b'Executive Producer of The Bear Readies to Serve Up Season 3South Oranges Josh Senior manages the ingredients of the award-winning TV series BY DONNY LEVITThe restaurant crew of the Original Beef of Chicagoland in The Bear. This article contains casting spoilers as well as light plot spoilers for Seasons 1 and 2 of The Bear.O n a chilly February day inAs prestigious as the accolades may be, the Southshop run by his brother, Mikey, who has recently Chicago,JoshSeniorisOrange resident wants to keep the focus on the workdied by suicide. The show chronicles the immense on the set of one of tele- at hand. Between Season 1 and Season 2, I thinkcomplexities of running a small restaurant business, visionsmostacclaimedwe did a really good job of keeping that noise outdigging deeply into the personalities of the sandwich TVseries.Asexecutive keeping our heads down and doing good work,shop employees and the complicated Berzatto family. producer of The Bear (FXSenior says. Its hard not to acknowledge the rec- Christopher Storer, creator of The Bear, has part-onHulu)sinceitsin- ognition for the show, but we are striving very hardnered with Senior on multiple projects, including ception, he plays a crucial role in the oversight ofto make sure that we can keep making the show theRamy (2020), a Hulu TV series featuring comedian Season 3, slated to be released in June 2024. Justsame way that we made it the first few times.Ramy Youssef, and Bo Burnham: Inside (2021). They a day ago, Senior and the creative and productionWith its first season released in June 2022, Themet through the production company A24. Weve teams were in Los Angeles accepting awards courtesyBearcentersaroundCarmenCarmyBerzattodone a lot of comedy specials. Weve worked on some of both the Screen Actors Guild and the Producers(played by Jeremy Allen White), an award-winningmovies. We had always been the back office facilitat-Guild of America. Just weeks before that, The Bearchef of New Yorks fine dining world who returnsing for other people, says Senior. Once Chris had took home multiple wins at the Emmys and Goldento his hometown of Chicago. Carmy takes over thethe opportunity to step out in front of something, it Globe awards.Original Beef of Chicagoland, a struggling sandwichjust made sense for us to do it together. He joined 16/ matters magazine / spring 2024'