Hulu has picked up a third season of comedy Casual, with a 13-episode order.
Season two started earlier this month and season three arrives in 2017.
Casual, about a newly divorced single mother living with her brother and daughter, was nominated for a 2016 Golden Globe. Zander Lehmann created the series, which is directed by Jason Reitman. Executive producers, besides Lehmann and Reitman, are Helen Estabrook and Liz Tigelaar.
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Reitman has signed a first-look deal with Hulu for all television related projects, marking Hulu’s first development deal of this kind.
New episodes air every Tuesday.
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.
