The third season of Max’s Emmy-award-winning dramedy series Hacks is on the horizon! According to a Warner Bros. Discovery media release, the season is set to land on the streamer on Thursday, May 2, with two new episodes. After that, the nine-episode season will drop two episodes each Thursday until its season finale on May 30.
The official logline for Hack’s third season, as per the media release, states, “A year after parting, Deborah Vance (played by Jean Smart (Babylon, Garden State)) is riding high off the success of her standup special while Ava (played by Hannah Einbinder (How to Be Broke, North Hollywood)) pursues new opportunities back in Los Angeles.”
The media release states that alongside Critics Choice, Emmy and SAG nominee Einbinder and SAG, Emmy and Critics Choice winner Smart, several stars will be returning for season three, such as Megan Stalter (The Megan Stalter Show, Queer as Folk), Christopher McDonald (Thelma & Louise, Happy Gilmore), Carl Clemons-Hopkins (Candyman, Chicago P.D.), Paul W. Downs (Broad City, Time Traveling Bong), Kaitlin Olsen (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Heat), Rose Abdoo (My Best Friend’s Wedding, Gilmore Girls), Lorenza Izzo (Knock Knock, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood) and Mark Indelicato (Ugly Betty, White Bird in a Blizzard).
As reported earlier, the series also unveiled its guest stars for season three: Tony Goldwyn (Ghost, The Mechanic), Helen Hunt (As Good as it Gets, Mad About You), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), George Wallace (Batman Forever, Little Nicky), Dan Bucatinsky (The Baker and the Beauty, Second Act) and Christina Hendricks (Ginger & Rosa, Bad Santa 2).
Season three of Hacks was announced in June of 2022 after its second two concluded, but production was put on hold due to the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes.
Hacks was created and is showrun by Emmy winners Jen Statsky (The Good Place, Parks and Recreation), Lucia Aniello (Rough Night, The Baby-Sitters Club) and Downs, with Aniello and Downs executive producing the series under their banner, Paulilu. Statsky comes from First Thought Productions. Additional executive producers include David Miner (30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) from 3 Arts Entertainment, Emmy winner Michael Schur (The Office, The Good Place) from Fremulon and Morgan Sackett (The Tiny Chef Show, Primo).
Universal Television, a subset of Universal Studio Group, produces Hacks.