TBS renews Chad and announces premiere dates for Miracle Workers, new Tiffany Haddish show
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Nasim Pedrad’s on-screen journey as a 14-year-old boy in Chad has only just begun. TBS has renewed the comedy for a second season just as the first one is set to wrap up with the finale on May 25. Pedrad created, wrote, and stars as the titular teenager in this cringe-worthy but surprisingly earnest coming-of-age show. It also stars Saba Homayoon, Paul Chahidi, Jake Ryan, Ella Mika, and Alexa Loo.
At a press conference call ahead of the Warner Media upfront, The A.V. Club asked Brett Weitz, the general manager of TBS, TNT, truTV, about the renewal and he said the decision required very little deliberation and was the easiest season two pickup for him in a long time. “Nasim and her team are in the writers room right now building out the episodes. We had an incredible conversation about the direction it will take. We’ll be scheduling it for the summer of 2022,” Weitz says.
Premiere dates were announced for new seasons of TNT drama Animal Kingdom and TBS’s comedy anthology Miracle Workers. The former’s fifth season will launch on July 11 and deal with the aftermath of Smurf’s (Ellen Barkin) death. Season five’s cast includes Finn Cole, Shawn Hatosy, and Jake Weary.
Miracle Workers: The Oregon Trail, starring Steve Buscemi, Daniel Radcliffe, Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni, and Jon Bass, will premiere on July 13. It’s set in 1844 in a small town of the American Old West.
TBS also announced the debut of Friday Night Vibes, which is essentially a weekly movie night hosted by Tiffany Haddish, who previously starred in The Last O.G. on the network. The actress, along with a resident DJ, will discuss iconic movies and their cultural impact with some surprise guests. The full movie lineup is TBA but the brief teaser includes Creed and Black Panther. It will launch on June 18.
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No Lolly Adefope for Miracle Workers S3? A shame, but the previous seasons did waste her, and she still has Ghosts and Alan Partridge. I hope she gets more US work though.
I would imagine it was either a travel issue or a conflict with Shrill.
I’d suspect COVID, other rolls, or a combination of both.She was great in the series – the bits of her and Al bantering back and forth were great and usually pretty funny.
I’m really happy for Nasim Pedrad as I’ve always liked her and she seems underused on TV since SNL. But her ‘Chad’ character weirds me out.
Chad is a glorious piece of cringe comedy. I love it, but I could never describe it in a way that made it sound good.
My god was the Lakehouse episode the most cringy thing ever. So damn awkward.
But yeah, I do like the show. It is cringy and weird, but actually has a lot of charm to it. I can see how some people might be weirded out by Pedrad and maybe it would be better if a real teen played Chad though.
1st of all, lose the term “ glorious “. “ Pathetic “ seems more appropriate.Making it sound good is about like convincing Satan to serve Slushies to the inhabitants of Hell.
Chad is basically a WHINY Peter Pan.
i didn’t really catch that ‘chad’ was being played by a petite woman with a bad haircut when the first commercials hit, so the whole thing had a vague ‘uncanny valley’ feeling to it. once i found out what the deal was, it didn’t go away
There is nothing about this character that makes want to like them.
I don’t think that’s what they’re going for anyway, though. She’s playing a reflection of every adolescent insecurity manifested all at once and all out loud, which we all know would create a very unlikable thing.
I’m Chaaaaad. I’m all awkwarrrrd.
Sir Chad the Whiny of the Kingdom of Pathetica / Patheticus.
The first season of Miracle Workers was brilliant. The second season was a waste of time. I hope they don’t drop the ball again with the third season.
Chad qualified for $3.6 million in tax incentives from the California Film Commission if it moved to CA (from Vancouver). So that made the renewal decision a lot easier for TBS. Overall the ratings in S1 are on par with S16 of American Dad, with Chad lower in the demo. Expect Chad to get canceled after S2 unless the ratings spike or another TBS original drops in the ratings.
Miracle Workers also got a nice tax incentive to move production to CA as did some other shows under the giant HBO/Warner tent like The Flight Attendant.
I don’t at all understand how in the hell Miracle Workers got antholegized. The premise for season one was really interesting. Season two was not at all and I kept waiting for the twist where someone wakes up from their coma or they all have amnesia or another god being has cast them down to medieval times and they have to come together and find their way out but no it was just a boring season of medieval times.
I’m the other way. Season 1 looked like some weird Disney Channel Tween+ show and absolutely failed to engage anyone in my household at all. In retrospect, the concept was something that just didn’t speak across multiple episodes and I really had no idea at all what was going on – and the costuming/sets/performances all added to that.Second season was easily a much more base level of humor, much less a high concept “you have to understand this core concept for the series to make sense” and much more a very weird sitcom that seemed like it escaped from some weird SNL pitch meeting but picked up a good cast and writers along the way.I get if you like the first season that the second (and from appearances the third) felt like it wasn’t the same show, as far as I can tell it really isn’t.
I am very much in agreement with you here. S1 was fine, but it came off more like a lesser clone of “The Good Place”. S2 I connected with a lot more, as everyone just seemed to be having a good time, and the world building much less tedious.
I can get that too. I also had no idea that it had become an anthology show when I started the second season so I was very confused as to at what point the characters were going to revert to their season one roles. I thought since maybe the first season was so high concept that they were going for something even more berserk for the second.
They have Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, The actor who plays Dopinder in Deadpool / Deadpool 2. Maybe it’s the writing ?
More Miracle Workers?! Hell yes. HELL YES.More Chad? Oh. (I never watched it, it looks like Pen15 if it had to be toned down for traditional cable – hard pass)
Chad is supposed to teen angst, but this is WHINY teen angst with a bunch of antiquated cliches reused.
Legit excited over the new season of Miracle Workers. I really bounced hard off the first season, keep meaning to go back and rewatch it after the second season hooked and landed us. Chad? *sigh* Joy, more cringe without comedy. The commercials alone make me wish there was a setting for “don’t even show commercials about this”.
I can’t tell from the ads if Chad is supposed to be a boy, a girl, or transgender. I find that fact so confusing that I genuinely can’t even focus on anything else happens in the ads, have no idea what the show is about because I can’t get past trying to figure out Chad’s gender lol.