NBC Renews "Smash" for Second Season

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NBC Renews "Smash" for Second Season
3/22/2012
by Lesley Goldberg


NBC has renewed "Smash" for a second season.

The Broadway drama starring Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty ranks as the network's No. 1 drama in the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demographic and total viewers.





"Smash" becomes the network's second pickup this season under new entertainment topper Robert Greenblatt, who brought the series about the making of a Broadway play about Marilyn Monroe with him to the network after departing Showtime.

The series, which received heavy promotion on NBC during the Super Bowl, opened strong out of the gate for the fourth-place broadcaster in February and has been considered a passion project -- and big bet -- for Greenblatt.





Rebeck, told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour in January -- ahead of its February bow -- that she already had a plan for Season 2.

"The second season, if we're lucky enough to get one, would be Marilyn comes to Broadway and how it fares in New York," she said at the time.



Asked if there could be a new play that begins being workshopped should the series earn a renewal, Greenblatt later told reporters that it was unclear.

"The Season 2 plan is Marilyn goes to Broadway and after that we'll decide if a new show should emerge," he said.



Added EP Marc Shaiman: "The show itself is telling us; it's not like we don't think ahead. What we thought nine months ago is changing week to week as the actors bring what they bring."

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