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Cinemax has renewed Banshee for a second season three weeks into the action series’ freshman run. The second season of the drama, executive produced by Alan Ball, Jonathan Tropper, David Schickler, Peter Macdissi and Greg Yaitanes, will air in 2014. In its Jan. 11 premiere, Banshee drew respectable 483,000 viewers at 10 Pm and 965,000 over three airings. This is the first truly home-grown Cinemax series, having started as a project in development at sibling HBO. It joins Strike Back as the second Cinemax series to score a second-season renewal. Banshee stars Antony Starr as Lucas Hood, an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pa., where he continues his criminal activities, even as he’s hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier. Tropper and Schickler wrote Season 1. They will be joined in Season 2 by writers John Romano (Monk), Evan Dunsky (Nurse Jackie), and Doug Jung (HBO »
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