Hacks is beefing up the ranks before its imminent return. The Emmy-winning Max comedy announced Tuesday the addition of 13 new guest stars planned for the fourth season — including those populating the writers room on Deborah Vance’s (Jean Smart) new late-night talk show.
Toplining the new faces are Julianne Nicholson, Michaela Watkins, Bresha Webb, Robby Hoffman and Eric Balfour, while Danny Jolles, Gavin Matts, Grover Whitmore, III, Holmes, Jasmine Ashanti, Katy Sullivan, Matt Oberg and Sandy Honig will guest as the Deborah’s new writers — all of whom will presumably report to Hannah Einbinder‘s Ava.
In the season three finale, Ava blackmailed Deborah into giving her the head writer gig on her new show. The season four logline doesn’t give much, saying only “tensions rise as Deborah and Ava endeavor to get their late night show off the ground and make history doing it.” Tensions indeed…
Hacks returns at some point this spring following an exceptionally successful third season. Not only did Smart win her third consecutive best actress in a comedy trophy for her work on the show, the series topped heavy competition (i.e. The Bear) to win top comedy.
Still showrun by creators Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky, returning cast members joining Smart and Einbinder include Downs, Megan Stalter, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Mark Indelicato and Rose Abdoo as well as Dan Bucatinsky, Helen Hunt, Tony Goldwyn, Kaitlin Olson, Jane Adams and Lauren Weedman.