Shrinking booked multiple sessions at Apple.
The therapeutic comedy starring Jason Segel has been renewed for a third season on the streamer. The news comes just after the launch of the second season, scheduled for Tuesday.
Created by Segel with Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein – the latter, who joined the cast in a key guest role for the second season – the cast also includes Harrison Ford in one of his first television roles.
News of the renewal was announced Thursday at New York Comic Con when Segel and Goldstein — along with cast members Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell and Ted McGinley — took the main stage for a discussion on season two, which is now streaming its first two episodes.
“I'm so lucky to work there Shrinking with actors, writers and a crew so talented that they elevate the material,” co-creator and executive producer Lawrence said in a statement. “I'm even more fortunate that they are people I would still want to spend time with. A huge thank you to Apple TV+ and Warner Bros. for the amazing partnership and support. I'm so grateful that we can continue to make this show. Next!
Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+, added: “It's been wonderful to see audiences around the world fall in love with the memorable characters and rich world that Bill, Brett and Jason have created. We're incredibly excited for viewers to see where life takes Jimmy, Paul, Liz, Gabby, Alice, Sean, Brian and Derek, as they continue their touching, heartwarming and very funny journey in season three.”
Shrinking follows grieving therapist Jimmy (Segel) as he begins breaking the rules and telling his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making enormous and tumultuous changes to people's lives, including his own. The first season ended with a major cliffhanger.
Lawrence and his co-creators said they pitched Shrinking to Apple with a three-season plan, but in a Season 2 preview chat The Hollywood Reporter, Lawrence said they might not stop at three.
“I was talking to my big partners at Apple,” he said in an article published this week. “If they want to keep doing it ShrinkingI would absolutely continue to do it. I just think the story of Jason Segel's character, of Jimmy's wife dying and dealing with all that and overcoming it, if you're six years later, it still says, “I'm still sad about that thing that happened five years ago,” I'm like, 'Okay, you've got to tell a new story.'”
Lawrence also recently wrapped up its first season Bad monkey comedy with Apple, marking his third project with the streamer following his Emmy win Ted Lassowhich remains up in the air in season four. “I will politely say that I'm ready for whatever the captain of the ship wants me to be,” Lawrence added of Jason Sudeikis eventually revealing if and when they do more Ted Lasso. “A plan will be put in place soon, but so far the plan is not in action,” Goldstein, who also stars in Ted Lassorecently echoed THR.
Segel, meanwhile, has already starred in the film Apple The sky is everywhere.
Shrinking is produced for Apple TV+ by Warner Bros. Television, where Lawrence and Goldstein have overall deals, and Lawrence's Doozer Productions. Lawrence, Segel, Goldstein, Neil Goldman, James Ponsoldt, Jeff Ingold, Liza Katzer, Randall Winston, Annie Mebane, Rachna Fruchbom and Brian Gallivan, Ashley Nicole Black and Bill Posley serve as executive producers.
New episodes of Shrinking releases Wednesdays on Apple TV+ until the finale on December 25. Laws THR'The entire second season chat with Lawrence.