XO, Kitty continues: Netflix renews Anna Cathcart's teenage drama for the second season

The second season of XO, Kitty has been renewed on Netflix. The series premiered on May 18, so this news arrives about a month after the premiere. With 72.1 million hours watched in its first week, the series ranked #2 on Netflix's weekly Top 10 list.

The To All the Boys I've Loved Before film series on Netflix is based on Jenny Han's young adult novels and XO, Kitty is a spinoff of that series. In the series, the teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey thinks she knows everything there is to know about love, but after reuniting with her long-distance boyfriend halfway around the world, she learns the hard way that love is tricky, especially when it's her own heart at stake.

Characters such as Minyeong Choi's Dae, Gia Kim's Yuri, Sang Heon Lee's Min Ho, Anthony Keyvan's Q, and Peter Thurnwald's Alex join Anna Cathcart's Kitty in the series. Jina (Yunjin Kim), Trina (Sarayu Blue), Dan (John Corbett), Professor (Michael K. Lee), Jocelyn (Shelfo), Madison (Jocelyn), and Juliana (Regan Aliyah) are the other main characters.

Along with Sascha Rothchild, Han is responsible for developing and producing the show. Executive producing duties are shared with ACE Entertainment's Matt Kaplan. The production company is ACE, and the studio is Awesomeness Studios.

After the premiere of To All the Boys I've Loved Before in 2018, Netflix released two sequels: To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You in 2020 and To All the Boys: Always and Forever in 2021.

The first season of XO, Kitty was shot between March 28 and June 7, 2022. There were a total of 14 months between the start of production and the premiere of the show. Now that the show has been renewed, it might be another fourteen months before the second season premieres. That puts the earliest release date at August 2024, even if filming starts in June 2023.