10 Upcoming New HBO Series To Be Excited About

8. Vice Principals

The team behind HBO's hit sports comedy Eastbound & Down, Jody Hill and Danny McBride, are reuniting to produce another sitcom for the cable channel. Vice Principals will, as the name suggests, focus on the people who aren't quite running the school.

It'll be set at the fictional Lincoln High School, with McBride playing Neal Gamby, the divorced Vice Principal of discipline. Busy Phillips (Freaks and Geeks) will be playing his ex-wife, and Boardwalk Empire's Shea Whigham her new husband. The Shield actor Walton Goggins will be the other VP, of curriculum, and he and McBride will be teaming up to take down the Principal, played by Da'vine Joy Randolph.

If this were a network comedy it may not sound as interesting, but on HBO they'll be able to take it in directions you wouldn't be able to elsewhere, meaning there's much more humour they can find in the situation, while there's also the hope Hill and McBride can repeat the trick of Eastbound & Down.

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