exited the role<\/a> \u201cdue to unforeseen circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tThe first season of the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d TV show has wrapped and will premiere on HBO on Dec. 25. The second season, which will be based on the second book of J.K. Rowling\u2019s beloved fantasy series, is currently in pre-production at Leavesden Studios outside London.<\/p>\n
\n\tFor the few who haven\u2019t read the books or seen the movies, HBO\u2019s \u201cHarry Potter\u201d logline reads: \u201cThere is nothing special about\u00a0Harry\u00a0Potter\u00a0\u2014 or so his Aunt Petunia tells him. But when a mysterious letter of admission to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry arrives, it opens the door to a hidden world of magic,\u00a0friendship\u00a0and adventure. Yet behind Hogwarts\u2019 enchanted walls lie dark secrets.\u00a0Harry\u00a0must find the courage to prove himself against the darkest wizard of all.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tDominic McLaughlin will lead the small screen adaptation as The Boy Who Lived, while Arabella Stanton is playing Hermione Granger and Alastair Stout is Ron Weasley. Rounding out the cast are John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa\u00a0Essiedu\u00a0as Severus Snape, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid, Rory Wilmot as Neville Longbottom and Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy, plus dozens of other actors playing familiar characters.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe \u201cHarry Potter\u201d show is based on Rowling\u2019s books and\u00a0is written and executive produced by Francesca Gardiner. Mark Mylod will\u00a0executive\u00a0produce and direct multiple episodes of the series for HBO in association with Bront\u00eb Film and TV and Warner Bros. Television. The series is executive produced by Rowling, Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts of Bront\u00eb Film and TV, as well as David Heyman of Heyday Films.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hogwarts just got a little bit bigger. HBO has announced a few new castings for Season 2 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1186335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,8082,3943,16,15],"class_list":["post-1186334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-harry-potter","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117213718520195120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1186335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}