Apple TV’s The Studio begins Season 2 filming next week after Golden Globes success

Apple TV’s Hollywood satire, The Studio, is returning to production. Season 2 of the series will start filming next week, as Seth Rogen indicated in his acceptance speech, after a big night at the 2026 Golden Globe Awards.

The Studio received the award of Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy at this year’s Globes on January 11, 2026, and Rogen was awarded the Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy as studio boss Matt Remick.

The Studio Season 2 filming starts next week

The nearest thing to a production update we have at the moment is a comment that Rogen made about starting shooting in a week, which fits with the momentum with which the show comes out of awards season. The series has already been renewed by Apple for Season 2 (the renewal itself was announced in May 2025), suggesting that the note about next week can best be interpreted as a literal update of the schedule, and not merely a hope on a stage.

Rogen was quoted as saying by People magazine, saying:

“We’re so excited to start shooting the next season in one week from today.”

Apple TV has not yet officially announced a Season 2 release date, but the fact that the show is going through the typical pipeline: scripts are being locked (or are locking), timelines are being coordinated, and cameras are soon going to roll. A premier window discussion after that is still a mere speculation until Apple makes the announcement.

Season 2 can be impacted by awards in highly practical terms: creating budget leverage, securing access to a guest-star, and providing a creative team with some latitude by the streamer. This is of particular help to The Studio since its entire gimmick is Hollywood access, industry cameos, and the feeling that the show is both mocking the business and very much caught up in it.

Rogen also took the opportunity to use his Globe moment to showcase the show crew and craft, where he mentions below-the-line talent that assists in providing the series with its particular style (long, choreographed sequences). Such focus is worth noting, as it indicates that The Studio Season 2 will not make the show easier to digest. It is an indication of a promise to continue with the same ambitious approach that made Season 1 so memorable.

The principal cast probably remains the same. That announcement of the Season 2 renewal of The Studio packaged it as a star-driven ensemble built around Rogen, and the very essence of the core group of Season 1 is why the conflicts feel layered rather than episodic in the show. The main cast includes:

Seth Rogen as Matt Remick

Catherine O’Hara as Patty Leigh

Kathryn Hahn as Maya Mason

Ike Barinholtz as Sal Saperstein

Chase Sui Wonders as Quinn Hackett

What was The Studio Season 1 about?

The Studio is a 2025 American satirical comedy series on Apple TV that parodies modern Hollywood and the film industry by telling an inside-baseball story of a struggling movie studio. It was written by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, and Frida Perez, and is based on cringe comedy, satire, workplace dynamics, and celebrity cameos to show how art, business, ego, and creativity meet and clash in Hollywood.

The Studio revolves around Matt Remick, a cinephile who loves movies and has made his entire life about them. Matt has suddenly been offered the position of head of Continental Studios, a once-prestigious Hollywood movie studio, when the movie industry is dominated by brand franchises, corporate demands, and profit-oriented decision-making.

This is a dream job as Matt has the freedom to make meaningful movies and be creative, but in reality, it becomes a battle between his ambitions as an artist and the reality of operating a studio that needs to generate box-office hits.

The main tension of the first season is mostly the clash between the vision of filmmaking in the post-modern era and the principles of blockbuster-driven capitalism. Matt is constantly pressured by executives, financiers, and marketing teams who think of movies only as a commodity rather than as art.

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According to critics and reviewers, the humor and satire of the show arise from revealing the ridiculous habits, bad judgment, and commercial goals within Hollywood, such as executives signing off on derivative projects based on other successes or insisting on films that are likely to yield vast amounts of revenue rather than enrichment of culture.

In all 10 episodes of The Studio Season 1, we track the first weeks and months of Matt as the head of the studio. The show is not about a single storyline, but rather each episode is a new production challenge, an executive dilemma, which throws forward bigger themes in Hollywood.

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