HBO’s Ballers is two episodes into its second season, but that didn’t stop the premium cable network from renewing its football comedy for a third season. The news comes from no less of a source than the series’ star himself, Dwayne Johnson.
The renewal probably shouldn’t be a surprise, as Ballers has drawn strong ratings for HBO thus far. Season one averaged 9.1 million viewers per episode across all of the network’s cable and digital platforms, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The season two premiere has drawn 5.7 million viewers thus far. Perhaps the vote of confidence coming from a series renewal will boost those numbers a bit.
Getting that $200 million copyright infringement lawsuit against Johnson and fellow executive producer Mark Wahlberg thrown out by a Los Angeles judge on Wednesday may have cleared the final obstacle.
Here is Johnson’s announcement on Instagram:
Johnson had an intriguing tidbit in that blurb there, mentioning that season two will be watched “with a different eye” now that viewers know a third season is on the way. Will some storylines seem less final than they might have if there was a possibility that Ballers wouldn’t be coming back after its second season? Are there some plot or character threads that would have been left hanging, but can now be addressed later on? Maybe Andy Garcia’s Andre Allen will return to further antagonize Spencer Strasmore.
No word yet on whether or not Johnson and fellow executive producers Stephen Levinson and Mark Wahlberg will follow Jim Weber’s advice on how to improve the show by going darker.
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