Macon-filmed ‘Brockmire’ renewed for second season

IFC’s new comedy “Brockmire,” which was filmed at Macon’s Luther Williams Field, is coming back for another season.

Deadline reported that the baseball-themed show ranks as the network’s highest-rated new series, as well as cable’s most time-shifted new comedy. The comedy stars Hank Azaria as Jim Brockmire, a former Major League Baseball announcer who’s trying to save his career after an on-air breakdown. It has averaged more than 500,000 live-plus-three-day viewers and 8 million overall.

IFC will run a marathon of the first season prior to the show’s season finale, which airs Wednesday at 10 p.m. The second season will air in 2018.

This story was originally published May 16, 2017 at 12:38 PM with the headline "Macon-filmed ‘Brockmire’ renewed for second season."