‘The Five Star Weekend’ Renewed For Season 2 By Peacock, See Which Actors Are Poised To Return
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- Peacock renewed The Five Star Weekend for a second season, with the show having accumulated 2.1 billion minutes watched since its July 9 premiere to become the streamer's No. 1 scripted series of all time in overall reach.
- The show was originally announced as a limited series, but options were put in place from the start for Jennifer Garner, D'Arcy Carden, Regina Hall, and Chloë Sevigny to return; Gemma Chan is not on the list, with Deadline noting her character's story arc explains the absence.
- No deals are in place for Harlow Jane (as Hollis' daughter Caroline) and Timothy Olyphant (as love interest Jack) to return full-time in the new season.
- The Season 1 finale planted a Season 2 hook when Brooke suggested the women make the getaway an annual event, pitching Greece as the next destination — a divergence from Elin Hilderbrand's source novel, whose epilogue features an Italian trip.
- Bekah Brunstetter, the series creator, will return as executive producer alongside Sue Naegle, Ali Krug, Minkie Spiro, Garner, Merri Howard, Beth Schacter, and Hilderbrand, with Universal Global Television producing.
- Hilderbrand's underlying novel is currently ranked among the Top 10 on The New York Times bestsellers list, and the series is expected to land among the Top 5 streaming originals on upcoming Nielsen charts.
- Lisa Katz, President of Scripted Content at NBC & Peacock, framed the renewal as a story of audiences embracing 'what it means to reconnect with the people in your life who truly make a difference.'
Why it matters: Peacock is converting a planned limited series into an ongoing property on the strength of 2.1 billion minutes watched — a rare summer-debut haul that turned the adaptation into the streamer's most-watched scripted series ever. The unfinished deals for Jane and Olyphant, plus the finale's pivot to Greece rather than the novel's Italian epilogue, signal the show is being positioned as a destination-anchored franchise rather than a strict literary adaptation.
