Dropout’s ‘Very Important People’ Sets Season 2 Premiere Date; Five New Guest Stars Join, Including Chris Redd and Paul F. Tompkins (EXCLUSIVE)
Indie streamer Dropout has set the second season premiere date for its Vic Michaelis-hosted comedic interview series “Very Important People,” and revealed five new guest stars joining the lineup for Season 2.
“Very Important People” features Michaelis as the host of a standard talk show series with a twist: all interview subjects receive makeovers before sitting down to chat and then must immediately invent a character to play during the interview.
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New cast members booked for an improvised interview in “Very Important People” Season 2 include John Early (“Search Party”) and Kate Berlant (“Don’t Worry Darling”), Danielle Pinnock (“Ghosts”), Chris Redd (“Saturday Night Live”) and Paul F. Tompkins (“Bojack Horseman”).
Dropout (the paid streaming service owned by the company of the same name, which rebranded from CollegeHumor in 2023) will launch the first episode of “Very Important People” Season 2 Nov. 7. The season will consist of 16 episodes in total.
Throughout the first part of Season 2, four cast members who already appeared on Season 1 will return portraying new characters, including Anna Garcia (“Fly Me to the Moon”), Kimia Behpoornia (“Abbott Elementary”), Jacob Wysocki (“Game Changer”) and Zac Oyama (“Dimension 20”).
Michaelis’ “Very Important People” is among a growing lineup of series offered by Dropout, which is best known for “Game Changer,” “Make Some Noise” and “Dimension 20.” The first season, which aired 12 episodes from December 2023 to May 2024, was a priority push this year in the streamer’s first real FYC Emmys campaign.
“Very Important People” is executive produced by David Kerns, Sam Reich and Michaelis. Co-executive producers on the Dropout series include Tamar Levine, who also directed all Season 2 episodes, Paul Robalino and Kyle Rohrbach. Ebony Elaine Hardin is a supervising producer. Ariel Zucker is a producer.
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