Comedy ‘Pen15’ Starts Season Two on Hulu

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Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle play goofy 13-year-olds

Anna Kone (Anna Konkle) and Maya Ishii-Peters (Maya Erskine), shown.
(Image credit: (Photo by: Lara Solanki/Hulu))

Comedy Pen15 begins season two on Hulu Sept. 18. Seven episodes go live that day, and seven more appear in 2021. 

Pen15 is created, written and executive produced by Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle and Sam Zvibleman. Konkle and Erskine play versions of themselves as 13-year-old outcasts in middle school in the year 2000. 

The other executive producers are Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Becky Sloviter of The Lonely Island, Marc Provissiero and Brooke Pobjoy from Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment, and Debbie Liebling.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.