Please don’t use a bad word when you can use a good word, a generation of children were taught on the children’s show Mr. Pickles’ Puppet Time. Premiere cable network Showtime can use any words it wants, and it just mouthed it renewed the Jim Carrey-starring comedy series Kidding for season 2. The series, which debuted on 9th September stateside, is set to wrap up its first season on 11th November.
Carrey stars as fictional children’s entertainer Jeff Piccirillo, a children’s show host highly influenced by the imaginative world of Mister Rogers, whose family life is falling apart after the death of his son. The iconic Mr. Pickles teaches kindness to impressionable youth. His show, like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, airs on PBS.
“Kidding has established itself as one of the most endearing and inventive shows on television,” Showtime Networks programming resident Gary Levine said in a statement (via Variety). “I feel like I have been watching Mr. Pickles my whole life, and I look forward to being entranced by his unique blend of hilarity and heartbreak in season two.”
Kidding, which marked Carrey’s return to TV after leaving Fox’s sketch comedy series In Living Color 24 years ago, reunited Carrey with director and executive producer Michel Gondry, who won an Oscar for co-writing the film Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Gondry directed the pilot and several episodes for the show’s premiere season. The series, created by Dave Holstein, also stars Frank Langella, Catherine Keener, Judy Greer, Cole Allen and Juliet Morris.
Kidding season 2 will consist of ten episodes, but we don’t know exactly they’ll debut yet.
More as we get it.