HBO Renews BALLERS For Third Season

SINGAPORE, JULY 31, 2016 – HBO has announced the premiere dates of three brand-new HBO Original series – WESTWORLD, INSECURE AND DIVORCE, which will premiere at the same time as the U.S. on HBO in October.

In addition, HBO has renewed the comedy series BALLERS for a third season. “Dwayne Johnson, Stephen Levinson, Mark Wahlberg and the rest of the BALLERS team have once again delivered a winner for our viewers,” said Casey Bloys, president, HBO Programming. “We look forward to another great season of BALLERS next year.”

WESTWORLD

Season premiere on HBO same time as the U.S. Monday, October 3 at 9am with a same day primetime encore at 9pm. Also available on HBO GO.

Inspired by the motion picture of the same name, this HBO original drama series is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

Westworld features a strong cast of award-winning actors and actresses, including Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden, Rodrigo Santoro, Clifton Collins, Jr., Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Tessa Thompson and Sidse Babett Knudsen.

DIVORCE

Season premiere on HBO same time as the U.S. Monday, October 10 at 10am with a same day primetime encore at 10pm. Also available on HBO GO.

Award-winning actress Sarah Jessica Parker returns to HBO in this new comedy series about a very, very long divorce. Here, she stars as Frances, a woman who suddenly begins to reassess her life and her marriage, and finds that making a clean break and a fresh start is harder than she thought.

The show also stars Thomas Haden Church, Molly Shannon, Talia Balsam, Tracy Letts, Sterling Jerins and Charlie Kilgore.

INSECURE

Season premiere on HBO same time as the U.S. Monday, October 10 at 10.30am with a same day primetime encore at 10.30pm. Also available on HBO GO.

This eight-episode half-hour HBO comedy series looks at the friendship of two African American black women and their uncomfortable experiences and racy tribulations. Issa Rae, Yvonne Orji, Jay Ellis and Lisa Joyce star.

BALLERS

Catch new episodes of Season 2 on HBO same time as the US every Monday at 10am, with a same day primetime encore at 10pm. Also available on HBO GO.

Looking at the whirlwind lifestyles and real-life problems of former and current football players, BALLERS stars Dwayne Johnson as ex-superstar Spencer Strasmore, who has reinvented himself as a financial manager for today’s players in sun-soaked Miami.

Created by Stephen Levinson (HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”), the hit comedy series kicked off its ten-episode second season July 18 in Asia. In the U.S., the premiere episode of the new season is already at 5.7 million viewers, with only preliminary data available. BALLERS’ first season in the U.S. went on to average 9.1 million viewers in gross audience – HBO’s biggest half-hour in six years.

In addition to Dwayne Johnson, the cast on season two of BALLERS includes Rob Corddry, John David Washington, Omar Benson Miller, Donovan Carter, Troy Garity, Jazmyn Simon, London Brown, Arielle Kebbel, Dulé Hill, Richard Schiff and Andy Garcia.

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