If you’ve been enjoying the Hollywood-centric comedy in the Apple TV+ subscription-exclusive series The Studio, there’s some good news to pass along! The Seth Rogen-led show, which debuted on the 2025 TV schedule in late March, has been renewed for a second season! So get ready for more shenanigans with Rogen’s Matt Remick as he runs Continental Studios with vary degrees of success. Upon hearing about The Studio Season 2 moving forward, it reminded me of when one of the executive producers told me her “favorite thing” she wrote for Kathryn Hahn to say on the show.
Last month, I had the pleasure of speaking with Frida Perez and Peter Huyck, who co-created The Studio with Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Alex Gregory. In addition to the duo explaining why Seth Rogen falls down so much on the show and why they’ve “shelved whole episodes,” Perez also discussed how she and the other writers came up with the wild dialogue that Hahn’s Maya Mason frequently spouts. In the EP’s words:
Oh, that was really fun. I remember when we landed on her thing, it was really fun to just… we're like, ‘What's she gonna say?’ And we wrote just a huge list of slang things we hear on the internet, things that we would never say out loud, but hear young people saying. We’re like, ‘She has to say all of this stuff.’ My favorite thing that I pitched was when she says ‘Marty Scorses on God.’ Because I think ‘on God’ is a really hilarious term, But yeah, I just.plucked it off the internet, where I spent way too much time.
When I previously interviewed Alex Gregory about topics like Charlize Theron’s “baller” cameo and how Seth Rogen recruited several directors to play themselves on The Studio, he tipped me off that Kathryn Hahn’s Gen Z-like lines primarily originated from Frida Perez, whom he described as “young and cool.” So naturally I had to follow up on this when the time came to speak with her, and I absolutely agree that “Marty Scorses on God” is a great pick for the most bonkers thing Maya has said on the show thus far. This line, of course, came from the The Studio’s premiere episode, when Matt Remick was recruiting Martin Scorsese direct his Jonestown passion project under the guise of a “Kool-Aid” movie he was mandated to make.
While Scorsese’s Jonestown movie will never happen (although in real life, Bill Hader is developing a Jonestown TV series), at least The Studio fans can look forward to Seth Rogen’s lead character getting into more awkward encounters with directors, actors and other Hollywood talent following Season 1’s conclusion in a couple weeks. Here’s what Rogen and Evan Goldberg had to say about the Season 2 renewal:
We're thrilled to be making a second season of ‘The Studio.’ We're looking forward to taking the lived experience of making season one and immediately putting it into season two, then repeating that loop for ten more seasons,” said creators and executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. “And, we’re excited to keep all our industry friends and colleagues guessing as to when one of their personal stories will stream on Apple TV+.
The Studio earned a lot of positive critical reception right out the gate, so I’m not surprised that Season 2 is on the way. In his own statement, Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+, said that Rogen and the rest of the creative team “have knocked it out of the park with this brilliant show.” Cherniss also said that in addition to looking forward to where Matt Remick takes Continental Studios in Season 2, he hopes “for his sake that the ‘Kool-Aid’ movie crushes at the box office.”
Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz and Chase Sui Wonders also star in The Studio, and I expect they’ll be back for Season 2 alongside Seth Rogen and Kathryn Hahn. Stay tuned to CinemaBlend for continuing coverage on the Apple TV+ series.
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