{"id":362898,"date":"2026-03-24T17:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362898\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:18:08","slug":"hbo-reveals-first-look-at-harry-potter-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362898\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Reveals First Look at ‘Harry Potter’ TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHBO<\/a> revealed the first photo from its highly anticipated Harry Potter<\/a> TV series.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe image, below, shows the back of young Harry (Dominic McLaughlin) as he approaches the Quidditch pitch with a Griffindor cloak on a snowy day.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe post also suggested that the first teaser trailer for the series will be released Wednesday with the caption \u201ctomorrow\u201d and a lightning bolt emoji. There\u2019s also a banner calling out \u201cFred and George\u201d (as in Weasley) in the upper right corner. <\/p>\n

\n\tHarry Potter\u00a0will reimagine J.K. Rowling\u2019s seven fantasy novels, which have sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, and its eight movie adaptations have cumulatively grossed $7 billion-plus. Each season will cover one of the seven books, with\u00a0Succession\u00a0writer Francesca Gardiner in place as showrunner and\u00a0Game of Thrones\u00a0veteran Mark Mylod directing several episodes of the series.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tDominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter<\/p>\n

\n\tJohn Lithgow will play<\/a> Headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the series. Arabella Stanton\u00a0will star<\/a>\u00a0as Hermione Granger, with\u00a0Alastair Stout\u00a0cast as Ron Weasley.\u00a0The cast also includes the likes of\u00a0Ozark\u00a0scene stealer Janet McTeer as\u00a0Professor\u00a0Minerva McGonagall,\u00a0Shaun of the Dead\u2019s Nick Frost as the half-giant Hagrid and, in a diverse casting twist, Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You) as the Potions Professor Severus Snape.<\/p>\n

\n\tJB Perrette<\/a>, CEO and president of global streaming & games at Warner Bros. Discovery, has hyped the show as \u201cthe biggest streaming event in the history of HBO Max and arguably in streaming, period. It\u2019s number one, two and three in many ways.\u201d The series is planned for 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s a full list of the Harry Potter cast<\/a> vs. who played each character in the Warner Bros. films. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO revealed the first photo from its highly anticipated Harry Potter TV series. The image, below, shows the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,14293,3284,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-362898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-harry-potter","10":"tag-hbo","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}