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‘Vice Principals’ With Danny McBride And Walton Goggins A Comical Hit [Video]

By Nick Younker
Published on: 15:33 PST, Jul 17, 2016

Vice Principals on HBO is the show that is primed to give the premium cable network a major comeback in the comedy genre. With a couple of seasoned cable veterans like Danny McBride and Walton Goggins playing the title roles in Vice Principals, the show has set off a firestorm of potential comedy that is bound to be a major hit for HBO.

What is apparent just from the previews of Vice Principals is that Danny McBride is going to be back in the classroom again with crude humor that some might even see as a little over the top for the comedy legend. But with the addition of Walton Goggins, whose credits include Justified and The Shield, he will be putting some new skills of his to use for the series. This will also mark the fist comedy series for Goggins, if you don’t count his role on Sons of Anarchy where he played the comical transvestite.

But in Vice Principals, McBride and Goggins play two rival Vice Principals at a school that is headed by Bill Murray, presumably in a limited one-episode role. Vice Principals actually premiered tonight on HBO and the series is poised to bring in some major laughs for its audience.

Vice Principals star Danny McBride sat down with Variety to give fans a little added insight into what they can expect out of the HBO show, including his own thoughts on how the show was conceived.

“After we finished Eastbound [and Down] (TV show) and thought about what was next, we really loved working with HBO and loved the idea of telling a longer story,” Danny McBride told Variety. “We couldn’t get a nine hour movie greenlit, so this was a way to tell a nine hour story. Once we started to expand the feature into an 18-episode arc it started to really come alive. The show could take unexpected turns and follow detours for different characters, and see a story in a way you couldn’t have done with a feature.”

For those who are unaware, Vice Principals starts its first season with nine episodes, which is only half of the season. Then Vice Principals will return next year for the rest of Season 1.

“We ended Eastbound in 2013 and we spent all of 2014 writing [Vice Principals]. We had a writers room open for a year and we wrote all 18 episodes before we shot,” Danny McBride said. “And then we spent all of last year shooting it all. We actually delivered the last episode of the whole series to HBO last week. For the first time I’m not thinking about vice principals fighting for a principal job anymore.”

But since Vice Principals is really focused on the adults in this series, there is also a big role for the kids to play in the HBO show. So that meant that McBride and the producers had to find kids that were right for the role and could be useful working on a mature adult series.

“When you’re so far removed from the industry, you have a chance to find kids who are just being themselves and they’re not necessarily vying for acting jobs. That adds a level of realism to the school, so it doesn’t feel like it’s Bayside High or something like that,” McBride told Variety. “The more realistic that world was, the funnier the comedy plays. It was great. We shot the show for almost seven months, and we had to have a lot of extras.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58XtN9ECoPg

Vice Principals airs on Sundays on HBO and the first half of the season will run straight for nine episodes, then the second half of the season will air in 2017.

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