{"id":574276,"date":"2026-04-09T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574276\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:26:08","slug":"rooster-starring-steve-carell-renewed-for-season-2-by-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574276\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Rooster’ Starring Steve Carell Renewed For Season 2 By HBO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHalfway through its first-season run, HBO<\/a>\u2018s comedy Rooster<\/a>, starring Steve Carell<\/a>, has been renewed for a second. Following the fall-set first installment, Season 2 will pick up the story in the spring semester at the fictional Ludlow College.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe renewal for the show, from the Scrubs duo of Bill Lawrence<\/a> and Matt Tarses and Warner Bros. Television, extends Lawrence\u2019s streak of every half-hour comedy series created or co-created by him running for multiple seasons.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pickup is not a surprise. It comes after Rooster recently landed a $21M California tax credit for Season 2<\/a> and after the series premiere\u00a0delivered 2.4 million U.S. cross-platform viewers<\/a>\u00a0in its first three days of availability, the largest audience for an HBO comedy debut in the U.S. in almost 11 years.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlmost a month later, Rooster continues to do well, regularly placing in HBO Max\u2019s Daily Top 3. Its first four episodes are averaging 5.8M U.S. viewers, pacing as the most watched freshman HBO comedy in over a decade, the network said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s been 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, EVP, HBO Programming, Head of HBO & HBO Max Comedy Series. \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\tCreated by Lawrence and Tarses who serve as co-showrunners, Rooster is broader and softer than most of HBO\u2019s edgier, writer\/performer-driven comedy fare. Speaking with Deadline last month, Gravitt indicated<\/a> that the current tense geopolitical situation may have contributed to the show\u2019s popularity much like the pandemic launch fueled the global success of another warm, upbeat comedy co-created by Lawrence, Apple TV\u2019s Ted Lasso.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI love that it\u2019s landing at a moment where people are looking for the comfort of old shows \u2014 not even old shows, but those real TV show formats,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\tClancy Collins White, President, Creative Affairs, Warner Bros. Television, also touched upon the series\u2019 tone. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRooster is a heartfelt, endearing series, and its second-season renewal is richly deserved,\u201d she said. \u201cBill Lawrence and Matt Tarses are masters of their craft, bringing their signature heart and humor to life through an incredible cast led by Steve Carell. We\u2019re thrilled to continue this creative journey with HBO and Doozer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWith its May 2024 straight-to-series order, Rooster became WBTV\u2019s first series for HBO proper since Westworld. The studio is a main supplier to HBO Max, with a number of shows it had at the streamer, including Harry Potter and IT: Welcome To Derry, migrating to HBO. <\/p>\n

\n\tRooster is a comedy set on a college campus centering on an author\u2019s (Carell) complicated relationship with his daughter (Charly Clive).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Season 1 main cast includes also includes Danielle Deadwyler, Phil Dunster, John C. McGinley, and Lauren Tsai. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are so grateful to Warner Bros. Television and HBO for being such great partners and to Casey,\u00a0Amy\u00a0and Channing for giving us the opportunity to keep making this show with Steve and our amazing cast,\u201d Lawrence said.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0been a career highlight for both of us, but more for Matt than me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLawrence, Jeff Ingold, and Liza Katzer executive produce for Lawrence\u2019s Doozer banner alongside Tarses, Jonathan Krisel, Barbie Adler, Annie Mebane, David Stassen, Anthony King, David Hyman, and Carell. Lawrence and Tarses are showrunners. Warner Bros. Television, where both Doozer and Tarses are under overall deals, is the studio.<\/p>\n

\n\tNew episodes of the 10-episode season debut Sundays and are available to stream on HBO Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halfway through its first-season run, HBO\u2018s comedy Rooster, starring Steve Carell, has been renewed for a second. Following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[60738,88,1035,220110,73804,92],"class_list":["post-574276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bill-lawrence","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-rooster","tag-steve-carell","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}