Danny McBride and Walton Goggins' New HBO Comedy VICE PRINCIPALS Will Only Last Two Seasons
Variety caught up with Danny McBride and director Jody Hill during the red carpet premiere of HBO's hilarious-looking new comedy Vice Principals, and they found out something I hadn't heard about the show before: it's only going to last a total of eighteen episodes across two seasons. McBride told them:
"The whole series is only 18 episodes and that’s it. We just wanted to make a really long movie. It’s one school year and a complete story. This was an old screenplay that Jody [Hill] and I wrote back in 2006. But we needed it to be longer so we added and reworked it and broke it up into 18 segments. HBO trusted us to make those episodes without anyone watching them, so they really, really trust us."
When the reporter pressed Hill about whether or not there would be more episodes if the first two seasons performed well, he simply said, "No. We already shot the 18 episodes and that’s it."
Vice Principals stars McBride and Walton Goggins (Justified, The Shield) as a pair of high school vice principals competing against each other for the newly-vacated principal position, and from everything we've seen so far, it appears they're willing to go to truly insane lengths to win that job. It's nice to hear everyone has had a vision for exactly what this series is going to be from the very beginning and they won't have to scramble to come up with extra material to keep it alive past its intended length. The series premieres on July 17 on HBO. Check out the most recent trailer below: