About The Series. Golden Globe Award winner Mary-Louise Parker stars in this original comedy series as a suburban California mother who is forced to start selling marijuana when the unexpected death of her husband leaves her and her family in dire financial straits. Elizabeth Perkins (Celia) and Kevin Nealon (Doug) costar.
The series premiered on June 30, 2015, on CBS. On October 2, 2015, Zoo was renewed by CBS for a second season, which premiered on June 28, 2016. On August 10, 2016, CBS renewed the series for a third season, which is set to premiere on June 29, 2017.
In the first two decades, the zoo â which had grown to 23 acres in 1902 and was the sixth largest zoo in the nation by 1907 â added a monkey cage, a sealion enclosure, a buffalo pen, an eagle aviary, a small mammal house and in 1910 a zoological society was created in 1910 to help support the growing zoo.