Hulu Renews ‘Casual’ for Season Three

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Hulu has picked up a third season of comedy Casual, with a 13-episode order. 

Season two started earlier this month and season three arrives in 2017.

Casual, about a newly divorced single mother living with her brother and daughter, was nominated for a 2016 Golden Globe. Zander Lehmann created the series, which is directed by Jason Reitman. Executive producers, besides Lehmann and Reitman, are Helen Estabrook and Liz Tigelaar.

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Reitman has signed a first-look deal with Hulu for all television related projects, marking Hulu’s first development deal of this kind.

New episodes air every Tuesday.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.