Starz Greenlights Second Season of Limited Series “The Girlfriend Experience” from Executive Producer Steven Soderbergh
August 01 2016 - 11:45AM
Business Wire
Co-Creators Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz
Return as Executive Producers, Writers and Directors for the
14-Part Series
Steven Soderbergh’s critically acclaimed limited series “The
Girlfriend Experience” has been greenlit for a second season, Starz
President and Chief Executive Officer Chris Albrecht announced
today at the Starz Television Critics Association (TCA)
presentation at the Beverly Hilton. Soderbergh returns as executive
producer, along with Philip Fleishman, Lodge Kerrigan, Amy Seimetz,
and Jeff Cuban. Andrew Fierberg and Adele Romanski will also
executive produce. Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz will serve as
showrunners, writers and directors for the 14-episode scripted
anthology series.
“The Girlfriend Experience” second season will focus on entirely
new characters and plotlines.
“The first season of ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ allowed us to
accommodate all viewing appetites with the traditional weekly
episodic premiere schedule as well as a binging option for the
entire 13-episodes,” said Carmi Zlotnik, managing director at
Starz. “We’re excited to offer STARZ subscribers a second season
that will explore new GFEs, clients and relationships as we take
viewers back into this world that questions the price of intimacy
and its emotional consequences.”
STARZ Limited series “The Girlfriend Experience” was a
reimagining of Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 critically acclaimed movie
of the same name. Season one of “The Girlfriend Experience,”
starring Riley Keough (Magic Mike, Mad Max: Fury Road), followed
Christine Reade (Keough), a second-year student at Chicago-Burnham
Law School and a new intern at a prestigious law firm. Working hard
to establish herself at the firm, her focus quickly shifts when a
classmate introduces her to the world of transactional
relationships. Juggling two very different lives, Christine quickly
finds herself drawn into the GFE world, attracted to the rush of
control and intimacy. All 13 half-hour episodes of the first season
were made available for STARZ subscribers on April 10 on STARZ ON
DEMAND.
About Starz
Starz (NASDAQ: STRZA, STRZB) is a leading integrated global
media and entertainment company with operating units that provide
premium subscription video programming on domestic U.S. pay
television networks (Starz Networks) and global content
distribution (Starz Distribution), www.starz.com. The Starz
Networks operating unit is home to the flagship STARZ® brand with
24.2 million subscribers in the United States as of June 30, 2016,
with the STARZ ENCORESM network at 31.8 million subscribers.
Through STARZ, the company provides high quality, entertaining
premium subscription video programming with 17 premium pay TV
channels and associated on-demand and online services. STARZ is
sold through U.S. multichannel video distributors, including cable
operators, satellite television providers, telecommunications
companies, and other online and digital platforms. Starz offers
subscribers more than 5,000 distinct premium television episodes
and feature films every year and up to 1,500 every month, including
STARZ Original series, first-run movies and other popular movie and
television programming. The Starz Distribution operating unit is
home to the Anchor Bay Entertainment, Starz Digital, and Starz
Worldwide Distribution divisions. In addition to STARZ Original
series, Starz Distribution develops, produces and acquires movies,
television and other entertainment content for worldwide home
video, digital, and television licensing and sales.
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