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HBO Renews Steve Carell’s Rooster for Season 2

Strong early viewership made the freshman series HBO’s most-watched new comedy in more than a decade.

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.