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June 4, 2021 12:13pm PT
HBO Chief Casey Bloys on ‘Mare of Easttown’ and WarnerMedia-Discovery Shakeup: ‘We Just Keep Doing Our Thing’
'Mare' creator Brad Ingelsby sets exclusive overall deal for TV
By Cynthia Littleton
“Though all the mergers and reorganizations, the HBO team has stayed steady together. A lot of us have been together longer than 15 years,” Bloys tells Variety. “We just keep doing our thing trying to deliver on that brand promise for HBO. When a show like ‘Mare’ comes along and feels like it’s hitting on all cylinders, it’s really gratifying.”
HBO was so impressed with “Mare” that it has set a three-year exclusive overall deal for TV with Brad Ingelsby, the veteran screenwriter who created the series and served as showrunner and executive producer. Ingelsby brought the project to HBO with Winslet on board. Bloys hadn’t worked with Ingelsby before but the experience on “Mare” was so strong that they were eager to keep him in the fold for TV.
“Mare of Easttown” creator Brad Ingelsby Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
“Brad just did a fantastic job on ‘Mare,’ “ Bloys said. “It was a great collaboration.”
The new deal is sure to whip up more speculation about a possible second installment of “Mare,” which features Winslet as a police detective working in a small hardscrabble town in Pennsylvania. The series was conceived a one-and-done limited series, and Bloys is doing his best to temper expectations for a Season 2, but there’s also no question that the door is not firmly shut, either.
HBO Chief Casey Bloys on ‘Mare of Easttown’ and WarnerMedia-Discovery Shakeup: ‘We Just Keep Doing Our Thing’
'Mare' creator Brad Ingelsby sets exclusive overall deal for TV
By Cynthia Littleton
“Though all the mergers and reorganizations, the HBO team has stayed steady together. A lot of us have been together longer than 15 years,” Bloys tells Variety. “We just keep doing our thing trying to deliver on that brand promise for HBO. When a show like ‘Mare’ comes along and feels like it’s hitting on all cylinders, it’s really gratifying.”
HBO was so impressed with “Mare” that it has set a three-year exclusive overall deal for TV with Brad Ingelsby, the veteran screenwriter who created the series and served as showrunner and executive producer. Ingelsby brought the project to HBO with Winslet on board. Bloys hadn’t worked with Ingelsby before but the experience on “Mare” was so strong that they were eager to keep him in the fold for TV.
“Mare of Easttown” creator Brad Ingelsby Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
“Brad just did a fantastic job on ‘Mare,’ “ Bloys said. “It was a great collaboration.”
The new deal is sure to whip up more speculation about a possible second installment of “Mare,” which features Winslet as a police detective working in a small hardscrabble town in Pennsylvania. The series was conceived a one-and-done limited series, and Bloys is doing his best to temper expectations for a Season 2, but there’s also no question that the door is not firmly shut, either.