How to Stay Married Renewed for Season 2 & ABC’s It’s a Date moves to 10
TV Blackbox can exclusively reveal the Peter Helliar and Lisa McCune fronted comedy How To Stay Married will be back for a second season. Although 10 have made no official announcement as yet, close colleagues and friends say Helliar is back in pre-production and has begun writing new episodes to screen later this year.
Sources confirm the writing process has begun but shooting is a long way off.
Ratings across the series started strong but subsequent episodes levelled out below 300 000 viewers.
10 have a strong slate of Australian new and returning series including Playing for Keeps, Five Bedrooms, Mr Black, My Life is Murder, The Secret She Keeps, Taboo, Kinne Tonight, Trial By Kyle, Bring Back Saturday Night for later in 2019 but the network has already moved Changing Rooms after a disappointing debut.
How to Stay Married is an off shoot of the 2013/ 014 ABC comedy It’s a Date, written and directed by Helliar. Although there are currently no plans to return the show into production, there are hints this might happen in the future as TV Blackbox can exclusively reveal Network Ten has acquired the rights to all 16 episodes of the original ABC series.
It’s a Date is set to screen on the channels of Network Ten later this year.
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