CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
TV News: HBO Renews ‘Luck’ With Dustin Hoffman For Second Season
CHICAGO – That was quick. Two days after it premiered on HBO to rave reviews, the network has renewed David Milch and Michael Mann’s “Luck” with Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte for a second season.
Michael Lombardo, President of HBO Programming, made the announcement via press release, revealing that the first episode notched an incredible 3.3 million viewers. The new season will be ten episodes (up from nine in season one) and will start airing in January 2013.
Lombardo said, “We couldn’t be more thrilled with the critical response to this beautiful piece of work and we are very excited about where David and Michael plan to take these incredible characters.”
Season one stars of “Luck” include Hoffman, Nolte, Dennis Farina, John Ortiz, Richard Kind, Kevin Dunn, Ian Hart, Ritchie Coster, Jason Gedrick, Kerry Condon, Gary Stevens, Tom Payne, and Jill Hennessy. It is not yet revealed who will return for season two, given that might serve as spoiler for season one, but one can expect most of the regulars to return.
By BRIAN TALLERICO |