United States of Tara picked up for another season
Showtime has ordered 12 more episodes of United States of Tara, the network’s new ratings hit starring Toni Collette, John Corbett and Rosemarie DeWitt. Season two will go into production this summer and premiere early in 2010.
United States of Tara focuses on a wife and mother struggling with dissociative identity disorder and the effect it has on her family. The show often raises the issue of all the roles women are expected to play in their everyday lives, but Toni Collette and the amount of fun she seems to be having with all the alter egos is the main reason to tune in.
The series premiere week of United Stated of Tara reached 2.67 million subscribers, making it the network’s largest since 2004 and outperforming Showtime’s other hit series Weeds, Californication, Dexter and The Tudors in their premiere weeks.
Showtime’s President of Entertainment Robert Greenblatt made the announcement yesterday, saying: “It has been pure pleasure working with Diablo Cody, Toni Collette, Steven Spielberg and everyone at Dreamworks on United States of Tara. This is a perfect fit for our premium brand and we’re thrilled that critics and audiences have responded to this groundbreaking show so well. I look forward to many more alternate personalities emerging from this unique series.”
Diablo Cody, who won an Oscar for Juno last year, wrote the pilot and several other episodes this season and serves an executive producer, along with Steven Spielberg, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank of Dreamworks Television, and Alexa Junge.
United States of Tara airs Sundays at 10 et on Showtime.
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