15.8 million viewers who watched the season

00:28to premiere within three days of its launch. Nielsen also found that 361,000 Netflix subscribers

00:35stream the entire nine-episode second season within 24 hours of its debut. Raise your hand if you are one of them.

00:41Stranger Things ranks as Netflix's biggest franchise. The series, which collected 18 Emmy nominations

00:46and took home five, is pulling the streaming service into a new business with a series of licensing deals

00:51for clothing, posters, toys and collectibles. Given the show's breakout success, the child stars are

00:57said to be banding together to renegotiate their contracts for upcoming seasons.

01:01In September, sources told THR that stars Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo and

01:06Kayla McLaughlin each got $30,000 per episode for the first and second seasons, with a bonus once it

01:11became clear that the show was a phenomenon. While the cast is signed for six years, talent

01:16reps say renegotiation will happen in early 2018. One question yet to be addressed, whether the show's

01:21breakout, 13-year-old Brown will negotiate separately from the other young stars. The first season

01:26arrived with immediate impact in July 2016, and Stranger Things most recently released its nine

01:31episode second season in October, days before Halloween. In the context of the show, Stranger

01:36Things 2 took place slightly less than a year after the events of the first season. Will that same

01:40formula follow suit for season three? In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the Duffers

01:44confirmed some form of time jump will occur between seasons. Even if we wanted to hop into the action

01:50faster, we couldn't, Matt Duffer previously told THR.

01:52Our kids are aging. You can't start right after season two ended. It forces you to do a time jump.

01:58But what I like is that it makes you evolve the show. It forces the show to evolve and change,

02:03because the kids are changing. It's cool, though. The audience is going to be able to watch these kids

02:07come of age every year. The closest example is Harry Potter. Watching those kids and actors grow up in

02:13front of the camera was, to me, very powerful. Set in the middle of the 1980s, Stranger Things focuses on a crew

02:18of kids, Mike, Lucas, Dustin and Will, dealing with the disappearance of Will into the Upside Down

02:23in season one. He's saved, thanks to the arrival of Eleven, a young girl with a raging, uncontrollable

02:28appetite for Eggo waffles. Oh, and telekinetic powers. Season two sees Eleven enhancing her abilities,

02:34while the threats of the Upside Down resurface and expand. Unlike the first season, season two ends in

02:39such a way that there's very little clear direction about the future of the series, exactly the way the

02:43Stranger Things creators envisioned it.

02:45Last year, we had a lot of little cliffhangers at the end of the season. We didn't want to do

02:49that again, Matt Duffer told THR. We didn't want to box ourselves in for season three. We wanted to

02:54be able to start season three on a very clean slate. To read everything you need to know about the

02:59Upside Down, full coverage of season two and more, head to THR.com slash Stranger Things. But first,

03:05head to the comments and let us know what you would like to see happen in season three.

03:08For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.