Casey Bloys Reflects on HBO’s Emmys Dominance, Looks Ahead to 2024 — and 2025

and chief is taking a well earned victory lap. After a grueling 2023 that was disrupted by months long strikes by actors and writers, the executive was over the moon to return to celebrating television — including the final season of . Bloys was especially cheery on Tuesday, the day after HBO 31 Emmys across 11 programs, including a drama series win for the final season of .

In keeping with tradition, Bloys shared a chuckle at what has become a tradition of sorts in the press after an Emmy darling like wraps its run as the narrative then becomes a familiar one: “What will HBO do without _____.” Bloys, though, isn’t worried that HBO hits and won’t return until 2025 as he looks at a stacked 2024 that includes Jodie Foster fronting the new season of and upcoming launches of with Kate Winslet and Robert Downey Jr.

vehicle joining the final season of Read on for more from Bloys about the Emmys and, yes, what’s next for HBO (and its streaming counterpart, Max). I don’t know if it counts as a surprise but it doesn’t feel like anybody was totally surprised! , and went in and came out as favorites. Usually there’s always some left turn but if you’re following the races, this all was expected.

It’s too soon to say that it’s a trend. It happened this year but there’s been years where it has been spread out more. Let’s see what happens next year and the year after. Very low. As with all these things, I leave it to Jesse and the creatives to think about that. It’s not something I see happening.

If Jesse woke up and had a great idea, of course [we’d want it]. I want to do what Jesse wants to do but it’s not something I’m pushing for or something Jesse has any interest in doing. The odds are pretty low. He’s going to take a well deserved break! As with all creators, he has to take a step back from what he just went through.

I find it best to wait on the creators and when they have an idea they’re excited about, they’ll come to us. Like with Craig Mazin — after he came to us with . I’ll give Jesse the time he needs to think and read and live life for his process. I don’t know what he’s doing next. I haven’t read anything.

It may be a package, I don’t know. Given the fact that we came out of [Monday] night with with eight wins and which has been casting for season three, and and , I think we are going to be in very good shape. In however many years’ time when Craig decides he’s told , the question then is what does HBO do after ? ( .) There’s with Jodie Foster, we have an amazing show [ ] with Kate Winslet and with Robert Downey Jr., will be back and we have the final season of .

And I was excited to see broke through with the SAG Awards. We’ve got shows that will do very well. One thing I’m not worried about with is keeping the conversation going. That show has a huge fan base and ended with 30 million viewers an episode. A two year turnaround time is standard for big genre shows.

That’s not something I’m worried about. I’ll leave the teasing to Craig if he wants to tease anything there. Woody isn’t attached. [Creator] Mike White has had conversations with a lot of people and Woody was one of them. One of the issues when you’re shooting overseas is people’s schedules.

You have most of the casting, though there are a couple more roles. But Woody is not one of them. Let’s get through 2024 first! The right mindset for these questions is doing the best show possible and if we end up with multiple nominees, that’s a high class problem. What I’m more concerned about is making the best shows as possible vs.

garnering as many Emmy nominations. The cast has become very popular. Zendaya is a movie star as well as Sydney Sweeney and Jacob Elordi. They’re all getting great parts and doing wonderful things. But that will be up to [creator] Sam Levinson. , series and the prequel are good examples. Sarah Aubrey and her team are trying to focus more on using the Warner Bros.

IP to do big tentpole shows. If I end up with a larger number of tentpole shows, I won’t complain! ( ) Nobody likes to cancel a show. But the fact of the matter is the numbers weren’t there for a renewal. But I will say, whenever we cancel a show, if a creator can set it up elsewhere, we support them.

That is an option for ; it didn’t make sense for us but it might be for someone else. We let the producers know if they can find a home, we’ll be supportive of that. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day More from The Hollywood Reporter.