FX’s hit comedy series English Teacher is reportedly nearing a Season 2 renewal despite the bombshell report alleging series creator and star Brian Jordan Alvarez sexually assaulted a former colleague.
TVLine reports multiple sources confirmed the network is close to renewing the show for a second season with production tentatively set to resume later this month.
The FX series stars Alvarez as a high school English teacher navigating life as a queer man while surrounded by his eccentric colleagues and students. Stephanie Koenig, Enrico Colantoni and Sean Patton also star in the workplace comedy.
The show became a darling of the fall television slate, offering a more adult version of the lighthearted humor Abbott Elementary brings to ABC. But weeks after the show concluded its first season, Alvarez’s former colleague, Jon Ebeling, alleged in a bombshell Vulture report that the actor sexually assaulted him while filming the web series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo.
A spokesperson for Alvarez denied the claims in a statement shared with Decider, claiming Alvarez’s interactions with Ebeling were “always entirely consensual – as numerous witnesses have attested.”
In the report, Ebeling claimed he felt “insane pressure” from the English Teacher star to be intimate. He also alleged that Alvarez once performed oral sex on him without his consent while filming the web series.
“I am assuming nobody on set knows what’s going on under the comforter, and I’m just frozen,” Ebeling told the publication. “I didn’t know what to do. I’m on set with my director, who is assaulting me. It was a horrible feeling.”
Alvarez’s lawyer claimed Alvarez believed the incident was consensual. “This was the performative Kabuki theater of a self-described manipulator, who was distorting the situation to ingratiate himself to [Koenig],” Kump said to Vulture, adding that Alvarez believed “Mr. Ebeling was fine with it” and “consented verbally” before filming, which Ebeling denied.
Ebeling filed a police report with the LAPD in September 2024 and reported Alvarez to the Screen Actors Guild.
English Teacher is streaming now on Hulu.
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