Freeform is showing early confidence in their spinoff of The Fosters, Good Trouble. The network has given the series an early season two renewal.
The news was announced Tuesday at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, where executives surprised the cast with the pickup news. The series has been picked up for a 13-episode second season and follows Callie Adams Foster (Maia Mitchell) and Mariana Adams Foster (Cierra Ramirez) as they head off on their own to work in L.A.
Good Trouble, which launched on January 8, has struggled to live up to its Fosters ratings but has shown promising signs of growth. Its most recent telecast surged to a series high among women 18-34 and 18-49 as well as total viewers (632,000). Factoring in three days of DVR, the same episode delivered its biggest increases in adults 18-34 and adults 18-49. Perhaps more important for the social media-driven Freeform, fan engagement continues to be strong as the series draws positive word-of-mouth buzz among the cabler’s key demos.
