WESTWORLD: HBO Orders Second Season Of Sci-Fi Series

HBO Renews Westworld For A Second Season

HBO Programming President Casey Bloys revealed that the network’s science fiction drama Westworld is one of three programs on the network that will receive a second season.

The show has performed consistently well since its premiere in October, averaging 11.7 million viewers during each episode. This is a feat that surpasses even those of the network’s highly successful Game of Thrones and True Detective series.

In addition, Bloys announced that Divorce and Insecure will also receive more seasons after their first ones conclude:

Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, the drama series Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin, exploring a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

Westworld kicked off its ten-episode first season Oct. 2 on HBO, debuting hour-long episodes Sundays at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT). Created for television by Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy, both of whom executive produce and write, with Nolan directing, the series is based on the 1973 film Westworld, written by Michael Crichton.

he cast for the first season of Westworld includes Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Jimmi Simpson, Rodrigo Santoro, Shannon Woodward, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Ben Barnes, Simon Quarterman, Angela Sarafyan, Luke Hemsworth and Clifton Collins, Jr.

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