HBO Renews Los Angeles Lakers Series WINNING TIME for a Second Season
HBO has announced the renewal of their Los Angeles Lakers series Winning Time for a second season. The pickup comes midway through the show’s first season, which chronicles Jerry Buss, played by John C. Reilly, purchasing the team and Earvin “Magic” Johnson’s (Quincy Isaiah) rookie season in 1979-80.
Francesca Orsi, executive VP of HBO Programming said in a statement:
“It’s been a thrill to bring Winning Time to life with [executive producers] Adam McKay, Max Borenstein, our phenomenal producing team, and this incredible cast. This series not only tells the riveting story of the Lakers’ rise, but is also a look back at a transformative era in basketball, celebrity, and the city of Los Angeles. We can’t wait to see how this team will tell the next chapter of this dynasty.”
THR reports that “HBO has also optioned Pearlman’s follow-up about the Shaquille O’Neal-Kobe Bryant years of the Lakers, titled Three-Ring Circus, should the series go that far. (The current season has thus far only chronicled the 1979-80 season, which at that pace would put the early 2000s several seasons away.)”
Winning Time is based on Jeff Pearlman’s book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht co-created the series, “which chronicles both the Lakers’ rise to the top of the basketball world and the way their on- and off-court showmanship helped usher in the modern NBA and the go-go 1980s.”
Reilly and Isaiah are joined in the show’s cast by Jason Clarke, Adrien Brody, Gaby Hoffmann, Tracy Letts, Jason Segel, Julianne Nicholson, Hadley Robinson, DeVaughn Nixon, Solomon Hughes, Tamera Tomakili, Brett Cullen, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Spencer Garrett, Sarah Ramos, Molly Gordon, Joey Brooks, Delante Desouza, Jimel Atkins, Austin Aaron and Jon Young, with Rob Morgan and Sally Field.
Are you looking forward to the next chapter in the Lakers’ Winning Time saga?
