After the terrific season 1 finale, Severance fans had to wait three years for the hit Apple TV+ show to return. This time around, that won’t happen again.
Severance director and executive producer Ben Stiller spoke about the sci-fi show with Jason and Travis Kelce on the New Heights podcast. Travis asked Stiller if there would be another three-year wait between seasons. Stiller assures fans that won’t happen again.
“No, no, the plan is not, definitely not,” Stiller said. “No, the plan is not and hopefully we’ll be announcing what the plan is very soon. That will not be that.”
Season 3 has not been officially renewed. However, Apple TV+ renewing Severance for a third season is virtually guaranteed.
The gap between season 1 and season 2 can be attributed to the Hollywood labor stoppages due to the writers’ and actors’ strikes.
Created by Dan Erickson, Severance follows the lives of the severed employees at Lumon Industries. Severed employees undergo a groundbreaking surgical procedure where a person’s memories are divided between their work (“innies) and personal lives (“outies”). ” In season two, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe,” reads the Apple synopsis.
Severance’s cast includes Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Tramell, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, Sarah Bock, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette.
Both seasons of Severance have garnered critical acclaim. Season 1 received 14 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series.
The Severance season 2 finale will be released on Apple TV+ at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday, March 20.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.