[h=1]HBO Sets Westworld Season 2 for Spring 2018 Premiere[/h]
HBO has now confirmed that
Westworld season 2 will premiere next spring. When the show arrived last fall, it gave HBO something that the network had been looking for over many years: a buzzed-about genre hit to match
Game of Thrones. Since
Thrones first premiered, various HBO shows have come and gone without becoming the network’s next big hit (see, for example, the period-music drama
Vinyl). The hour-long, sci-fi/western hybrid that is
Westworld finally bucked that trend and quickly earned a season 2 renewal. It even earned some Emmy nominations, including for Outstanding Drama, as the only HBO show in the category.
A remake of the 1973 film
Westworld, which was written and directed by Michael Crichton, the HBO TV series hales from executive producers Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy and J.J. Abrams.
Westworld season 1 told a compelling story about a robot-driven Western theme park, with a strong cast led by Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Thandie Newton, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright and Tessa Thompson. A new trailer for season 2 debuted last week at San Diego Comic-Con, and now we know more about when we will be seeing more
Westworld.
The second season of
Westworld, which is currently in production, will air in the spring of 2018 – as confirmed by a PR overview of the premiere dates for all of the current HBO/Cinemax TV series.
Westworld aired its first season in the fall of 2016 but since it wasn’t on this fall’s schedule, it was soon made clear that we wouldn’t be seeing any new episodes until next year.
The
Westworld season 2 Comic-Con trailer hinted at some dramatic developments (and lots of bloodshed) to come, in the episodes ahead. Following the surprise revelations at the end of Season 1, it looks like we’re heading for even more open conflict between the hosts and the guests of the eponymous park. Also, most of the cast appears to be back (sans Hopkins), and there’s a tiger, too.
Westworld’s spring scheduling is significant for HBO because it puts the series in the schedule spot that was held for years by
Game of Thrones. The premium network’s flagship drama had aired all of its seasons, with the exception of the current one, in the March/April window, and the placing of
Westworld there indicates that it’s the heir apparent as HBO’s major dramatic show. Whether
Game of Thrones will return in the
summer of 2018 for its final episodes, or sometime later, remains unclear.
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Westworld season 2 premieres Spring 2018.[/h]Source: HBO