Comedy Central renews 'Key & Peele'
Second season of 10 episodes will premiere in the fall
"Key & Peele"
Credit: Comedy Central
Comedy Central has given a quick renewal to the sketch series "Key & Peele."
"Key & Peele" premiered last month to strong reviews and 2.1 million viewers, making it Comedy Central's top series launch since 2009 and making the renewal a no-brainer.
Looking deeper than the 2.1 million total viewers, "Key & Peele" performed particularly strongly among young male viewers, doing a 2.6 rating among men 1834 and a 3.3 rating among men 18-24, topping its time period in both demos for all of television.
As usual with Comedy Central, the announcement was accompanied by semi-funny blurb quotes from all and sundry.
"Because 'Key & Peele' has been so immediately and universally well received, I was worried if we didn't give the show a quick pick up, people might accuse me of being racist," states Kent Alterman, Comedy Central's head of original programming.
Ha?
Add stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, "We are honored, humbled and most importantly contractually obligated to deliver a second season to Comedy Central."
Indeed, "Key & Peele" will get 10 episodes for a second season, premiering this fall.
You don't have to wait that long, of course, since a third episode of "Key & Peele" airs on Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. on Comedy Central.
A long-time member of the TCA Board and a longer-time blogger of "American Idol," Dan Fienberg writes about TV, except for when he writes about movies or sometimes writes about the Red Sox. But never music. He would sound stupid talking about music.
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February 14, 2012 at 3:09PM EST Reply to CommentSweet! The first episode made me laugh a lot more, but this is still great news.
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February 14, 2012 at 3:34PM EST Reply to CommentGenuinely very happy about this. Best sketch show I've seen in years.