{"id":354118,"date":"2026-03-29T19:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354118\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:57:09","slug":"casey-bloys-says-harry-potter-season-2-is-being-written-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354118\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey Bloys Says &#8216;Harry Potter&#8217; Season 2 Is Being Written &#8216;Now&#8217;:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a> boss <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/casey-bloys\/\" id=\"auto-tag_casey-bloys\" data-tag=\"casey-bloys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casey Bloys<\/a> recently told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/business\/companies-markets\/article\/hbo-boss-why-i-dont-test-our-shows-and-my-plan-for-harry-potter-3x5t5xfqj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Times of London<\/a> that the network is already developing the second season of the highly anticipated \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/harry-potter\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harry-potter\" data-tag=\"harry-potter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter<\/a>\u201d TV series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cOur goal is to not have a huge gap, you know, especially because the kids are growing,\u201d Bloys said. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to be an annual; the show is too big and too massive. But \u2026 they\u2019re writing the season two now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn the HBO series, Dominic McLaughlin stars as the titular boy who lived, Harry Potter, joined by Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley and Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger. The ensemble cast also includes John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid, Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch, Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell, Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy, Bel Powley and Daniel Rigby as Petunia and Vernon Dursley and Katherine Parkinson as Molly Weasley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis series is poised to be a faithful adaptation of J.K. Rowling\u2019s seven novels, with each season following one book. The recently released<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/harry-potter-trailer-hbo-release-date-ron-hermione-1236698105\/\"> Season 1 trailer<\/a> featured iconic moments from the series first installment, \u201cThe Sorcerer\u2019s Stone,\u201d including Harry getting his Hogwarts acceptance letter, meeting Ron on the Hogwarts Express and unwrapping a Quidditch broomstick. It also gave quick looks at Dumbledore, Snape, Draco Malfoy, Mr. Ollivander, the Sorting Hat and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHBO\u2019s \u201cHarry Potter\u201d series was shot at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the U.K. The series is led by showrunner Francesca Gardiner and \u201cSuccession\u201d director Mark Mylod, who helmed multiple episodes. Executive producers include Rowling, Neil Blair, Ruth Kenley-Letts and David Heyman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO boss Casey Bloys recently told The Times of London that the network is already developing the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[97595,156,510,2592,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-354118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-casey-bloys","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-harry-potter","11":"tag-hbo","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}