HBO Cancels HERE AND NOW After First Season

According to Variety, HBO has decided to not renew the Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins led HERE AND NOW for a second season. Read more about the news from Variety here.

In a statement, HBO says, "After careful consideration we have decided not to move forward with a second season of 'Here and Now. We thank Alan for his dedication to innovative storytelling, and we look forward to his next endeavor."

From Oscar and Emmy winner Alan Ball, and starring Oscar and Golden Globe winner Tim Robbins and Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Holly Hunter, the show is a provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family - a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia, and their sole biological child - and a contemporary Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children