Tim Robinson‘s HBO comedy The Chair Company has been renewed for a second season, the network announced in a press release Thursday morning. The news came as HBO said another comedy, I Love LA, will also be returning.
“We’re thrilled by the incredible response to The Chair Company and I Love LA debuts,” head of HBO Programming Amy Gravitt said in a statement. “Both shows confidently carry on the HBO comedy tradition, in their own singular way. We couldn’t be happier to continue collaborating with Tim, Zach, Rachel, and their exceptional teams.”
The announcement precedes the finale of the series’ first season on November 30, as the show has become HBO’s most popular new comedy series in over five years since the debut of Avenue 5, the 2020 series from Armando Iannucci, Deadline reports. The show averaged 1.4 million viewers in the U.S. in its first three days after its premiere.
Created by Robinson and Zach Kanin (Detroiters, The Characters), The Chair Company follows William Ronald Trosper, a man who, after an embarrassing incident at work, finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy surrounding a chair manufacturing company, according to an official synopsis provided by HBO. The series takes Robinson’s Trosper across a series of bizarre scenarios characteristic of the actor and writer from I Think You Should Leave and Friendship.
It is yet to be seen if the series’ second season will feature an entirely new plotline or continue the chair-related conspiracy, per Deadline.
Lake Bell (In a World, No Escape) stars alongside Robinson as Trsoper’s wife Barb, while the couple’s children are played by Sophia Lillis (All Her Fault, It) and Will Price (After The Hunt, A Complete Unknown), according to Deadline. In addition, Joseph Tudisco (A Brooklyn Love Story, 60 Miles North) stars as security guard and Trosper’s partner-in-crime Mike Santini, and Lou Diamond Phillips (Keep Quiet, Courage Under Fire) plays Jeff Levjman, the CEO of Trosper’s property development firm Fisher Robay.
Per Deadline, Robinson and Kanin executive produce The Chair Company alongside Adam McKay (Trade Secret, Don’t Look Up), Todd Schulman (Men of War, Jury Duty), Andrew DeYoung (Our Flag Means Death, 555), and Igor Srubshchik (Betty, Master of None).