Followers of The Bear ought to prepare for an annual binge, FX’s John Landgraf revealed on the TCA winter press tour on Friday, February ninth. The Emmy-winning comedy, now in manufacturing on Season 3, is about to debut June 2024, with all episodes premiering directly.
Landgraf acknowledged that this would be the sample going ahead for the sequence, one which started with the primary season in 2022. “All of us watched the primary season, we talked about it, and it wasn’t misplaced on me or anybody else who labored on the present that it’s somewhat anxiety-inducing… So we decided that we’d drop the entire thing as a binge, as a result of for these of you who noticed it, it has a very lovely, very uplifting ending.”
The technique labored, he added: “Actually the primary time I had an inkling of how an enormous hit it will be was once I talked to a buddy and colleague of the platform the day after we dropped it. And he or she mentioned, there are at the moment 100 thousand concurrent streams proper now in America watching the eighth episode of The Bear — the day after we dropped the entire thing.”
When the time got here to debate the discharge of Season 2, Landgraf continues, “we debated, since we knew now we had successful, and you already know, can we milk it somewhat bit and may we roll it out over weeks?” However they determined that it “can be a rotten factor to do, to alter it up for the viewers… So we simply determined to not change what we’d already set in movement. And I’ve little question we’ll simply maintain doing it.”
One other enjoyable truth: As a result of manufacturing on The Bear retains its secrets and techniques shut, Landgraf didn’t know in regards to the caliber of visitor stars introduced in for Season 2 till he first watched the episodes. “I used to be as shocked as you when the Christmas episode [‘Fishes’] got here by way of the door — I skilled he forged that had been pulled along with the shock and freshness of the viewers, which you don’t get to do fairly often within the community job.”
The Bear Season 2 not solely made myallmovies‘s greatest TV of 2023 checklist, however Season 1 cleaned up at the latest Emmy Awards in January. (Its second season can be eligible for the Emmys this fall.) For extra, try our breakdown of how the Season 1 episode “Overview” was made, and why Season 2 had to incorporate a Taylor Swift needle drop.
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