{"id":43015,"date":"2015-07-10T17:23:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T21:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=43015"},"modified":"2015-07-10T17:23:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T21:23:30","slug":"hbos-ballers-officially-renewed-for-season-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/07\/10\/hbos-ballers-officially-renewed-for-season-two\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Ballers&#8221; Officially Renewed for Season Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since premiering on June 21, HBO&#8217;s new comedy &#8220;Ballers&#8221; has suffered two consecutive ratings drops.<\/p>\n<p>Those declines did not prevent the network from ordering a second season.<\/p>\n<p>HBO today confirmed that it has renewed its comedy, which comes from &#8220;Entourage&#8221; creator Stephen Levinson and airs out of &#8220;True Detective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The charismatic and hugely talented Dwayne Johnson, along with the rest of the BALLERS cast, has truly struck a chord with the HBO audience,&#8221; said HBO&#8217;s Lombardo. &#8220;We are thrilled with the overwhelming response the series has received and look forward to another exciting season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While not spectacular &#8211; especially insofar as the show features one of the biggest movie stars in the world &#8211; the ratings have been solid by HBO standards.  Moreover, the show has proven very popular with time-shifters and on-demand viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The June 21 premiere, for instance, reached 2.162 million viewers for its first-run broadcast but 8.9 million total views across all HBO platforms and 5.6 million on Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson&#8217;s Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048,437],"tags":[4463,78,338],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HBO&#039;s &quot;Ballers&quot; Officially Renewed for Season Two<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Since premiering on June 21, HBO&#039;s new comedy &quot;Ballers&quot; has suffered two consecutive ratings drops. 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