Sky acquires Hacks from Universal
January 27, 2025
Sky has acquired seasons 3 & 4 of multi-Emmy-winning comedy series Hacks in the UK. Brand new to UK screens, Season 3 of the US fan-favourite will exclusively launch on Sky and streaming service NOW on February 7th.
Seasons 1 and 2 will also be available alongside the third instalment, allowing fans to catch-up ahead of the fourth season later this year.
Hacks explores a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old (Hannah Einbinder). Hacks is created and showrun by Emmy winners Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky. It is executive produced by Downs and Aniello via their Paulilu banner, Statsky via First Thought Productions, as well as Emmy winners Michael Schur via Fremulon, David Miner for 3 Arts Entertainment and Morgan Sackett.
The studio is Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
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