Another early second-season renewal for a Starz drama — the pay cable network has picked up Power following its debut last Friday. The series, created and executive produced by Courtney Kemp Agboh and executive producers Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Mark Canton, David Knoller and Randall Emmett, will begin production on its 10-episode second season in September in and around New York and at its home base at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn.
The eight-episode first season is set in two different worlds, the glamorous New York club scene and the brutal drug trade, and follows James “Ghost” St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick) as he attempts to leave his illegitimate lifestyle behind. “Power is a project extremely close to my heart and working with Chris Albrecht, Carmi Zlotnik and the Starz team has been the perfect fit for this,” Jackson said. “Viewers may be loving the start of Season 1 now, but Season 2 will blow them away.” Power debuted on Friday with 462,000 Live+same day at 9 PM, 1.27 million for the three Saturday night airings and 2.022 million for the nine weekend runs on Saturday and Sunday. That was down from Starz’s most recent debut, pirate drama Black Sails, which launched in January with 846,000; 1.7 million and 2.6 million, respectively; and roughly on par with last August’s opening of limited series The White Queen (416,000 for the premiere airing; 2.1 million for premiere weekend).
Like Power, Starz’s original drama Da Vinci’s Demons was renewed for a second season the Wednesday following its series premiere. Several other Starz series,Boss, Magic City, Spartacus and most recently, Black Sails, were given second-season pickups ahead of their series debuts.
Source: Deadline
