via press release:
HBO RENEWS COMEDY SERIES GIRLS AND VEEP FOR SECOND SEASONS
GIRLS SECOND SEASON RENEWAL
HBO Entertainment
Second-season commitment is for ten episodes.
Gross audience to date: 3.8 million viewers.
LOG LINE:
Hannah, Marnie, Jessa and Shoshanna are trying to figure life out. They’ve been living in New York for a couple of years, but they’re still not sure what they want – from boys, from each other, from themselves. And things aren’t getting any clearer. Created by and starring Lena Dunham (“Tiny Furniture”), GIRLS takes a comic look at the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of girls in their early 20s.
FIRST SEASON CREDITS
CREATED BY: Lena Dunham
EXECUTIVE
PRODUCERS: Lena Dunham, Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner
CO-EXECUTIVE
PRODUCERS: Bruce Eric Kaplan and Ilene S. Landress
CAST: Hannah: Lena Dunham
Marnie: Allison Williams
Jessa: Jemima Kirke
Shoshanna: Zosia Mamet
Adam: Adam Driver
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VEEP SECOND SEASON RENEWAL
HBO Entertainment
Second-season commitment is for ten episodes.
Gross audience to date: 3.7 million viewers.
LOG LINE:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Emmy® winner for “Seinfeld” and “The New Adventures of Old Christine”) stars as Selina Meyer, who becomes vice president, only to discover the job is nothing like she expected, but everything she was warned about. The comedy series was created by Armando Iannucci (Oscar®nominee for co-writing “In the Loop”).
FIRST SEASON CREDITS
CREATED BY: Armando Iannucci
EXECUTIVE
PRODUCERS: Armando Iannucci, Christopher Godsick and Frank Rich
CO-EXECUTIVE
PRODUCERS: Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche
PRODUCERS: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Stephanie Laing
CONSULTING
PRODUCERS: Roger Drew, Sean Gray, Ian Martin and William Smith
CAST: Selina Meyer: Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Sue: Sufe Bradshaw
Amy: Anna Chlumsky
Gary: Tony Hale
Dan: Reid Scott
Jonah: TimothyC. Simons
Mike: Matt Walsh
Nice! I’m enjoying both of them so far.
I wish we would hear a decision about Curb your Enthusiasm soon.
good to hear. both are good shows.
Yeah why no news on Curb? Must be bad sign.
@John A: At the Summer TCA, Michael Lombardo said that if Larry wants to come back, they will be happy to have a ninth season.
Steven, Curb is entirely down to whether or not Larry David feels he has enough ideas for another season, that’s the hold-up and why the wait between seasons is so long. Season 5 was the first to work as a “final season” or sorts and it’s continued on that way ever since.
Remember that this is subject to change if horses die during production.
“Yeah why no news on Curb? Must be bad sign.”
The announcement that these two shows were renewed for season two is unrelated to any other show’s prospects on HBO.
Like clockwork, they renew their rookie shows for a season 2 after a couple episodes of season one have aired almost without exception, it’s their standard operating procedure.
The surprise would have been if they had *not* renewed them about now.
I loved the veep pilot, saw it on UTube, since i don’t have HBO, hopefully season 2 of Veep will coincide with curb next season, cuz Ill defiantly pay for HBO to see that.
That’s so weird, I was just thinking “wow I bet if I go on TBTN.com there will be a renewal for Veep up. And whadaya know? It’s there lol
Still its taking a long time fol LD and HBO to make a proper decision. Its what almost a year since season 8 of curb aired.
They have only had 2 or 3 episodes
How can they renew it so soon
Girls sucks
And Veep Gets mOre total viewers in millions
I miss luck
Too bad they murdered all those horses so tgey cancelled
HORSE Murderers
Jk!
Girls is an embarrassment to a once-great network.
Both shows are great – awesome news even though it was expected.
I think that HBO’s decision to renew Girls is an investment in its future. The HBO executives must know that the show is crap and it has been harshly reviewed by media critics. Yet when it is all said and done, they don’t want to tick off Judd Apatow who is a big deal in Hollywood. They want him to bring his future projects to HBO so they showed him that they won’t quickly give up on his first projects.
Girls has received glowing reviews by critics. It has a score of 87 on Metacritic.
SarahL, what are you talking about Girls have been receiving critical acclaim.
http://www.metacritic.com/tv/girls
We need Curb back…cmon LD!!
It must the critics that I have been reading then. They have not been flattering. Regardless, the show was renewed so all involved should be happy.
HBO’s renewals are bad aka Luck…..
Showtime is now better by far;;;
Loved SFU,the Wire but now what a mess