{"id":930852,"date":"2026-10-13T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930852\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:22:09","slug":"civics-made-easy-renewed-for-season-2-by-pbs-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930852\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Civics Made Easy&#8217; Renewed for Season 2 by PBS (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/pbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pbs_1\" data-tag=\"pbs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PBS<\/a> has renewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/civics-made-easy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_civics-made-easy_1\" data-tag=\"civics-made-easy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Civics Made Easy<\/a> for a second season, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, and it will premiere in exactly two days from now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCivics Made Easy is hosted by author Ben Sheehan (What Does the Constitution Actually Say? A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy Is Supposed to Work); season two\u2019s eight episodes will run through January 2027. The Webby Award-winning series explores the fundamentals of our government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThis new season of Civics Made Easy explores questions like, \u201cIs America really a democracy?\u201d \u201cWhat is partisan gerrymandering, and how is it legal?\u201d and \u201cHow much power does my state have?\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn each episode, Sheehan \u201cbreaks down complex topics into digestible lessons that help audiences of all ages better understand the fundamentals of U.S. government,\u201d the PBS synopsis continues. \u201cNew episodes will also explore constitutional rights, proposals for federal term and age limits, the Supreme Court\u2019s shadow docket, the extent of the separation between church and state, and who decides what kids learn in public education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCivics Made Easy, produced by Second Peninsula, premieres on Wednesday on PBS member stations, the PBS app, PBS.org and YouTube. Sheehan also writes and executive produces the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cCivics isn\u2019t confined to the classroom, it plays out around us daily,\u201d Sheehan said in a statement. \u201cFor season two, we wanted to tackle some of today\u2019s thorniest political questions. My goal has always been to make government more understandable \u2014 because the more we know how it works, the more we can ensure it works for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cCivics Made Easy has been a hit with PBS audiences, generating engagement and excitement from stations and viewers from across the nation,\u201d said Margaret Ebrahim, senior director of multiplatform -programming at PBS. \u201cWe\u2019re so proud to have Ben Sheehan as part of this special initiative, as he has a rare ability to make civics feel exciting instead of intimidating for our curious audiences of lifelong learners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSteve Goldbloom is the creative director and executive producer of Civics Made Easy; Melissa Williams and Julie Hermelin also executive produce. Ana D\u00e1vila and Summer Mastain are producers. Benita Sills is senior editor and Fred Arelaro is finishing editor. Gabi Amerth is social media manager. Executives in charge for PBS are Margaret Ebrahim, Caroline Rickert and Estefan\u00eda De Le\u00f3n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PBS has renewed Civics Made Easy for a second season, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, and it will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,319683,75,4972,348],"class_list":["post-930852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-civics-made-easy","tag-entertainment","tag-pbs","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}