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No decision has been made yet on whether TNT is picking up a second season of AEW's first-ever reality series Rhodes to the Top, starring Cody and Brandi Rhodes.
During an interview today with Deadline.com, Brett Weitz, General Manager, TNT, TBS, and truTV was asked if a decision had been made to pickup the series for a sophomore season.
Weitz responded, "No. Not yet. It just ran and finished, and we’re settling in with numbers. You know this, Nellie, to just go Live+Same Day is so antiquated. You want to see how things are consumed on VOD and see how things continue to play out."
The first season debuted in late September, running for six half-hour episodes that covered the birth of Cody and Brandi's first child Liberty, strife within the Rhodes family towards Brandi, Cody's feuds with Anthony Ogogo and Malakai Black, among other stories.
Several weeks ago, while sitting down with PWInsider.com, Cody discussed the possibility of a season two, commenting, " Well, if things turn out to have a second season and the show has really superseded its current expectations, so that that's a possibility. If that happens, I'd actually probably have less guidelines and less involvement because the crew really did justice by AEW and by Brandi and I and my legacy and my dad's name, they really did. They were authentic and then my mother and my sister are on the show, my brother. So I'd probably have less headaches and less opinions and just let them lead. Sometimes in AEW Billy told me, this it's the best thing he ever told me, he said, sometimes you just got to let talented people be talented. And I would really look forward to that. I do a lot of projects Mike, and I don't think people understand so many of those projects are, I hope they take the minute to understand so many of those projects are related to AEW. and they're meant to drive towards AEW. I'm always the wrestler. That's my first priority other than my family, that's my first priority. But with shows like this, if we're talking realistically, I don't want to continue to compete full time after 40 and I would love a second season of Rhodes to the Top and I would love if that led to more opportunities. I don't want Arn to shoot me, but more opportunities out in Hollywood for me just so that I can make that transition and not be an old man wrestler. And that's not because I don't love and respect old man wrestlers, it's because I had one, I had a father who did this all the way to the end and I want a different life and it wasn't that it was bad, it wasn't that it was good, he always gave us everything he had, but I thought he had earned enough that he didn't have to do that, and I mean equity, not finance. I thought he had earned enough. So when I look at my future, I want to secure everything in that place where I can step away gracefully and you've got Dante Martin, ypu've got Lee Moriarty, you've got Lee Johnson, you have Julia Hart, Anna Jay, you have these young, next generation of wrestlers that can step into their roles and keep our business moving and the wheel and the sky turning."
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