How Did ‘The Studio’ Season 1 End? Creators Tease What’s Next

Kelli Boyle May 21, 2025, 10:50 am

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Fans of The Studio have more treats in store after the Wednesday, May 21, finale. The Apple TV+ series has been renewed for Season 2, and The Studio creators have already shared some details about what they want to cover next season.

On The Studio, Seth Rogen stars as Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of embattled Continental Studios. As movies struggle to stay alive and relevant, Matt and his core team of infighting executives battle their insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films. With their power suits masking their never-ending sense of panic, every party, set visit, casting decision, marketing meeting, and award show presents them with an opportunity for glittering success or career-ending catastrophe. As someone who eats, sleeps, and breathes movies, it’s the job Matt’s been pursuing his whole life, and it may very well destroy him.

Here’s a breakdown of The Studio Season 1 finale with the show’s creators, plus what to expect in The Studio Season 2.

How did The Studio Season 1 end?

The Studio stars Rogen alongside Catherine O’Hara, Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz, and Chase Sui Wonders, with recurring guest star Bryan Cranston. The series also features a lineup of cameos from some of Hollywood’s most iconic actors, directors, and producers throughout the season, like Martin Scorsese, Sarah Polly, Ron Howard, Anthony Mackie, Ice Cube, and more. It pulls from real experiences in the business and parodies them.

The series grabbed viewers’ attention with Scorsese’s extended cameo in Episode 1 and has continued to be hailed as one of the best new comedies of 2025 by critics.

The Studio Season 1 is now available in full on Apple TV+. The Studio Season 1 Episode 1o, “The Presentation,” came out on May 21. In it, Matt and his team had to pull off an amazing CinemaCon presentation. If they didn’t, the studio would be sold to a tech company. Thankfully, they pulled it off with little help from Continental boss Griffin Mill (Cranston), who took so many shrooms that he was loopy beyond belief and running amok around Las Vegas.

Zoë Kravitz and Dave Franco were also high out of their minds from Matt’s shrooms, but miraculously pulled themselves together to be able to give successful previews of their Continental films. The grand finale was another tease of the tentpole Kool-Aid movie featuring an actor in a Kool-Aid man costume descending from the ceiling on wires. Cranston, still high, was in the costume and delighted the cheering crowd.

Seth Rogen as Matt Remmick in 'The Studio' Season 1 finale, 'The Presentation'

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The Studio creators Peter Huyck and Frida Perez tell TV Insider that getting that scene with Cranston on the fountain in the Vegas strip was one of the finale’s most challenging scenes to film. They realized they were “going to have a take or two before crowds start gathering,” Huyck says. “They’re going to look and say, ‘Bryan Cranston is wearing a turtleneck and he has a mustache and he’s standing 15 feet up in this giant, giant fountain.'” And it was “115 degrees” out to boot.

“We rolled first thing in the morning, and there weren’t too many people. They saw it was a production. And then as we started rolling a few takes, you could see crowds and we have security keeping them back. But it did reach a point where we started realizing like, oh, people are just going to start yelling. We’re not going to be able to get the audio on these takes because it’s getting louder and it’s getting hotter. And then there’s a stunt where he falls out of it, so we had a lot of pieces that had to come together perfectly. We got very lucky and we got them.”

Is The Studio renewed for Season 2?

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Yes! Apple TV+ announced the renewal on Tuesday, May 6. Rogen and co-creator and fellow executive producer Evan Goldberg joked that they’re ready to make “10 more seasons” of The Studio (truly, the comedy’s format allows it to go on forever).

“We’re thrilled to be making a second season of The Studio. We’re looking forward to taking the lived experience of making Season 1 and immediately putting it into Season 2, then repeating that loop for 10 more seasons,” said creators and executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. “And, we’re excited to keep all our industry friends and colleagues guessing as to when one of their personal stories will stream on Apple TV+.”

“Seth, Evan, the entire creative team and cast of The Studio have knocked it out of the park with this brilliant show, and it has been incredible to watch the conversation grow with each new episode,” said Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+. “We can’t wait to see where Matt Remick takes Continental Studios in Season 2, and hope for his sake that the Kool-Aid movie crushes at the box office.”

Hailing from Lionsgate Television, The Studio is created by multi-Emmy Award winners Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory, along with Rogen, Goldberg, and Frida Perez. Point Grey Pictures’ James Weaver executive produce the show along with the creators. Alex McAtee and Josh Fagen also serve as executive producers.

When does The Studio Season 2 premiere?

So far, there’s no details on when The Studio Season 2 will begin production. A premiere date will be announced at a later time.

What happens in The Studio Season 2?

Catherine O'Hara and Seth Rogen in 'The Studio' Season 1 Episode 8, 'Golden Globes'

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Huyck and Perez previously told TV Insider that there was an episode written for Season 1 that needed a very specific cameo in order to work. The schedules didn’t work out to get that star on set, so the episode wasn’t created. But they’re holding it for Season 2. A different celebrity they’re hoping would be interested in appearing in the second season is a Beatle, who they’ve been told is a fan, along with another iconic director.

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“We’d heard through the grapevine that Paul McCartney is a fan of the show,” Huyck told TV Insider. “So immediately, we said, if this is true — and again, it was someone reporting that back to us — we will obviously immediately try and write a part for him if we get a second season and include him because that’s one of the coolest things you could ever hear. Sometimes you hear those things, and it usually comes from Seth and Evan because they know all the famous folks and are like, ‘Do you know who likes the show? Steven Spielberg likes the show.’ We’re like, well, if Steven Spielberg likes the show, hello, Season 2? If we get it, we could try and write a part for him. That’d be amazing.”

“I think it’d be fun, we have a lot of discussions to do, but I think to see Kool-Aid become a massive hit, it’d be kind of interesting if it became a Barbie-type success and to see Matt Remmick actually succeed.”

“I’m excited for maybe festivals, hitting the festival circuit. I think that would be really fun, going international, maybe releasing a movie,” adds Perez. “We haven’t really seen a movie be released in the show yet. There’s so much. And you could also repeat things because every release is different, every festival is different for every movie. So, I think you could have fun doing different versions of the same thing, but also just doing everything under the sun basically in this whole business.”

They also want their “wealth of players” to return in the second season.

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