It’s official, Chad Powers is getting his sophomore year.
Hulu has renewed the sports-comedy series, Chad Powers, for season two. The show stars Glen Powell as Russ Holliday, a disgraced football player who gets a second chance at his dream by going incognito as Chad Powers, a player for the South Georgia Catfish, with the help of prosthetics (and a very unique accent).
The series is based on ESPN and Omaha Productions’ “Eli’s Places” segment, in which Eli Manning disguised himself with prosthetics to participate in Penn State’s walk-on tryouts. Manning also executive produces the series alongside his brother and NFL legend, Peyton Manning, Powell, Jamie Horowitz, Ben Brown, Burke Magnus, Brian Lockhart, Kati Fernandez, Adam Fasullo, Luvh Rakhe, and Tony Yacenda. Michael Waldron and Powell serve as co-creators.
Additional cast members include Perry Mattfeld as Ricky, Quentin Plair as Coach Byrd, Wynn Everett as Tricia Yeager, Frankie A. Rodriguez as Danny and Steve Zahn as Coach Jake Hudson.
Season one’s six-episode run ended with a cliffhanger: Ricky discovering that Chad’s true identity is Russ. However, she decided not to expose him to the Catfish. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Powell said he’s always had ideas in mind for the arc of Chad’s journey, if the show was to get renewed.
“The reality is there’s a lot more story to be told. There was a construction early on for an arc of what the Catfish would look like. So we have a beginning, middle and end in mind. But people have to tune in and show us they want to see it. We believe in this show. I believe we have a hit show here and one the world’s really going to love,” Powell said in an interview published in October. “If we get the privilege to make a second season, we have some fun stuff in mind.”
