‘Chad Powers’ College Football Comedy From Glen Powell & Michael Waldron Scores Season 2 At Hulu
Chad Powers will get to finish out his electric season with the South Georgia Catfish after all.
Hulu has renewed the Glen Powell-led comedy series Chad Powers for a second season, the streamer revealed Wednesday. Powell is returning as the titular character.
The series is based on the ESPN and Omaha Productions segment “Eli’s Places,” where Eli Manning disguised himself in prosthetics to participate in a walk-on tryout at Penn State.
In Season 1 of Chad Powers, co-created by Powell and Loki scribe Michael Waldron, Powell’s disgraced former Oregon star quarterback Russ Holliday tries to redeem himself eight years after he nuked his football career by disguising himself as Chad Powers, a talented oddball who walks on to the struggling South Georgia Catfish.
The Season 1 finale left off on somewhat of a cliffhanger, as Chad and the Catfish took the field to face the Georgia Bulldogs and, for the first time, just might win. At the same time, the walls are closing in on Russ as his secret identity threatens to reveal itself at any moment.
The final scene was shot during a real Georgia Bulldogs football game, and Waldron previously told Deadline he intends to continue trying to incorporate as much authentic SEC football as he can in future seasons. He also says he and Powell want to tell the story “pretty much in real time,” meaning that Season 2 is likely to pick up soon after the events of the first season.
Chad Powers, which debuted on September 30, quickly landed at No. 34 among Luminate’s Top 50 streaming shows for that week with nearly 1.6M hours viewed for just one episode. The following week, it rose to No. 19 with 2.2M hours viewed across two episodes. It reliably remained on Luminate’s rankings throughout its six-episode run.
In addition to Powell as both Chad Powers and Russ Holliday, Season 1 also stars Perry Mattfeld as Ricky, Quentin Plair as Coach Byrd, Wynn Everett as Tricia Yeager, Frankie A. Rodriguez as Danny and Steve Zahn as Coach Jake Hudson.
Executive producers for Chad Powers are Powell, Waldron, Eli Manning, Peyton Manning, Jamie Horowitz, Ben Brown, Burke Magnus, Brian Lockhart, Kati Fernandez, Adam Fasullo, Luvh Rakhe, and Tony Yacenda. The series is produced by 20th Television.
Season 1, which premiered in the fall, is streaming on Disney+ and Hulu.
