Netflix has renewed the dark comedy Dead To Me for a second season.
Starring Christina Applegate as a mourning widow and Linda Cardellini as a friend trying to comfort her, the show arrived on the streaming service in May to critical acclaim.
It holds an 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the review aggregation website.
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Netflix announced its return on Monday, tweeting a picture of its two leading ladies holding up two fingers along with the caption: #DeadToMe has been renewed for Season 2!!”
Creator and executive producer Liz Feldman will return to work on the new season, Netflix said, as will Applegate and Feldman.
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It is unclear if co-star James Mardsen will also be back. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are also listed as executive producers for the 10-episode series.
The show marked Anchorman star Applegate’s first work on TV in seven years and she told the Hollywood Reporter Feldman had to talk her out of “semi-retirement”.
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The mother-of-one said: “It literally took them like dragging me out of my semi-retirement, because I was very happy with my kind of not showering life and doing what I want, and just raising my daughter.
“So, what was it? It was a lot of things.
“It was really a unique premise and show, and I had known Liz Feldman and really loved her as a human being.”
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