Amazon Renews The Tick For Second Season

Spoon! Amazon Studios has officially announced the renewal of The Tick for a second season. The series was created by Ben Edlund, who will return with stars Peter Serafinowicz and Griffin Newman. The second season will consist of ten episodes and will begin production this year for a 2019 release date on Prime Video. The second half of the first season, meanwhile, arrives on February 23 with six new episodes.

Amazon Studios head of Scripted series Sharon Yguado said: “Ben has created a resounding hit while Peter and Griffin have brought Tick and Arthur to indelible life. We can’t wait to bring fans more of the Tick universe soon.”

Edlund added: “I am so excited that Amazon wants to continue this wildly fruitful collaboration and that this amazing cast gets to stay together, and that we get to build this mythos further, wider, deeper, and taller. We got a good ball of mud spinning with the right tilt of axis, I’m very happy we have this opportunity to keep peopling it.”

The Tick himself even commented on the news. He said: “You feel it too, don’t you? Destiny’s warm hand in the small of your back, pushing, pushing. She’s on a roll.”

The series is executive produced by Edlund, Barry Josephson, Barry Sonnenfeld and Kit Boss. The second half of the show’s first season will premiere on February 23 and will feature six all-new episodes.

Here’s a synopsis: In a world where superheroes have been real for decades, Arthur (Newman), an accountant with mental health issues and zero powers, comes to suspect his city is owned by a global super-villain, The Terror (Jackie Earle Haley) who has been long thought dead. As Arthur struggles to uncover the conspiracy he falls in league with a strange blue superhero – The Tick (Serafinowicz). They launch into an adventure brimming with crazed arch-villains, blood-soaked vigilantes, and superhuman freakery.