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The first verdict on HBO’s Harry Potter is in, and it comes from the man who runs the network. Casey Bloys, chairman and CEO of HBO and HBO Max Content, says he has watched the show’s entire first season. He was speaking to Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw on stage at the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los…

Even a castle with moving staircases can run short on space. Warner Bros. has applied for planning permission for an extra sound stage at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, the studio complex in Hertfordshire, England, where HBO’s Harry Potter series is filmed. Local newspaper the Watford Observer reports that the application to Three Rivers District Council…

You don’t have to wait until Christmas to see the new Harry and Hagrid in the same film, and yes, there are pumpkins. Grow, a family comedy featuring Dominic McLaughlin and Nick Frost, started streaming on Peacock in the United States on Thursday, October 1, 2026, Collider reports. That’s about twelve weeks before the pair…

Update, October 6, 2026: The merger has closed, and Skydance has confirmed who will run its streaming and film divisions. This post has been updated to reflect both. The Wizarding World has a new landlord. Paramount’s US$110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, the company behind the Harry Potter films and the HBO series, closed…

Muggles in one corner of the English countryside are finding out what it’s like to live next door to the Wizarding World, and it involves a lot of road signs. HBO’s Harry Potter series has been filming in Latimer, a small village in the Chess Valley in Buckinghamshire, England, since Monday, September 28. Residents were…

An early look at season two’s branding didn’t come from HBO. It turned up in a school-supplies presentation. A logo for season two of HBO’s Harry Potter series, subtitled in Portuguese as E a Câmara Secreta, appeared on screen during a presentation by DAC, the Brazilian stationery brand, on Friday, September 25, 2026. DAC hosted…

Gilderoy Lockhart would be thrilled to learn he is only a tiny step away from an actual heartthrob. Kit Harington has given his fullest account yet of how he ended up as Hogwarts’ least qualified Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, speaking to Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. He had already decided…

Hedwig’s Theme has been the sound of the Wizarding World for twenty-five years. Hans Zimmer has no intention of competing with it. Speaking to Collider in an interview published Friday morning, Zimmer said his approach to HBO’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is to stay “as far away as possible” from John Williams’ work…

No two Ollivander wands are the same, and HBO has finally photographed five of its new ones properly enough for us to see it. The official Harry Potter Instagram account published a six-card carousel on Friday, fronted by a title plate reading “The wand chooses the wizard” and an invitation to swipe for “the magic…

Hogwarts runs on a school year. HBO, it turns out, does not. Speaking to Deadline after Monday night’s Emmys, HBO and Max Content chairman and CEO Casey Bloys gave the most concrete answer yet on how quickly Harry Potter seasons will arrive — and the headline is that an annual release isn’t happening. That part…