Paramount+ has renewed the animated preschool series Dora for a second season.
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Lessons in Chemistry star and executive producer Brie Larson, showrunner and executive producer Lee Eisenberg, and show’s co-stars Lewis Pullman and Aja Naomi King were at Deadline’s Contenders TV event Sunday to discuss the Apple TV+ limited drama series and the potential for a second season.
Based on Bonnie Garmus’ best-selling debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry, is set in the early 1950s and follows Elizabeth Zott (Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives – and the men who are suddenly listening – a lot more than recipes, all the while craving a return to her true love: science.
“It was the best working experience I’ve ever had, so selfishly, I want to keep working with them for as long as I can,” Eisenberg said. “If it’s Lessons in Chemistry season 2, then great. And if it’s something else, great. But it really felt like we reached the end of the story. We have no plans for a season 2.”
Larson, who signed on to star and executive produced the series in 2021, doubled down on the drama’s conclusion.
“We finished the book,” she said.
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After reading the novel, published in March 2022, Eisenberg said he became “completely obsessed.” The showrunner reached out to Apple and asked if there were any job openings on the series.
“In very short order, I was on a Zoom call with Brie, and then we were just off to the races,” he said.
Larson said that mastering the language of chemistry and conveying it on screen in layman’s terms was a “great challenge.”
“I get to be in the position to
Paramount+ has renewed the animated preschool series Dora for a second season.
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