Netflix Renews ‘Santa Clarita Diet’

Netflix has renewed the Drew Barrymore seriesSanta Clarita Diet. The horror-comedy is about the Hammond couple, played by Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant, a pair of realtors in Los Angeles with fairly routine lives until Barrymore’s Sheila goes zombie, with a taste for human flesh. 

The show premiered Feb. 3.

Other cast includes Liv Hewson as the Hammond daughter, Abby, and Skyler Gisondo as Eric Bemis, the Hammonds’ neighbor.  

Production on the new season starts this summer. 

The series comes from showrunner Victor Fresco.

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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.