HBO Renews Breakout Comedy for Season 2

HBO has renewed its comedy Rooster for a second season. The announcement arrives while the show's first season is only halfway through its initial run.

The swift renewal did not come off as a surprise, as the pilot episode was a major success for the network. Within three days of its release, the first episode reached 2.4 million viewers in the United States. Since then, the series has averaged 5.8 million U.S. viewers per episode, making it the most-watched comedy debut for HBO in more than a decade.

Currently, five of the ten episodes have aired, with new episodes released every Sunday.

Produced by Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses, alumni of Scrubs, and helmed by Steve Carell and Danielle Deadwyler, Rooster follows novelist Greg Russo (Carell) as he navigates his relationship with his daughter, Katie, after she is abandoned by her husband, Archie, for a graduate student.

The ensemble cast includes Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso) as Archie, Charlie Clive as Katie Russo, Lauren Tsai as Sunny, Archie's new girlfriend, and John C. McGinley (Scrubs) as the president of Ludlow College, and Alan Ruck.

Rooster is produced for Warner Bros. Television. Lawrence and Tarses serve as executive producers and have overall deals with the studio. They executive produce alongside Jeff Ingold, Liza Katzer (for Lawrence's production company Doozer), Jonathan Krisel, Barbie Adler, Annie Mebane, David Stassen, Anthony King, David Hyman, and Steve Carell.

Lawrence has been working with Warner Bros. on his recent projects, including Apple TV+'s Shrinking and Ted Lasso, with the studio lending him to work on the upcoming Scrubs revival for Disney and ABC.

The season finale is set to air on May 10 on HBO and HBO Max.

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