By Tammy Reese
Critically Acclaimed Comedy Series Created by Brian Jordan Alvarez
Returns This Year
Starring Alvarez, Stephanie Koenig, Enrico Colantoni,
Sean Patton and Carmen Christopher
FX’s English Teacher, the critically acclaimed comedy series created by Brian Jordan Alvarez, has been renewed for a second season, it was announced today by Nick Grad, President, FX Entertainment. The 10-episode second season will premiere in 2025.
“English Teacher was one of the most critically acclaimed new shows of 2024 and we are grateful to the producers, writers, cast, directors and crew for the show’s creative excellence,” said Grad. “We look forward to the new season.”
English Teacher’s first season has received three Critics Choice Awards nominations, including Best Comedy Series, and four nominations for the Film Independent Spirit Awards, including Best New Scripted Series. The show has also received two Writers Guild Award nominations for New Series and Episodic Comedy. It is one of the best reviewed shows of the year, earning a spot on numerous critics’ year-end Top 10 lists, including being rated the #1 Best Show of the Year by both Decider and Consequence. English Teacher’s first season has a Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh score of 98% and a Metacritic Must Watch score of 83. The critical acclaim includes:
“a perfect season of TV” - Daily Beast
“easily the best new comedy of the year” - TVGuide.com
“2024’s funniest new show” - GoldDerby
“one of the year’s funniest new shows” - TVLine
“Top of the class” - The Hollywood Reporter
“genuinely hilarious” - IndieWire
“a blessedly funny straight-ahead sitcom” - The New York Times
“an improbable, radically playful triumph” - The Washington Post
“Comedy Gold” - The Wrap
English Teacher is a comedy series created by Brian Jordan Alvarez, in which he stars as “Evan Marquez,” a high school teacher in Austin, Texas who often finds himself at the intersection of the personal, professional and political aspects of working at a high school. Over the first season, Evan navigates his relationships, his students and his fellow faculty and tries to answer the question: can you really be your full self at your job?
The series also stars Stephanie Koenig, Enrico Colantoni, Sean Patton and Carmen Christopher.
Created by Brian Jordan Alvarez, FX’s English Teacher is executive produced by Alvarez, Paul Simms, Jonathan Krisel, Dave King, Kathryn Dean, Jake Bender and Zach Dunn. English Teacher is produced by FX Productions.
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Official Site: https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/english-teacher
About FX
FX, a division of Disney Entertainment, is a global multiplatform brand that develops, produces, commissions and markets original programming for Hulu and the FX and FXX linear channels in the U.S., and Disney+ in all other international territories. The FX brand mark appears above the title across its entire slate of originals. Over the past two decades, FX has been responsible for some the most-critically acclaimed and award-winning shows on television. Some of the brand’s current and legacy titles include the dramas American Horror Story, American Crime Story, The Americans, Damages, Fargo, FEUD, Justified, Nip/Tuck, The Old Man, The Patient, Pose, Rescue Me, The Shield, Shōgun, Say Nothing, Snowfall and Sons of Anarchy; the comedies Archer, Atlanta, The Bear, Better Things, DAVE, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Reservation Dogs and What We Do in the Shadows; and a slate of docuseries and documentary films including Welcome to Wrexham, The New York Times Presents and Dear Mama.
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