Kids in the Hall star Dave Foley says troupe will be back soon — regardless of renewal status

The new season of The Kids in the Hall, which marks the first onscreen collaboration from the titular Canadian sketch troupe in more than a decade, was greeted warmly by fans and critics when Amazon Prime Video dropped all eight episodes earlier this month. As EW's own Kristen Baldwin wrote, the revival features "the same cast, the same indelible theme song — and the same commitment to absolute absurdity."

So does this positive reception mean the Kids will be back to crush more heads on Prime Video? Not necessarily. When EW spoke with Dave Foley earlier this week about his apocalypse-set "Doomsday DJ" sketches, the KITH member admitted that they had yet to receive the green light for another season.

"We are honestly, at this moment, waiting," he said. "It is entirely up to, I guess, whatever mathematician fuels and deciphers the algorithm over at Amazon Prime to determine whether or not we have achieved the appropriate metrics… That's how the industry works now. If the algorithm is happy, then we may be up in Toronto in the next couple of months, writing and getting ready for another eight episodes. Everything else right now is waiting on that, because we are contractually obligated to do more if they want us to. We're waiting to find out if they're going to exercise their option."

The good news? According to Foley, fans won't have to wait too long for the troupe's return, regardless of whether Prime Video commissions another season.

"In conversations with all the other Kids in the Hall, I think we're pretty determined that, regardless of whether or not we get picked up by Prime, we're going to be doing something soon," he said.

Watch the trailer for the new season of Kids in the Hall above.

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