Second Season of Hulu Irish Comedy ‘Obituary’ in the Works (EXCLUSIVE)

Irish comedy “Obituary” is prepping for a second season, Variety has learned.

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The popular black comedy, which features Siobhán Cullen as an underpaid obituarist who turns to murder, is written by Ray Lawlor.

The plan is for Season 2 to run to six episodes, Variety understands, with Lawlor returning to helm the script. The show’s original producers — Magamedia and APC Studios — are once again involved, while Hulu is contributing funding.

Casting hasn’t yet been confirmed but it seems unlikely the show would return without lead star Cullen, who has also recently appeared in “The Dry” and Netflix series “Bodkin.”

The first season of “Obituary,” which aired on Irish network RTE, followed Cullen as obituary writer Elvira Clancy, who takes matters into her own hands when her work begins drying up. Soon a crime correspondent at the local paper starts investigating the murders — and falling for Clancy.

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Michael Smiley (“Bad Sisters”), Danielle Galligan (“Shadow and Bone”), Ronan Rafferty (“The Rook”), David Ganly (“Body of Lies”) and Noni Stapleton also starred in Season 1.

“24-year-old Elvira Clancy is feeling a little unfulfilled, although she adores her new job writing obituaries, but when her newspaper falls on hard times and her boss cuts her salary, she finds herself being paid per obituary overnight,” the logline for the show reads. “When she ‘accidentally’ kills a nasty piece of work in the town, she discovers she might have a previously untapped bloodlust! She relishes using ever more crafty methods to kill off the town’s unpleasant residents while making them look like accidents. Stalk. Kill. Publish. Repeat. Unfortunately, a wrench lands in the works – the paper hires a suspicious new crime correspondent and she really, really likes him…”

The show, which is shot in Donegal, aired on RTE in Ireland last September followed by Hulu in November. Directed by John Hayes (“Dublin Murders”) and Oonagh Kearney (“Vardy vs Rooney”), it was favorably compared to “Dexter” and a number of awards at the Irish Film and Television Awards, including for best drama series and best actress.

Reps for Hulu didn’t respond by press time.

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