Good information, Pynk Posse: two months after concluding its second season, Katori Hall’s strip membership drama “P-Valley” has been renewed by Starz. The premium cable community has renewed its most-watched U.S. collection for a 3rd season, per The Hollywood Reporter.
An adaptation of Hall’s play “Pussy Valley,” the TV collection follows the lives of the workers working at The Pynk, a strip membership situated within the fictional metropolis of Chucalissa, Mississippi.
“P-Valley” stars Brandee Evans (“B-Boy Blues”) as Mercedes Woodbine, The Pynk’s headliner who desires to open her personal dance gymnasium; Nicco Annan (“This Is Us”) as Uncle Clifford Sayles, the membership’s non-binary proprietor and proprietor attempting to rescue The Pynk out of dire monetary straits; and Shannon Thornton (“FBI”) as Keyshawn “Miss Mississippi” Harris, a dancer and influencer who’s experiencing home abuse.
“With its complex, dynamic, and beautifully flawed characters, this show is a love letter to marginalized communities in the American South who rarely see themselves reflected on screen, and it brings me immense joy to know that it has been embraced by folx worldwide,” mentioned Hall, who created, showruns, and exec produces “P-Valley”. She emphasised, “We wouldn’t be getting back up on that pony, without our fiercely devoted Pynk Posse. Y’all are our fire.”
Kathryn Busby, Starz president of unique programming, added, “’P-Valley’ continues to keep viewers on the edge of their seats as it captures the nuances of the Mississippi Delta with an unprecedented level of humanity and artistry. This layered drama gets beyond the glitz through authentic and complex characters that have captured the hearts of critics and audiences alike.”
Busby’s reward is probably finest exemplified by Season 2’s “Jackson” episode, which aired precisely one month after Roe v. Wade was overturned. The July 24 episode sees Mercedes guiding her pregnant teen daughter Terricka (Azaria Carter) by means of all of the choices obtainable to her, the 2 embarking on a street journey for a session at a ladies’s clinic on the state capital. “While never explicitly named in the show, the obvious inspiration of the clinic was ‘The Pink House’ or Jackson Women’s Health Organization, whose real-life legal battles waged with the state of Mississippi set the stage for the overturning of Roe v. Wade,” Hall had mentioned.
Fully women-directed, “P-Valley’s” 10-episode sophomore season averaged practically 10.3 million viewers per episode by way of linear TV, VOD, and streaming mixed – a powerful 23 p.c enhance from its debut season, which was additionally totally women-directed.
A adorned playwright, Hall’s different works embrace “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” a stage manufacturing in regards to the iconic performer that Hall wrote and produced, and “The Hot Wing King,” which follows a pair and their mates as they put together to compete within the annual Hot Wang Festival. The latter earned Hall the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.