Showtime’s SMILF Season 2 premiere date revealed in teaser
Showtime has released the first teaser for the upcoming second season of the well-received comedy series SMILF, which also reveals the premiere date for the season as January 20, and the teaser can be viewed in the player below!
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“From its first episode, the refreshingly honest point of view of ‘SMILF’ broke through with audiences, the press and on social media,” said Gary Levine, President of Programming, Showtime Networks Inc. “Frankie Shaw is a creative force to be reckoned with and we love having her on Showtime. Her show is funny and forthright, pointed and poignant, irreverent and relevant, all at once. We can’t wait to see where Frankie takes [the series] next season.”
SMILF debuted with the biggest premiere week audience for a new Showtime comedy since 2012, and had its best total night this week since the series premiere. The series is currently averaging 4.4 million weekly viewers across platforms.
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The series takes a comedic look at the life of Bridgette Bird (Shaw), a young woman from South Boston whose desires for relationships, sex and a career collide with the realities of working-class single motherhood. Shaw brings her singular, unapologetic point of view to the semi-autobiographical comedy series, whose title is meant to be ironic and to reclaim the demeaning nature of the label.
The second season of the series will see Bridgette trying to move forward and focus on her future while still working at her day job, ex-boyfriend Rafi and his girlfriend Nelson growing closer, her mother Tutu rallying from a heartbreaking setback only worsened by the presence of her co-dependent younger sister and the unconventional birth of Bridgette’s son Larry.
The cast also includes Miguel Gomez, Samara Weaving and Alexandra and Anna Reimer. Season one guest stars include Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Connie Britton, Mark Webber and Raven Goodwin. Shaw wrote and directed the pilot. Executive producing alongside Shaw are Oscar nominee Michael London, Lee Eisenberg and Scott King. The series is produced by ABC Signature Studios as a co-production with Showtime.
SMILF will return to Showtime on Sunday, January 20 at 10:30 p.m. EST.
