Another early second-season renewal for a Starz drama — the pay cable network has picked up Power following its debut last Friday. The series, created and executive produced by Courtney Kemp Agboh and executive producers Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Mark Canton, David Knoller and Randall Emmett, will begin production on its 10-episode second season in September in and around New York and at its home base at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn.
The eight-episode first season is set in two different worlds, the glamorous New York club scene and the brutal drug trade, and follows James “Ghost” St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick) as he attempts to leave his illegitimate lifestyle behind. “Power is a project extremely close to my heart and working with Chris Albrecht, Carmi Zlotnik and the Starz team has been the perfect fit for this,” Jackson said. “Viewers may be loving the start of Season 1 now, but Season 2 will blow them away.” Power debuted on Friday with 462,000 Live+same day at 9 PM, 1.27 million for the three Saturday night airings and 2.022 million for the nine weekend runs on Saturday and Sunday. That was down from Starz’s most recent debut, pirate drama Black Sails, which launched in January with 846,000; 1.7 million and 2.6 million, respectively; and roughly on par with last August’s opening of limited series The White Queen (416,000 for the premiere airing; 2.1 million for premiere weekend).
Like Power, Starz’s original drama Da Vinci’s Demons was renewed for a second season the Wednesday following its series premiere. Several other Starz series, Boss, Magic City, Spartacus and most recently, Black Sails, were given second-season pickups ahead of their series debuts.
Great news. Courtney’s such a good writer. I’ll be looking forward to it
Have you seen the show?
This is Starz’ MO. It has nothing to do with anything (like quality or viewership) other then needing to amortize as much of the costs over multiple seasons.
Every premium cable network is like that. No way would Girls or House of Lies have lasted as long as they have on a basic cable network. Everyone gets a golden star just for showing up!
What else is Starz gonna do?
They are the Anchor Bay of TV networks.
Waiting and seeing how a new original series does before renewing it. A better move from Starz than renewing an original series before its premiere.
I really wanted to like this show but it feels very retro and done before. One dimensional characters and tired dialogue. Obviously there’s no one on the show who even remotely knows this world. With all the great mystery writers they used on The Wire, you think people would smarten up.
They will be out of ideas and depth by episode 3
Yes but it’s certainly no Boss! Where are the critically acclaimed shows ?
I like Ghost and his partner they are the real actors.
Love the show with the exception of the wife. She was a bad choice, sorry.
Yeah. Naturi Naughton’s character doesn’t come off as mature. It’s like Ghost is married to an 18 yo.
I’m ready to see the next season , keep it coming!