Lanterns Season 2: "I Fell Asleep During the Logo"

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What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: Variety.

1. Vera BullockHere is the story. Variety reports that HBO's Lanterns has not been renewed for a second season.

2. Vera BullockDC Studios co-chief Peter Safran says it depends on the writers' room coming up with a worthy successor to a great first season.

3. Cassius NdiayeA worthy successor. Vera, that is the hardest thing in the world to write, and I say that as someone who has been near writers.

4. Vera BullockNear them.

5. Cassius NdiayeClose enough to hear them sigh. Between you and me, and the whole internet, I have had a few notes.

6. Vera BullockNotes for the writers' room of a show you are not in. Tell us about your new film instead.

7. Cassius NdiayeIt is a gripping drama about a man who inherits a lighthouse and a very confusing mortgage. I play the lighthouse.

8. Vera BullockYou play the building?

9. Cassius NdiayeI play the light, Vera. It is a lot of standing still while people project onto me. Very demanding.

10. Vera BullockLet me ask you directly. Have you actually watched Lanterns all the way through?

11. Cassius NdiayeI have absorbed Lanterns. It lives in me, the way a good soup lives in a bowl.

12. Vera BullockThat is a no. I am asking whether you watched it, and you answered with soup.

13. Cassius NdiayeFine. I saw the trailer. Between you and me, and the whole internet, I fell asleep during the logo.

14. Vera BullockThe logo.

15. Cassius NdiayeIt was a long day, and the music was very soothing. I have never told anyone that.

16. Vera BullockNow we have a lightning round. One word each. Season two of Lanterns, yes or no?

17. Cassius NdiayeYes. Unless the writers say no, and then absolutely not.

18. Vera BullockFavorite sequel of all time?

19. Cassius NdiayeThe second half of any sandwich. Nothing tops it.

20. Vera BullockLast one. If you could give the Lanterns writers one note, what is it?

21. Cassius NdiayeMake it shorter. Hush Money Lullaby opens Friday, and I would love to see the trailer for season two before then.