In bringing his musical comedy Schmigadoon! back for a second season on Apple TV+, Cinco Paul knew he wanted to go to all new places. “I didn’t want to go back to Schmigadoon, as much as I love Schmigadoon,” the show’s co-creator, writer said at Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event. “The idea was always that if we got another season, I wanted to go into the ’60s and ’70s musicals.
As much as I love Rodgers and Hammerstein, these are the musicals I’m passionate about — Sweeney and Pippin and Chicago. It’s just a great contrast to the first season, right?
Where it’s darker, it’s sexier, it’s grittier, it’s scarier in every way.” The show co-created by Ken Daurio, in its first season, introduced viewers to Melissa (Cecily Strong) and Josh (Keegan-Michael Key), a pair of New York doctors grappling with relationship issues.
While on a backpacking trip, they come upon a magical town called Schmigadoon that’s forever trapped in a musical of a bygone era, finding that they won’t be able to leave until they find true love.
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