A Harry Potter TV show nobody wants is coming to HBO Max

A Harry Potter Goggle box show nobody wants is coming to HBO Max

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Harry Potter is coming to HBO Max — simply not the style many fans expected. The rumored Harry Potter TV show is now a reality, but it'll exist in the form of an unscripted quiz show and retrospective special that volition stream on HBO Max and air on Cartoon Network and TBS later this year.

Harry Potter is one of the crown jewels of IP owned by WarnerMedia, though through various contractual quirks, you take to head over to Peacock to watch the Harry Potter movies in guild. Manufacture insiders have long predicted that WarnerMedia would bolster HBO Max with Harry Potter spinoffs, and fans hoped to see serial set within that universe — like a Marauders prequel.

Instead, they're getting a quiz evidence. Cue the sad trombone.

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To gloat the 20th ceremony of the release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer'due south Stone, Warner is putting on a Wizarding World 5-night event on HBO Max, Cartoon Network and TBS sometime later this year.

An untitled quiz contest will feature Potterheads answering trivia questions, with special guests making appearances. Casting is taking place now on WizardingWorld.com.

"For fans who accept ever wanted to discover what information technology might be like to take the O.W.Fifty. exams, this is equally close as they are going to become!," Warner Bros. executive Tom Scheim said.

An online play-forth component will let viewers at home participate. The iv one-hour quiz specials will be followed past a film retrospective.

This is definitely not the Harry Potter Telly bear witness that Potterheads have been clamoring to run across. That's not to say a scripted series wont happen; according to The Hollywood Reporter, "broad ideas accept been discussed" but "the conversations are still in the extremely early on stages." Warner Bros. previously denied that any Harry Potter serial were in development.

Then, we tin can notwithstanding concord out hope for that Marauders prequel about immature James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew solemnly swearing they are up to no expert. Until then, dust off your Hogwarts robe, tap into your inner Hermione Granger and sharpen those trivia skills.

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Kelly is a senior writer roofing streaming media for Tom'due south Guide, then basically, she watches Idiot box for a living. Previously, she was a freelance entertainment writer for Yahoo, Vulture, TV Guide and other outlets. When she's not watching TV and movies for work, she's watching them for fun, seeing live music, writing songs, knitting and gardening.