{"id":147986,"date":"2025-11-22T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/147986\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:57:08","slug":"the-penguin-season-2-gets-positive-update-from-hbo-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/147986\/","title":{"rendered":"The Penguin Season 2 Gets Positive Update From HBO Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the critical success of the first installment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a>\u2018s hit DC Universe series The Penguin has finally received a promising update about what\u2019s next for the crime drama. More than a year after wrapping up Season 1, the show currently holds an impressive Tomatometer rating of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.  <\/p>\n<p>What did HBO CEO Casey Bloys say about The Penguin Season 2?<\/p>\n<p>Per Screen Rant, HBO boss Casey Bloys has confirmed that he has already started discussing the possibility of The Penguin Season 2 with the DC Studios team. This comes after the show managed to win 9 awards out of 24 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Lead Actress for Sofia Falcone actress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/cristin-milioti\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cristin Milioti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are talking to the [DC] team about what a second season of The Penguin could look like,\u201d Bloys shared. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/the-penguin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Penguin<\/a> chronicles Cobb\u2019s rise to power in Gotham\u2019s seedy underbelly, giving fans a look into how he becomes the formidable crime kingpin he\u2019s known to be. Season 1 starred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/colin-farrell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Farrell<\/a>, Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Zegen, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Deirdre O\u2019Connell, Clancy Brown, James Madio, Scott Cohen, Francois Chau, Carmen Ejogo, David H. Holmes, and more. The series was written and executive produced by showrunner Lauren LeFranc, with The Batman director Matt Reeves also serving as an executive producer. <\/p>\n<p>While Season 2 hasn\u2019t officially received a renewal order, Farrell\u2019s Oz Cobb\/The Penguin will next be seen in Reeves\u2019 highly anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/movies\/636265-the-batman-2-colin-farrell-matt-reeves-script-masterwork\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Batman sequel<\/a>, which will debut on October 1, 2027. In a previous interview, the acclaimed actor confirmed that he had already read Reeves and Mattson Tomlin\u2019s script for the Robert Pattinson-led movie. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had so many thoughts and feelings to share with Matt about the script,\u201d Farrell said. \u201cI really do think it\u2019s a masterwork. Kind of a contemporary genre masterwork. It\u2019s so brilliant and Robert has got such a lovely journey to go on and take the audience through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/screenrant\/status\/1991540898400989575\" rel=\"nofollow\">Screen Rant<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the critical success of the first installment, HBO\u2018s hit DC Universe series The Penguin has finally received&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[29525,156,2592,111,139,69,19326,437,14857],"class_list":{"0":"post-147986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-dc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hbo","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-the-penguin","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-tv-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}