Looks similar we're officially transporting close backmost to Platform 9 3/4.
 
After years of rumors that a Harry Potter television bid would beryllium coming to HBO Max, the channel's genitor company, Warner Bros. Discovery, is looking to adjacent the woody to bring each the magic to the tiny screen, according to Bloomberg, who was the archetypal to study the news.
 
The task volition reportedly beryllium based connected J.K. Rowling's seven-part publication series, with Deadline reporting that the arguable writer besides successful talks to articulation the bid arsenic a producer.
 
As for who'll measurement successful to the capable roles made celebrated by Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson in the beloved movie adaptations? That has yet to beryllium seen, arsenic Deadline noted the bid scope is expected to grow erstwhile Rowling signs connected the dotted line.
 
The astir caller improvement that has fans waving their wands successful the aerial comes conscionable 4 months aft HBO Max's caput of originals, Sarah Aubrey, initially shared that the streaming work "didn't person a bid in progressive development close now."

However, it's worthy noting she didn't completely regularisation retired any Harry Potter contented for the coming future.

"There's thing similar a Harry Potter fan," she told Variety successful November 2022. "In presumption of their endless appetite for storytelling and caller ways of interacting with these characters. So, whether it's the reunion oregon unrecorded events oregon games, we're precise overmuch successful the concern of creating caller contented for those fans and reasoning what to bash next."

In the decennary since the Harry Potter films concluded successful 2011, Rowling's wizarding satellite has expanded, astir notably with the Fantastic Beasts films acceptable pursuing Newt Scamander and a young Albus Dumbledore. Plus, there's a palmy signifier play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, pursuing the series' archetypal radical of wizards and their kids.

And a slew of non-scripted projects person besides derived from the books, including TBS' 2021 quiz show, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses and the Harry Potter 20th day special in January 2022. The HBO Max archetypal saw a reunion betwixt respective of the films' stars including Radcliffe, Grint and Watson, arsenic good as Helena Bonham Carter, Gary Oldman, Imelda Staunton, Tom Felton, among others.

So, it's nary astonishment that erstwhile Warner Bros. TV CEO Channing Dungey besides spoke to Variety later that month, she revealed that they were "engaged successful a fig of antithetic conversations" erstwhile it came to the TV series, adding, "We're conscionable trying to fig retired what the close adjacent measurement is."