{"id":45678,"date":"2022-06-11T01:32:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T01:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/schmigadoon-renewed-for-season-2-at-apple-returning-as-chicago-parody\/"},"modified":"2022-06-11T01:32:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T01:32:01","slug":"schmigadoon-renewed-for-season-2-at-apple-returning-as-chicago-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/schmigadoon-renewed-for-season-2-at-apple-returning-as-chicago-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmigadoon Renewed for Season 2 at Apple, Returning as Chicago Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articlebody\">\n<p>Apple TV + has booked a return trip to <em>Schmigadoon!<\/em> Well, sort of. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline-floating-gallery\">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span id=\"more-1234708285\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The streamer announced Friday that it has renewed the musical satire &#8211; but unlike Season 1, which parodied 1940s musicals, Season 2 will lampoon an entirely different era of showtunes.  The official logline reveals that, &#8220;having found true love in the town of Schmigadoon, Season 2 will find Josh (Keegan-Michael Key) and Melissa (Cecily Strong) in Schmicago, the world of &#8217;60s and&#8217; 70s musicals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Key and Strong will be joined by new series regulars Tituss Burgess (<em>Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt<\/em>) and Patrick Page (<em>The Gilded Age<\/em>), while fellow returnees include Oscar winner Ariana DeBose, Dove Cameron, Jaime Camil (who previously played Billy Flynn in Broadway&#8217;s <em>Chicago<\/em>), Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Ann Harada, Jane Krakowski, Martin Short and Aaron Tveit.<\/p>\n<p>Missing from Season 2&#8217;s cast list are Fred Armisen and Liam Quiring-Nkindi, who co-starred in Season 1 as Reverend Howard Layton and Emma&#8217;s son Carson.<\/p>\n<p><em>Schmigadoon!<\/em>&#8216;s Season 1 finale saw Josh and Melissa reconcile.  The outsiders then made their way to the bridge in hopes of returning to their former lives in New York City &#8211; but before viewers could see if they crossed over, the finale cut to black.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was by design that we don&#8217;t cross the bridge,\u201d Key previously told TVLine.  &#8220;We get a palpable ending, which is to say [Melissa and Josh] have learned the lesson that Schmigadoon has presented to them, but there is more to this place that we haven&#8217;t explored.  I know for a fact that [series co-creator Cinco Paul] has worked out a Season 2 in his mind, if we&#8217;re lucky enough to get a pick-up.  The other thing I do know is that Melissa and Josh are [in it]. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Paul concurred, saying only that the story \u201ccould continue\u2026 there <em>is<\/em> blackberries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TVLine&#8217;s Streaming Scorecard has been updated to reflect <em>Schmigadoon!<\/em>&#8216;s renewal. <strong style=\"color: #333399;\">Are you looking forward to Season 2?  Hit the comments and tell us which musicals (beyond <em>Chicago<\/em>) you&#8217;d like to see lampooned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=228932107161302\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple TV + has booked a return trip to Schmigadoon! Well, sort of. The streamer announced Friday that it has renewed the musical satire &#8211; but unlike Season 1, which parodied 1940s musicals, Season 2 will lampoon an entirely different era of showtunes. The official logline reveals that, &#8220;having found true love in the town &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/schmigadoon-renewed-for-season-2-at-apple-returning-as-chicago-parody\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Schmigadoon Renewed for Season 2 at Apple, Returning as Chicago Parody<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/tvline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/schmigadoon-cast-apple-tv-plus.jpg?w=620","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}