Overview
- Rooster, which HBO renewed Thursday, will return with a spring semester storyline at Ludlow College.
- HBO says the first four episodes averaged 5.8 million U.S. viewers, pacing as the network’s top new comedy in over ten years.
- Season 1 continues on Sundays at 10 p.m., with the finale set for May 10 on HBO and HBO Max.
- Deadline reported the production received a $21 million California tax credit for Season 2, a filming incentive not detailed in HBO’s announcement.
- Created by Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses, the series stars Steve Carell as a novelist who takes a writer-in-residence role at a New England college to stay close to his daughter.