Kenny Powers is back on the mound: Eastbound & Down, HBO's baseball comedy series, has been renewed for a second season, the network announced.
The show, starring Danny McBride as Powers, a washed-up, self-destructive pitcher, will return ...
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Baseball has had it rough this week, and it's about to get even rougher on Sunday when Eastbound & Down (10:30 pm/ET, HBO) hits the airwaves and introduces the world to the man, the myth, the legend that is Kenny Powers. Washed-up, cocky, uncensored and 100 percent redneck, Powers (Danny McBride) is a former hot-shot pitcher who finds himself back in his North Carolina hometown teaching gym after hitting the skids. McBride (Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder) created the six-episode series with his college buddies Jody Hill and Ben Best, and chatted with TVGuide.com about the comedy's inspiration, his awesome hairstyles and why it's about time the bad guy finishes first.
TVGuide.com: Did you always want to do TV?
Danny McBride: I made The Foot Fist Way with [Hill and Best], and at the time, we would watch a lot of ...
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