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Vice Principals: Last Episode of New HBO Series Already Finished

by Cindy McLennan, July 18, 2016

Vice Principals TV show on HBO: season 1 (canceled or renewed?).

Vice Principals TV show on HBO, season one of two. Photo: Fred Norris/HBO.

While the first season of the Vice Principals TV show just premiered on HBO last night, The second and final season is already in the can. Co-creator and star Danny McBride says he and director/co-creator Jody Hill delivered the Vice Principals TV series finale to HBO last week. The duo executive produced the series with David Gordon Green, Jonathan Watson, and Stephanie Laing.

In addition to McBride, the complete two-season Vice Principals TV series stars: Walter Goggins, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Georgia King, Busy Phillips, Shea Whigham, and Sheaun McKinney. Guest stars in the first season include Bill Murray, Susan Park, and Maya Love. The second season of Vice Principals is expected to premiere on HBO in 2017. When we know more, you will.

Here is more, from Variety:

 

I understand you originally conceived “Vice Principals” as a feature, but where did the idea come from?

It was floating around my head — the idea of these administrators at a high school battling for power seemed like a funny scenario for a power struggle. It was that kernel of an idea; I told Jody about it and he came to Virginia. We holed up for a week and pounded out the feature-length version of it. We really liked it, we liked the characters, but there was something about it unfolding in 90 minutes that didn’t feel original enough, you could see some of the punches coming. We didn’t really know how to correct that and we put it away.

After we finished “Eastbound” and thought about what was next, we really loved working with HBO and loved the idea of telling a longer story… We couldn’t get a nine hour movie greenlit, so this was a way to tell a nine hour story. Once we started to expand the feature into an 18 episode arc it started to really come alive. The show could take unexpected turns and follow detours for different characters, and see a story in a way you couldn’t have done with a feature.

“Vice Principals” was officially ordered by HBO over two years ago. Was it a long process to make?

We ended “Eastbound” in 2013 and we spent all of 2014 writing [“Vice Principals”]. We had a writers room open for a year and we wrote all 18 episodes before we shot. And then we spent all of last year shooting it all. We actually delivered the last episode of the whole series to HBO last week. For the first time I’m not thinking about vice principals fighting for a principal job anymore.

Did you pitch it as an 18-episode project? How did HBO react?

I thought it would be a hard sell for them because obviously if the show worked you would think they’d want it to keep going. But they liked the approach of, “let’s give people a story that has a confident beginning, middle and end.” We’re not trying to drag out plot points and story points in the hope we can drag this out for season after season. This is one school year. The first nine [episodes] are fall term and the back nine are spring term. It gave an immediacy to the storytelling, you could set things up and pay things off without having to drag out the narrative.

Was the plan always to split it into two seasons?

We followed the idea of a semester in a school. You’ve got two semesters and that seemed like a cool way to tell the story. It’ll make a little more sense once you’ve seen the whole thing but it is like two acts of the full story.

 

Vice Principals TV show on HBO: season 1 (canceled or renewed?).

Vice Principals TV show on HBO, season one of two. Photo: Fred Norris/HBO.

 

What do you think? Did you watch the first season premiere of Vice Principals on HBO? Are you disappointed that it will only run two seasons, or do you think that is kind of cool?

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Vice principals is one of the best tv shows I’ve ever watched!!! Really sad it had to end but good thinking on McBride and others part to keep it short. Every one on the show is amazing and ridiculously funny. I have always loved Danny McBride but Walter Goggins became my absolute favorite, hands down!!! This is a show I could watch several times. I loved it so much I bought a t-shirt lol!

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November 24, 2018 5:15 am
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HBO SUCKS FOR CANCELING THIS GOOD COMEDY !!!!

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November 9, 2017 10:07 am
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Sighs… I actually binge watch this TV series I found it very funny and I’m sad to see it go…

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November 7, 2016 6:27 pm
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I actually liked McBride better in this than in Eastbound and Down. I never understood why it stayed on for so long. I was beginning to actually feel for some of the characters: Shea , the daughter, the new principal, him. and the poor teacher he tortured. The rest seemed to be shallow characatures of really nasty nasty people. Which one was Busy Phillips? I didn’t recognize her in his “love” interest or ex-wife. What makes me happy is that the woman he tortured in EB and D has a new and highly highly rated series coming soon! Yea to… Read more »

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October 7, 2016 10:12 pm
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Although nowhere near as good as eastbound it still is good enough for 2 seasons. Some jokes feel old and repeated.

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October 6, 2016 8:08 am
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I absolutely love this show! I was so sad when it had its season finale. I can’t wait for the second season to begin! Give me more!!

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I sure hope Vice Principals will be coming back for a second season. I love this show and Ballers and tape them every Sunday night. Vice Principals is absolutely hilarious!!!

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You didn’t even read the story did you? Not even one word…

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Need to know there Are people paid the post messages sites like this even. how minuscule they might be.

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