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Hogwarts Hires Its Ghosts, A Portrait And A Talking Hat, And There’s Still No Sign Of Peeves.
HBO's Harry Potter series has cast Leo Bill as Nearly Headless Nick, Andrew Brooke as the Bloody Baron, Laura Smyth as the Fat…
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October 2026
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An orc with an arc: The Rings of Power season three wins over its first critics, and gives Tolkien’s least huggable race a redemption story (TV news).
The first reactions to The Rings of Power season three are in, ahead of its 11th November premiere, and Adam Young's orc Marnûkh…
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Precure hands the keys to the villains in Dual Shadow, a 2027 spin-off where the heroines are not Precure (anime news).
Toei's Dual Shadow ~Precure Villain Heroines~ is a 2027 spin-off with an original story and cast, and a teaser insisting the heroines are…
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Phantom Busters: the exorcist who eats ghosts gets a 2027 anime, a director and a cast (anime news).
The Phantom Busters anime gets TOHO animation STUDIO, director Chika Nagaoka and a voice cast led by Nobuhiko Okamoto and Natsuki Hanae. It…
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Charlie Weasley Finally Clears Customs, And HBO Finds Harry’s Parents.
HBO's Harry Potter series has cast Harry Gilby as Charlie Weasley, Jasper Talbot as James Potter and Hannah Chinn as Lily Potter for…
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Fantasia Bunko’s festival brings back Our Last Crusade for season three, and gives the Date A Live team a King’s Proposal (anime news).
Kadokawa's Fantasia Bunko festival confirms Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World season 3, and dates King's Proposal's TV anime…
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Delicious in Dungeon season two lays the table with new character art, but dinner isn’t served until October 2027 (anime news).
Delicious in Dungeon season 2 reveals new character art of Falin, Kabru, Mithrun and Thistle. Studio Trigger's sequel premieres on Netflix in October…
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The Rings of Power season three: one Ring to rule them all, and in the spreadsheets bind them (trailer).
If the embed goes dark, the trailer is here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=maP_Kyy3DCA Three months after the Comic-Con teaser, Prime Video has released the full trailer…
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Yaga: Carrie-Anne Moss swaps the Matrix for a hut on chicken legs.
Yaga, Kat Sandler's Baba Yaga mystery starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, Clark Backo and Hudson Williams, premieres 23 October on Crave and AMC+,…
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Fourth Wing finds its Violet and Xaden, and BookTok’s favourite fancast actually comes true (news).
Somewhere in Navarre, a dragon has just been told to hold still for a costume fitting. Prime Video’s adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth…
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Artemis Fowl Gets a Second Wish as Disney Tries Again in Animation
Disney greenlights an animated Artemis Fowl series for Disney+ with Eoin Colfer as executive producer, six years after the Branagh film.
September 2026
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HBO Casts A Spall, A Ghost And A Boy With A Camera, And Appears To Have Cast Ginny Weasley Twice
HBO's Harry Potter series has cast Rafe Spall as Arthur Weasley, Molly Hewitt-Richards as Moaning Myrtle and Jasper Ambrose as Colin Creevey for…