Seth Rogen’s Hollywood satire The Studio renewed for season two

Seth Rogen’s riotous comedy The Studio has been renewed for a second season.

The series depicts the over-the-top shenanigans that go behind the scenes of a fictional Hollywood studio, centred on Rogen’s character who has just been elevated to run the joint.

With a vibe not dissimilar to Veep, Curb Your Enthusiasm and the 1992 movie The Player, the show has been critically acclaimed for exploiting the near-existential crisis within the entertainment industry as it attempts to stay culturally relevant, artistically ambitious and commercially successful.

Rogen co-created the show with his longtime creative partner Evan Goldberg as well as Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory and Frida Perez.

It stars Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Hahn and Chase Sui Wonders and also features a cavalcade of real-life celebrities playing themselves including Martin Scorsese, Greta Lee, Adam Scott, Ron Howard, Charlize Theron, Steve Buscemi, Anthony Mackie, Zoe Kravitz, Dave Franco, Olivia Wilde and Zac Efron.

Rogen said of the renewal, “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+.”

Rogen and his writers have said they’ve drawn from their own experiences in the industry to create the characters and scenarios in the show.

On an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Rogen even name-checked a real-life executive that he specifically cribbed from.

The line Rogen’s character, Matt, says, “I got into this job because I love movies, and now my job is to ruin them”, was paraphrased from Steve Asbell, who is now the president of 20th Century Studios.

He told Colbert, “Me and my partner Evan were in a meeting early in our career, we were rewriting a movie, and the executive said exactly that. He was giving us notes.

“We wanted to make it very R-rated and edgy, and he was telling us we couldn’t, and even though he thought it was funny, he hung his head and said exactly that, ‘I got into this because I love movies and now my job is to ruin them’.”

Rogen also revealed he had been “yelled at three times” in the week before the show’s release by industry insiders convinced the actor and filmmaker had depicted thinly veiled versions of them in The Studio.

The Studio is streaming on Apple TV+