“This Is Us” creator Dan Fogelman and star Sterling K. Brown‘s twisty new drama “Paradise” has been renewed for a second season at Hulu.
Variety has learned production is set to begin on Season 2 this spring.
Produced by Disney’s 20th Television, the political thriller is set in the serene community of Paradise inhabited by some of the world’s most prominent individuals who — spoiler alert — are among the 25,000 residents living in a bunker following an apocalyptic event. The tranquility of the city is jeopardized when the murder of President Cal Bradford (James Marsden) occurs and his head Secret Service agent Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown) is tasked with discovering who killed him and why.
There are currently two episodes left in the show’s eight-episode first-season run. Following the Season 1 finale dropping March 4 on Hulu, “Paradise” will air its entire eight-episode first season ABC (owned by Hulu parent company Disney) beginning April 7 at 10 p.m. ET.
The show previously aired its series premiere episode on ABC on Jan. 29 and FX on Feb. 1, just after it launched its first three episodes on Hulu Jan. 28 and following a surprise release of its first episode alone on Hulu Jan. 26.
“Paradise” premiered to 7 million views in its first week airing across Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally. Per Disney, preliminary data from Nielsen projects the show will land on Nielsen’s streaming top 10 originals chart for the week of Jan 27 – Feb 2.
Along with Brown and Marsden, “Paradise” stars Julianne Nicholson, Sarah Shahi, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Aliyah Mastin and Percy Daggs IV.
The series is executive produced by Fogelman, Brown, John Requa, Glenn Ficarra, John Hoberg, Jess Rosenthal and Steve Beers.
