Returning: Archer

The team from the International Secret Intelligence Service returns to ABC2 with Archer next week for their third season.

Although their work of espionage, reconnaissance missions, wiretapping and undercover surveillances is daunting and enigmatic, every covert operation and global crisis are actually unmitigated occasions for the ISIS staff to undermine, sabotage and betray each other for personal gains, pleasures and prosperity.

The series features the voices of H. Jon Benjamin as the highly skilled yet incredibly vain master spy ‘Sterling Archer’; Aisha Tyler as fellow agent provocateur ‘Lana Kane’; Jessica Walter as Archer’s domineering mother and the rapacious CEO of ISIS, ‘Malory Archer’; Chris Parnell as the easily intimidated comptroller of ISIS, ‘Cyril Figgis’; Judy Greer as Malory’s loquacious secretary, ‘Cheryl’; Amber Nash as the discordant director of human resources for ISIS, ‘Pam Poovey’, and George Coe as Archer’s elderly and always exploited butler, ‘Woodhouse’.

Following the murder of Archer’s wife by Bionic Barry, Archer disappears off the map. Malory is consumed with maternal worry over her missing son, and sends a man named Rip Riley to look for him. Finding Archer may not be as difficult as everyone at ISIS thinks, but getting him to willingly return is another story.

9:05pm Tuesday September 3 on ABC2.