{"id":390183,"date":"2026-04-09T17:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390183\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:13:13","slug":"rooster-renewed-for-season-2-at-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390183\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rooster\u2019 Renewed for Season 2 at HBO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRooster<\/a> will continue to crow for another season.<\/p>\n

\n\tHBO<\/a> has renewed the comedy, starring Steve Carell<\/a> and created by Bill Lawrence<\/a> and Matt Tarses<\/a>, for a second season. The pickup comes halfway through the show\u2019s 10-episode first season, which centers on the relationship between an author (Carell) and his college professor daughter (Charly Clive). <\/p>\n

\n\tRooster has performed well for HBO and HBO Max so far, averaging 5.8 million cross-platform viewers per episode since its March 8 premiere. The Warner Bros. TV series is on pace to be HBO\u2019s most watched first-year comedy in more than a decade. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0been heartening to feel the audience embrace Rooster, as we did when we first saw Steve, Bill and Matt bring this character to life,\u201d said Amy Gravitt, executive vp HBO Programming and head of comedy series for HBO and HBO Max. \u201cAlong with our partners at WBTV and Doozer, we\u2019re looking forward to seeing what Ludlow\u2019s spring semester has in store for this incredible comedy ensemble.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdded Lawrence, \u201cWe are so grateful to Warner Bros. Television and HBO for being such great partners and to Casey [Bloys],\u00a0Amy\u00a0and Channing [Dungey] for giving us the opportunity to keep making this show with Steve and our amazing cast.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0been a career highlight for both of us, but more for Matt than me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRooster follows Carell\u2019s character Greg Russo, an author of pulpy, popular novels whose lead character is named Rooster. He comes to the college where his daughter, Katie (Clive), teaches and is in the midst of a personal crisis and agrees to stay on as a guest lecturer in exchange for Katie being able to remain in her job after she accidentally burns down her cheating husband\u2019s (Phil Dunster) house. <\/p>\n

\n\tDanielle Deadwyler, John C. McGinley and Lauren Tsai also star, and Annie Mumolo, Robby Hoffman, Rory Scovel, Alan Ruck and Connie Britton have also appeared in the series.<\/p>\n

\n\tCarell told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> before the series premiere that he was on board after reading the scrpt for Rooster. \u201cIt was one of the best comedy pilots I\u2019ve read \u2014 period,\u201d he said. \u201cPilots are the hardest to write. You\u2019re creating a world, you\u2019re introducing it to an audience and you have to do it quickly, efficiently, without feeling like it\u2019s all backstory \u2014 and be funny at the same time.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRooster is a heartfelt, endearing series, and its second season renewal is richly deserved,\u201d said Clancy Collins White, president creative affairs at WBTV. \u201cBill Lawrence and Matt\u00a0Tarses\u00a0are masters of their craft, bringing their signature heart and humor to life through an incredible cast led by Steve Carell.\u00a0We\u2019re\u00a0thrilled to continue this creative journey with HBO and Doozer.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLawrence and Tarses, who both have overall deals at Warner Bros. TV, executive produce Rooster with Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer of Lawrence\u2019s Doozer Productions, Jonathan Krisel, Barbie Adler, Annie Mebane, David Stassen, Anthony King,\u00a0David Hyman and Carell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rooster will continue to crow for another season. HBO has renewed the comedy, starring Steve Carell and created…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[147398,93,3284,61,60,173079,149438,820,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-390183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bill-lawrence","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hbo","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-matt-tarses","14":"tag-rooster","15":"tag-steve-carell","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}