Docuseries ‘Dear…’ Renewed for Season 2 at Apple

By Rick Porter
The Hollywood Reporter
March 5th, 2021

Viola Davis, Selena Gomez, Billy Porter and Ava DuVernay will be among the subjects for the biographical show.

Apple will profile a new set of famous people with a second season of its biographical series Dear… .

The iPhone maker’s Apple TV+ has picked up the show for a 10-episode run, which is set to air later this year. R.J. Cutler, who's coming off Apple’s documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, returns as executive producer.

Dear… is based on Apple’s “Dear Apple” shorts and profiles celebrities and influential people via a series of letters written by people whose lives have been changed by their work. Subjects for the second season are award-winning actors Viola Davis, Jane Fonda, Billy Porter and Sandra Oh; actress, singer and producer Selena Gomez; filmmaker Ava DuVernay; former Vogue creative director Andre Leon Talley; renowned surfer Laird Hamilton; and NBA all-time leading scorer (and Hollywood Reporter columnist) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

The first season of the show profiled Spike Lee, Oprah Winfrey, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Gloria Steinem, among others.

Cutler executive produces Dear… with Jane Cha, Todd Lubin, Jay Peterson and Donny Jackson. The show comes from Matador Content, a Boat Rocker company.

Dear… is part of a roster of unscripted series and documentaries at Apple TV+ that also includes Boys State, Home, Visible: Out on Television, Beastie Boys Story and Werner Herzog’s Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds.