Adults renewed for Season 3 with a bigger 16-episode order – FX has renewed its ensemble comedy Adults for a third season, handing the series 16 episodes and doubling the size of each of its first two seasons.
The expansion makes the renewal more than a routine return. FX is backing the show with twice as much room for its five central friends, while creators Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw have also signed a new overall deal with FX Productions.
For Australian viewers, the first two seasons of Adults are streaming on Disney+. No premiere date for Season 3 has been announced, so the renewal confirms more episodes without yet setting out when the new run will reach audiences.
Why Adults earned a supersized Season 3
Disney says the second season increased its global audience by more than 60 per cent compared with Season 1 across Hulu and Disney+ during its first five weeks. International viewing grew by 100 per cent over the same comparison period.
The new run also gave the first season another lift. Streaming viewing of Season 1 doubled after the release of the standalone prequel episode Marathon Day.
Season 2 was named TCA Approved as one of the organisation’s best shows of the year and holds a 100 per cent Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes. FX says the comedy has also built a committed audience beyond its streaming numbers, inspiring memes and Halloween costumes.
FX Entertainment president Nick Grad said the creators had built a comedy with a strong sense of community.
Ben and Rebecca have elevated ‘Adults’ in every way, earning critical praise and a legion of devoted fans who have embraced the friend group as their own. ‘Adults’ showed significant growth in its sophomore year and we’ve seen the show inspire everything from memes to Halloween costumes, so the decision was easy – more episodes and a new deal at FX for Ben and Rebecca!
Nick Grad, President, FX Entertainment
The cast announces the Adults renewal
The cast shared the news in two official announcement videos.
Watch the official Adults trailer
The official Season 2 trailer offers a look at the five friends and the comic dynamic that helped build the show’s audience.
What Adults is about
Adults follows five twenty-somethings living together in Samir’s childhood home in New York. The comedy tracks their attempts to handle love, work, friendship and family, usually while creating new complications for one another.
Malik Elassal plays Samir, with Lucy Freyer as Billie, Jack Innanen as Paul Baker, Amita Rao as Issa and Owen Thiele as Anton. The show uses that close-knit group to explore the wins, losses and everyday humiliations of being in your twenties.
Kronengold and Shaw said their relationship with FX had developed over more than six years.
We started working with FX over six years ago, back when Paul Baker was but a twinkle in all of our eyes. In the years since, John and the rest of the team have taught us everything we know about how to lead, produce, and tell stories that make people feel like part of a community. They’ve become family, and we’re so glad to make it official — and to start yelling at them like we do our parents.
Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, creators and executive producers
Who makes Adults
Season 2 was executive produced by Kronengold and Shaw, Nick Kroll, Sarah Naftalis, Jonathan Krisel, Alicia Van Couvering and Rob Rosell. FX Productions produces the series.
The 16-episode order gives the writers a substantially larger canvas for the next chapter. However, FX and Disney+ have not yet announced a production timetable, premiere window or episode release plan for Season 3.
For more TV Central Disney+ news, head here. The first two seasons of Adults are available through Disney+ Australia.