{"id":53213,"date":"2025-10-01T01:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/53213\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T01:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:33:08","slug":"harry-potter-set-video-showcases-new-hogwarts-express-for-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/53213\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter Set Video Showcases New Hogwarts Express for TV Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new video from the set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a>\u2018s highly anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/harry-potter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter<\/a> series has surfaced online, teasing a familiar location. Production is currently underway at Leavesden Studios in the UK. The first season is expected to premiere in early 2027. <\/p>\n<p>What does the new Harry Potter set video show?<\/p>\n<p>Shared on X, the new behind-the-scenes video offers fans a glimpse of the iconic Hogwarts Express train that the upcoming Harry Potter show will frequently use throughout its ten-season run.<\/p>\n<p>In the original book series and film franchise, the Hogwarts Express is best known as the train that transports students from London King\u2019s Cross Station Platform 9\u00be to Hogsmeade Station. This also seemingly confirmed that the show\u2019s main trio is about to start filming Harry, Ron, and Hermione\u2019s first scene together, which happens during their first train ride to Hogwarts. <\/p>\n<p>The Harry Potter TV show will be led by newcomers Dominic McLaughlin as the titular character, Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley, and Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger. Joining them are John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid, Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy, Rory Wilmot as Neville Longbottom, Bel Powley as Petunia Dursley, Daniel Rigby as Vernon Dursley, Johnny Flynn as Lucius Malfoy, Katherine Parkinson as Molly Weasley, and Amos Kitson as Dudley Dursley, Gracie Cochrane as Ginny Weasley, Tristan Harland as Fred Weasley, Gabriel Harland as George Weasley, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The HBO adaptation is written and executive produced by showrunner Francesca Gardiner (Killing Eve, Succession), with Mark Mylod serving as its director. It will be a faithful adaptation of the beloved Harry Potter book series, featuring an exciting and talented cast to lead a new generation of fandom. Executive producers are Mylod, Rowling, Neil Blair, Ruth Kenley-Letts, and long-time Harry Potter franchise producer David Heyman. It is a production by HBO in association with Bront\u00eb Film and TV and Warner Bros. Television.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WW_Direct\/status\/1972563423906169180\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wizarding World Direct<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new video from the set of HBO\u2018s highly anticipated Harry Potter series has surfaced online, teasing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,510,2592,3484,409,111,139,69,14857],"class_list":["post-53213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-harry-potter","tag-hbo","tag-hbo-max","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53213","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=53213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}