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HBO Sets Premiere Date for ‘The Deuce’ Sophomore Season

thomas.umstead@futurenet.com (R. Thomas Umstead) — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:53:40 +0000

HBO's "The Deuce"

HBO will bring back drama series The Deuce for a second season this September.

The series, which chronicles the dawn of the modern pornography business in 1970s New York City, will debut its second season Sept. 9, according to HBO.

The Deuce, which stars James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal, averaged 5.6 million viewers across all platforms, including delayed viewing, during its first season, according to HBO.

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HBO Renews ‘The Deuce’

thomas.umstead@futurenet.com (R. Thomas Umstead) — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:15:00 +0000

HBO has renewed its freshman drama series The Deuce for a second season, the network said Tuesday.

The David Simon-produced series starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Franco will return for a sophomore season run in 2018. The series, which examines the legalization and rise of the porn industry in 1970s New York City, drew 2.2 million viewers including multi-platform views for its Sept. 10 premiere.

The Deuce is executive produced by Simon, George Pelecanos, Nina Kostroff Noble and James Franco.

“We are thrilled to continue our creative collaboration with master storytellers David Simon and George Pelecanos,” said HBO programming president Casey Bloys in a statement. “Their unique gift for immersing the audience in their dark and edgy worlds brings a brilliant verisimilitude unlike any other. With the remarkably talented Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Franco leading an exceptional cast, we look forward to delving deeper as this captivating story evolves.”

TCA: Maggie Gyllenhaal: ‘I Like Big Shoulder Pads’

Daniel Holloway (B&C) — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 03:15:00 +0000

In Sundance TV’s forthcoming miniseries The Honorable Woman, Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a woman-on-the-edge type of character—and she wouldn’t have it any other way.

“I like big shoulder pads, but I don’t just want to play powerful women, because I don’t buy that,” the actor said Fiday at the TCA summper press tour. “There are moments in my life when I feel very powerful and moments in my life where I really don’t.”

Greg Brenman, executive producer of The Honorable Woman, fielded questions onstage alongside miniserieswriter and director Hugo Blick and stars Gyllenhaal and Janet McTeer. Highlights from the panel included:

*Blick said he could not predict that his show, set against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, would come to air at a time when that conflict is hitting a historic peak. “It is cyclical,” Blick said of the conflict. “And it has now tragically become this hot spot yet again. It will abate, and then it will happen again. And the idea of this cycle was something that I was engaged in,” when writing the series.

* Asked to compare the number of quality roles for female actors in television to that in film, McTeer said, “Of course, you still watch movies and you see 1,700 parts for the guys and we women all have that’s slightly irritating.” She added, “That’s called British understatement. It’s really quite annoying.”

*“It’s such an interesting time in the TV industry at the moment,” Brenman said when asked about time shifting. “I guess because of serial shows, and because of distributors like Netflix and people like Sundance, who complement each other well.”