Hulu Renews ‘Only Murders in the Building’ for Second Season | THR News - video Dailymotion

The Steve Martin-Martin Short-Selena Gomez comedy scores a pickup just two weeks after its debut on the streamer.

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00:00I got in the elevator with these two weirdos.

00:02Then Tim got in the elevator.

00:07Approximately 12 minutes from now, I will be murdered.

00:10Only Murderers in the Building, starring Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short,

00:14has been renewed for a second season at Hulu.

00:17The comedy sees the trio play residents of a New York apartment building

00:20who come together when a fellow tenant suffers a grisly death.

00:23The renewal comes two weeks and four episodes into the show's eight-episode first season.

00:28I can't stop thinking about this.

00:29Neither can I.

00:30We should do our own true crime podcast.

00:33We're gonna go down there and look around for clues.

00:35You wanna come?

00:37Gomez celebrated the pickup on her Instagram story, writing,

00:40So ready for this, season two.

00:42And Martin tweeted,

00:43We've been picked up for a second season.

00:45That means another year of dieting, weightlifting, and memory pills for Steve.

00:49Hulu says the series had the highest premiere day tune-in for any comedy series,

00:53original or acquired, in the history of the platform.

00:56The show has also earned a very positive critical response

00:59and strong rankings from viewers on review aggregators Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes.

01:03I think we're onto something big here.

01:05And these are?

01:06Candid photos I took of our neighbors.

01:08Why are they all selfies?

01:09So I don't draw suspicion.

01:12The show's first season is slated to conclude on October 5th.

01:16For more on this story, go to THR.com.

01:18For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.