HBO Max Survivor 'Minx', Starring Jake Johnson, Gets Season 2 Premiere Date At New Home Starz

The acclaimed comedy was canceled in December, allowing Lionsgate to take their ball and go home

With an end to 2022 that was more erratic than erotic, Minx is ready to make its grand return. The second season of the comedy will premiere on Starz on July 21 at 9 PM, but at midnight on the app and on-demand, like any watch-anywhere app.

Minx is about Joyce Prigger, played by Ophelia Lovibond, a diligent young feminist in 1970s Los Angeles. She teams up with a low-rent publisher Doug Renetti, played by Jake Johnson, to create the first erotic magazine for women. The series also stars Michael Angarano, Idara Victor, Jessica Lowe, Lennon Parham, Oscar Montoya, and Elizabeth Perkins.

The first season premiered on HBO Max in March 2022, airing its ten episodes over the next month. Just a few weeks later, it was renewed for a second season. So the Lionsgate Television-produced series got to work on that second season. In December, production was nearly complete, in its very final week, when the streamer canceled it and removed the first. Filming continued anyway, wrapping six days later. Starz would announce its rescue of the series a few weeks later and was soon added. Season two will see Doug and Joyce grapple with massive success for the magazine, which brings “more money, fame, and temptation than either of them knows how to handle”.

While most shows canceled by HBO Max weren’t as lucky, reality series FBoy Island was picked up by The CW and spun off, while Batman: Caped Crusader, which was dropped mid-production, landed at Amazon Prime Video. Minx is created by Ellen Rapoport, who also serves as showrunner and executive producer. Paul Feig is one of the other executive producers, specifically through his company Feigco Entertainment, and Johnson is a co-executive producer.

Source: Deadline