According to Deadline, the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale is ending soon, but the story will continue in a new sequel series titled The Testaments. The show will take place with a forward time jump in the same world as The Handmaid’s Tale, from executive producers Bruce Miller (Eureka, Alphas) and Warren Littlefield (Fargo, Dopesick). 

As mentioned in Deadline, the show began production in April 2025. Since the show is still in its early stages of production, a release date has not yet been decided. 

Deadline states that the show will take place 15 years following the events in The Handmaid’s Tale, and it follows the lives of three women, Daisy (Lucy Halliday), Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd), and Agnes (Chase Infiniti), whose futures become intertwined as they find out significant secrets of Gilead and the resistance against its regime.

Rowan Blanchard, best known for Girl Meets World and Invisible Sister, will star in this show as a series regular, Deadline reported. Blanchard’s character Shunammite is a coddled teenage girl from an important Gilead family, and her status grants her an elevated level of respect and power amongst her peers.

Based on Deadline’s reporting, Mattea Conforti (The Many Saints of Newark, Frozen II) will also be in the show, playing a humble girl Becka, who goes to school with the Gilead elite. Additionally, Ann Dowd (Compliance, Hereditary) will continue her Handmaid’s Tale role as Aunt Lydia, and Lucy Halliday (Blue Jean, California Schemin) as well as Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another, Presumed Innocent) are cast two of the three main leads alongside Dowd.

According to Deadline, more of the cast includes Amy Seimetz (Upstream Color, Sun Don’t Shine) Mabel Li (New Gold Mountain, The Testaments), Zarrin Darnell-Martin (Ginny & Georgia, Spotlight), Brad Alexander (You, Surface), Shechinah Mpumlwana (Rookie Blue, Blue’s Clues & You), Eva Foote (Murdoch Mysteries, A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Isolde Ardies (The Testaments, Murdoch Mysteries) Birva Pandya (Odd Squad, The Umbrella Academy), and Kira Guloien (The Good Doctor, Women Talking). 

Elisabeth Moss (Us, Mad Men), star of The Handmaid’s Tale, will be the executive producer of the series alongside Littlefield and Miller. In addition to executive producing, Mike Barker (Family Guy, American Dad!) will direct the first three episodes of the show, as mentioned by Deadline. 

Stay tuned for more information on The Testaments.