Ahead of Its U.S. Premiere, The CW Picks Up a Second Season of 'Everyone Else Burns'

Ahead of the U.S. premiere of its first season, The CW has picked up apocalypse comedy Everyone Else Burns for Season 2. British network Channel 4 officially renewed the series earlier this year, but this is the first official word that The CW is planning to air its second outing.

The comedy, which follows the story of a Manchester family who also just happens to be members of an apocalyptic religious sect known as The Order, stars Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners) as misguided family patriarch David, who still believes the world is going to end within the next decade and is struggling to keep his family focused on the hereafter when they still have to deal with plenty of secular problems in the here and now.

The series' first season sees David longing for a promotion within the church, while his long-suffering wife Fiona (Kate O'Flynn) is busy dreaming of a life that contains more than sermons and squash. The family's twelve-year-old son Aaron (Harry Connor) is a model young believer --- on the surface, at least. (His drawings regularly feature the whole family burning in hell.) And teenage Rachel (Amy James-Kelly) is anxious about everything, with a crush on someone who could save her social life, but also maybe damn her soul.