AMC is giving its newest drama series a vote of confidence: The cable and streaming outlet has renewed The Audacity for a second season a month before it starts airing.
The show from Jonathan Glatzer (Succession, Better Call Saul) is set in Silicon Valley and centers on an ambitious tech CEO played by Billy Magnussen. AMC gave The Audacity a series order back in 2024; the show is scheduled to have its world premiere Saturday at the SXSW Festival and will debut April 12 on AMC and AMC+. Gina Mingacci executive produces along with Glatzer.
“Jonathan is one of the smartest, most talented, insightful and human showrunners we’ve ever worked with,” said Dan McDermott, chief content officer of AMC Networks and president of AMC Studios, which is producing The Audacity. “He has created a series that is smart, witty and nuanced, with dynamic characters, and something to say about our world, and this particular world that has such a huge impact on our culture, our economy, and the very lives we are all living. Season one is fantastic, season two can’t come soon enough. Thank you to Jonathan, Gina and the incredible cast and crew of The Audacity for bringing this story and these characters to life.”
The logline for the series reads, “Set inside the bubble of Silicon Valley, The Audacity takes on the warped dreams, outsized egos, and ethical lapses of the self-styled inventors of the future. In a world of jaded billionaires, psychiatrist-gurus, bio-hacked tech bros, AI labs and disillusioned teens being optimized in elite private schools, an audacious data-mining CEO (Magnussen) strives to turn insight and influence into profit and power. The darkly comedic drama confronts reality, privacy, and the delusions fueling our ever-changing world.”
Sarah Goldberg, Zach Galifianakis, Lucy Punch, Simon Helberg, Rob Corddry, Meaghan Rath, Paul Adelstein, Everett Blunck, Thailey Roberge and Ava Marie Telek also star in the series. Lucy Forbes (This Is Going to Hurt) directed the first two episodes of the season.
“From the start, The Audacity exists because Kristin Dolan, Dan McDermott, and AMC Networks decided that ‘playing it safe’ is vastly overrated,” said Glatzer. They’ve enabled me and our fearless cast to dive headfirst into the deep recesses of some beautifully flawed characters, all set against the backdrop of Silicon Valley, which only happens to have the power to shape how we work, argue, date, doomscroll, etc. And now, with this second season pickup, AMC Networks has stood by their conviction with this wholly original satire. As The Audacity‘s creator, I could not be more grateful, but also as a fan of original and slightly dangerous stories, I am ecstatic.”
