Apple Renews Seth Rogen's The Studio for a Second Season

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Apple’s staying in the Seth Rogen business. They’ve renewed the Apple TV+ sitcom The Studio, which Rogen co-created, writes, directs, and executive produces, for a second season. The Hollywood satire, which plays a bit like a less cynical version of Altman’s The Player remade for current Hollywood, is still airing its first season, with the eighth episode scheduled to premiere tomorrow. Rogen plays the new top executive of a major Hollywood studio struggling to balance art and commerce, heading up a pretty damn amazing cast—Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz, Catherine O’Hara, and Chase Sui Wonders are fellow regulars, while Bryan Cranston is a recurring guest star as the fictional Hollywood studio’s CEO, and an ongoing stream of major stars cameo as themselves throughout. It’s not as biting as a lot of entertainment industry parodies get, but it’s definitely cringeworthy, and feels a bit like Curb Your Enthusiasm with Rogen in the Larry David role and an even greater focus on showbiz.

Rogen and his fellow creator and executive producer Evan Goldberg (his longtime creative partner) express their excitement over the second season in Apple’s press release “We’re thrilled to be making a second season of The Studio,” they say. “We’re looking forward to taking the lived experience of making season one and immediately putting it into season two, then repeating that loop for 10 more seasons. And, we’re excited to keep all our industry friends and colleagues guessing as to when one of their personal stories will stream on Apple TV+.”

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The first season continues tomorrow with the release of the eighth episode, “The Golden Globes,” which guest stars Zoë Kravitz, Quinta Brunson, Adam Scott, Jean Smart, Aaron Sorkin, Zack Snyder, Netflix head Ted Sarandos, and Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs—the creators of Hacks. And after that The Studio‘s first season has only two episodes left to answer the season-long question: can Rogen’s team produce a movie based on Kool-Aid that’s both a box office hit and creatively respectable?

In addition to Rogen and Goldberg, The Studio‘s creators include Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory, as well as Frida Perez. Huyck, Gregory and Perez have also written multiple episodes, as have Rogen and Goldberg.

You can catch the first seven episodes of The Studio on Apple TV+ right now, with the final three episodes of Season One debuting over the next two weeks. And if you’re more into pictures than words, you can watch this ridiculously short video announcing the renewal, which is basically just an excerpt from one scene that somebody seems to have added a renewal announcement to with iMovie.

Apple Renews Seth Rogen’s The Studio for a Second Season