[WATCH] Mythic Quest discards season 2 trailer, reveals debut date – TCA – Deadline

(Updated with more from the TCA panel) “First job for new partners’, proclaims Rob McElhenney in the new AppleTV + trailer Mythic Quest that fell today in the virtual TCA. “Clean Slate, fresh start,” McElhenney co-creator Ian Grimm said to newly promoted co-creative director Poppy Li, played by Charlotte Nicdao – or not.

Part of this new beginning for Mythic Quest, on and off the screen, was dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Running on the CBS Radford lot in Studio City last fall, the workplace comedy had positive results on the Covid-19 test between the team, broadcasts and interruptions prevented the production of its second season.

“There were only certain realities, we knew when we decided to make the decision to come back,” It’s always sunny in Philadelphia ‘ veterinarian McElhenney admitted during today’s virtual panel. “We knew that nothing is 100% safe and we knew that we could do the best we could … you can’t police everyone all the time,” he added.

Emphasizing that there were “tests up to five times a week” on the 200-person pool and extensive safety protocols in place, McElhenney added about the positive test results and interrupted that “a lot of that was really unfortunate and we were just doing our best.”

“It was very comforting,” said co-star F. Murray Abraham of the protocols, which for the 81-year-old Oscar winner were obviously essential.

Facing backlash at the end of last year for perhaps returning to production too soon for its second season in early 2020 Mythic Quest in fact, it was one of the first programs to incorporate the pandemic into its narrative. On May 22 last year, the series released a special episode of Covid-19, written, filmed and edited in quarantine. Diving into the frustrations and freedom of working at home, the episode was entirely shot on iPhones, as you would expect from an AppleTV + production

Friday’s panel also announced that the second season of McElhenney, Charlie Day and Megan Ganz created the workplace comedy premiere on May 7. As the trailer above makes clear, coming out of the coronavirus quarantine and trying to revitalize the video game studio, things are chaotic, to say the least, for the Mythic Quest team – or, as they say during the trailer, “I miss remote work”.

EP McElhenney, Nicdao and Abraham were accompanied on today’s panel by co-stars David Hornsbyas, as well as executive producer Ganz.

Renewed for the second time before the premiere of the first season last year, Mythic Quest is executive produced by It’s always sunny in Philadelphia ‘s McElhenney and Day under their RCG banner; Michael Rotenberg and Nicholas Frenkel of 3Arts; and Jason Altman, Danielle Kreinik and Gérard Guillemot for Ubisoft Film & Television. Hornsby and Ganz are also executive producers. The series is produced by Lionsgate, 3 Arts Entertainment and Ubisoft.