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With the $100 million Vinyl disappointment (one of Bloys' first moves was to scrap its planned second season) and two David Fincher projects that both stalled due to creative differences, the pressure was certainly on Westworld to perform. In the interim, Westworld along with The Night Of, Divorce and Insecure — as well as the upcoming debuts of Big Little Lies and David Simon's The Deuce — will look to keep HBO atop the Emmy leaders.

Vinyl (another 100 million dollar show) was basically scrapped by the new HBO exec as one of his first moves.

All the weight has been thrown into Westworld.

"Westworld for us is a great building block to have as we think about the ongoing drama series," Bloys noted. "We've got [limited series] The Young Pope, Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects, but the ongoing drama series, this is a really big an important building block for us. When you look at the breadth of our programming, the ongoing drama series is what the media have all been documenting, trying to get an ongoing drama series going. This is a really big deal for us."

Harris only under a 2 season deal.

(Hopkins and Harris are said to have scored $175,000 per episode each, with the latter potentially having only a two-year deal.)

For his part, Bloys remained tight-lipped about if all of the Westworld stars will return for a second season. "I don't want to speculate about cast because there's still three episodes left to air," he said.