Heels Officially Renewed For Season 2 On STARZ

Heels is officially coming back for another season.

On Wednesday, STARZ confirmed Heels has been renewed for a second season.

Variety also reports that Trey Tucker (Bobby Pin) and Robby Ramos (Diego Cottonmouth) have been promoted to series regulars, and Mike O’Malley will return as showrunner and well as for his on-air role of Charlie Gully. Production on the second season will begin next year.

“It’s clear from the critical and fan acclaim that the stories and characters from the Duffy Wrestling League have made a connection with audiences bringing a community that is not often found to premium TV,” said Jeffrey Hirsch, president and CEO of Starz. “I’m excited for our amazing cast and executive producers to get back into the ring together for a second season.”

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— Heels (@HeelsSTARZ) November 3, 2021

Luke Hawx recently spoke with WrestleZone while promoting the first season of Heels and talked about his roles as a wrestling coordinator and on-air character on the show. Noting that CM Punk and lead actor Stephen Amell probably get the most attention from wrestling fans due to their respective connections to the “one true sport,” Hawx went down the list of actors on the show and said there’s so much talent in many aspects, and not just from a wrestling perspective.

“There were so many different people, like [former NFL star and two-time Super Bowl Champion] James Harrison, you wouldn’t have to teach anything, he’d pick it up just by watching. Rooster, Allen Maldonado, phenomenal athlete, extremely hard worker, natural… he’s a natural in the ring, picked things up very quick and did them very athletically. Alexander [Ludwig], he’s a stud, dude. Here’s why I give Xander a lot of credit, along with Stephen, they had the busiest schedules on the show because they’re the two leads. Alison Luff is phenomenal, she comes from Broadway and she’s just a killer, she plays Stephen’s wife on the show,” he explained, “and she knows how to bring it, no matter what emotion she’s trying to draw out of you, she just gets it.”

“Kelli [Berglund] who plays Crystal, another one, just look at the things she’s done, look how far her character’s come in the first six episodes, just wait til the seventh and eighth. But with Xander, he was so busy because he has to act and has to prep so we didn’t have much time to teach him things, so he would come in guns blazing. Like, he would come in and he wanted to do as much as possible and wanted to try to find time, which was almost impossible for him because he had so much going on. So, I really, really want to thank those guys and give kudos where it’s due because they not only had to learn how to wrestle for those parts but they also had to remember their dialogue and do their promotion and photoshoots and table reads and they have families,” Hawx noted, “so then they’d have to go home to their families and do what they had to do over there. It was just a very, very well casted show, I think everyone hit a home run.”

Heels’ first season wrapped up on October 10. Check out more of our cast interviews, including Stephen Amell, Alexander Ludwig, CM Punk, Mike O’Malley, Chris Bauer, Kelli Berglund and more at this link.