Comedy ‘Pen15’ Starts Season Two on Hulu

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

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, 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.