Somebody Somewhere is bowing out.
The critically acclaimed, Peabody Award-winning HBO dramedy will end with its forthcoming third season. The final run is set to premiere on Oct. 27.
HBO picked up a third season of the series in June 2023. It began filming soon after the end of last year’s SAG-AFTRA strike (scripts had been completed prior to the writers strike), making it one of the first productions to get running again after writers and actors secured new contracts.
Created by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen and starring Bridget Everett (who’s also a writer and executive producer), Somebody Somewhere centers on Sam (Everett), who moves back to her Kansas hometown and eventually finds her people in a community of outsiders “who don’t fit in but don’t give up,” as the show’s logline puts it.
“It has been the greatest dream to bring this world to life, and to do it with HBO, Bos, Thureen, Everett and executive producer Carolyn Strauss said in a statement. “Kansas Prairie-sized love and thanks to Amy [Gravitt], the entire HBO family, and to the most talented and caring cast and crew. The heart of Somebody Somewhere is friendship, and we will always hold dear the friendships on the screen and those forged behind the camera.”
Added Gravitt, executive vp HBO Programming and head of HBO and Max comedy series, “We are incredibly proud to have collaborated with Bridget, Hannah and Paul on this remarkable exploration of the beauty of everyday life. Though it’s hard to say goodbye to these characters we hold dear, we’re grateful for this journey and the legacy Somebody Somewhere leaves behind.”
Somebody Somewhere is set in and around Manhattan, Kansas — Everett’s hometown — which honored the actress with a “Bridget Everett Day” in 2023. She told The Hollywood Reporter that people there have thanked her, Bos and Thureen for taking care to portray small-town life as it really is.
“I was in Manhattan, Kansas, and we were out at Old Chicago — it was the only place we could get a table that night — and at different points somebody who runs queer studies at Kansas State and the head basketball coach came over to tell me they liked the show,” Everett said. “I found it very satisfying that people from such different walks of life could see themselves in the show and respond well to it. You don’t want your hometown to turn on you and think you’re a big turkey.”
The series also stars Jeff Hiller, Mary Catherine Garrison, Tim Bagley, Murray Hill, Jennifer Mudge, Mercedes White and Meighan Gerachis. Ólafur Darri Ólafsson joined the cast for the final season.
Bos, Thureen, Everett and Strauss (via her Mighty Mint banner) executive produce Somebody Somewhere with Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn of Duplass Brothers Productions and Tyler Romary. Shuli Harel produces. Season three’s writers are Bos and Thureen, Everett, Lisa Kron and Lennon Parham; Jay Duplass, Robert Cohen and Parham directed.
