“Westworld” renewed for 2nd season at HBO, may nor air until 2018November 15, 2016 - 12:48 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - HBO has booked a return ticket to Westworld. The premium cable network has renewed the freshman drama for a second season of 10 episodes to air in either fall 2017 or 2018, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. "Westworld is such a big, ambitious show. I don't know if it will be fall of 2017 or into '18," HBO programming president Casey Bloys told THR. "That will depend as we get up and running. With Westworld, because the production is such a big endeavor, I don't exactly know when [it will premiere] yet. I can't speculate other than to say it'll either be '17 or '18. Probably more like '18 and half-hours [Insecure and Divorce] in '17 but we're a year away so let's see how it goes." The star-studded sci-fi Western about a futuristic amusement park where visitors live out their wildest fantasies in a world populated by robots came in with high expectations — and budget in the $100 million range for its first 10-episode season. The series opened to a promising start Oct. 2 with nearly 2 million viewers tuning in live-plus-same-day returns for the supersized premiere. Factoring in HBO Go and HBO Now streams, that spikes to 3.3 million total viewers. All told, an estimated 6 million watched the debut, including on-demand and multiple network plays. Episode two, offered early on streaming and VOD platforms to subscribers, scored a combined 2.7 million viewers. The drama, which has taken a live-same-day hit when airing against AMC juggernaut The Walking Dead, has made up that difference on DVR and On-Demand/HBO Go returns. Season to date, Westworld is averaging a gross audience of 11.7 million total viewers — besting Game of Thrones and True Detective during their comparable first-season frames. Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | International cybercrime ringleaders arrested in Armenia, Ukraine Europol, Europe's crime agency, has arrested four ringleaders of several cybercrime networks that used botnets. Armenia skips CSTO Defense Ministers meeting A meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization countries began in Almaty. Armenian, Iranian foreigh policy chief talk over the phone The Foreign Minister of Armenia once again expressed condolences to his counterpart on the death of the President of Iran. Armenia, U.S. customs authorities to boost assistance with new deal The government has approved an agreement with the U.S. government on mutual assistance between the customs authorities. |