Kenny Powers is heading back to the big leagues. Eastbound & Down, the HBO comedy series starring Danny McBride, is returning for a second season, the network announced Wednesday. New episodes are scheduled to debut in 2010.
The six-episode comedy, executive produced in part by Will Farrell, received critical praise. The series tells the story of a star Major League pitcher, Powers, whose self-destructiveness drives him out of baseball and back to his hometown where he becomes a middle school Phys Ed teacher. The final episode leaves off with Powers landing another big-league offer.
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HBO’s Eastbound & Down renewed for second season
Posted on 08 April 2009 by Robert Seidman
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You’re f*cking out!
This is awesome news! I love this show, but why must we wait so long…2010, seriously?!
“I play real sports….not trying to be the best at exercising.” – Kenny Powers
“It’s important, one time I was invited to come to a social gathering, I was paid a handsome amount of money, and I brought a shotgun and a bottle of tanqueray and showed those people the best ******* time they’ve ever seen. A humongous part about being a celebrity is cashing in on it, making ******** of money, having expensive luxurious things buying expensive things, that way in case one day you’re not famous, you can still be rich as hell and be better than everyone around you.”
East Bound and Down and Trailer Park Boys(repeats on DirecTV) are the two best comedies of 2009 in my opinion. I’m glad HBO didn’t screw up and cancel it. The entire cast is excellent. Can’t wait for 2010. Powers Out!
I watched the first half of the series. I just can’t stand that mullet, so i didn’t watch it anymore and I found at times that I was forced to laugh more than I really wanted to…
Did the ratings pick up in the second half of the season then? Because I remember the premiere ratings were like .68 million viewers. HBO usually doesn’t pick up shows under 1 million viewers
In Treatment pulled in the 600,000s for its second season premiere, and that’s up from it’s first season average, so they’ve been picking up shows with <1mil viewers.
EB&D is so dumb silly, by the 2nd episode I watch via 0n-demand I love it. I am glad to see it get renewed.