HBO Renews Stoner Comedy ‘High Maintenance’

HBO has renewed High Maintenance, the offbeat comedy about a trio of marijuana delivery types, for a second season. Ben Sinclair stars as The Guy; he and Katja Blichfeld created the series and write and direct every episode. Russell Gregory too is an executive producer.

“The response to the new episodes exceeded all of our expectations,” said Casey Bloys, president of HBO programming. “Ben and Katja are brilliant, unconventional storytellers and we’re excited to see what they dream up for us in our second season.”

High Maintenance kicked off its six-episode first season Sept. 16. Janky Clown Productions produces the series.

The show debuted as a web series late in 2012.

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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.