Disney has released a new sizzle trailer previewing the upcoming live-action TV titles under its three-network umbrella. The nearly two-minute video shows first-look footage of new shows and returning series across Hulu, FX, and Disney+. View the video below.
Under the Marvel imprint is new footage of the previously announced Daredevil: Born Again and Ironheart series. Daredevil: Born Again reunites most of the cast of Netflix’s 2015 series for new story set in Hell’s Kitchen. The story picks up after the events of Echo with Wilson Fisk running for mayor of NYC as a new villain rises. In Iornheart, RiRi Williams returns after the events of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as the latest hero to advance the Stark technology and suit.
Over at Hulu, fans will finally receive the last season of the political thriller, The Handmaid’s Tale. The fifth season aired in 2022 and received sixth season renewal shortly after. The sixth season was delayed due to the dual labor strike, pushing production to 2024. The series, based on the novel by Margaret Atwood (Cat’s Eye, Oryx and Crake), follows a dystopian United States overthrown by a patriarchal totalitarian. Another delayed series is the drama, Paradise, starring Sterling K. Brown. Originally announced in 2021, the series reunites the Biosphere actor with his This Is Us scribe, Dan Fogelman. The short clip reveals Brown as a security guard for the president who finds the Commander-in-Chief murdered. Elsewhere is Glen Powell’s (Top Gun: Maverick, Anyone But You) upcoming football comedy Chad Powers, and Ellen Pompeo’s (Grey’s Anatomy) true-crime family drama, Good American Family.
Offerings of the FX on Hulu brand include the fourth season of The Bear. The Emmy-winning comedy reportedly filmed seasons three and four consecutively, which is why we’re receiving the latter so soon. Season two coveted Emmy wins for lead Jeremy Allen White (The Iron Claw, Shameless) and supporting leads Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Girls) and Liza Colón Zayas (In Treatment, David Makes Man). Fans of the Alien franchise can anticipate the arrival of Noah Hawley’s (Legion, Fargo) Alien Earth. Originally announced in 2020, the strike-delayed series is set to star Timothy Olyphant (Justified, The Crazies), Kit Young (Shadow and Bone, The School for Good and Evil), and Sydney Chandler (Urban Legend, Sugar).
At Disney+, book readers rejoiced with the first look of Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ second season. Based on the mythological narratives by Rick Riordan, the story follows the half-blooded teen Percy Jackson who discovers he is the son of Posidean. Along with his friends Annabeth Chase and Grover Underwood, they band together to catch a thief and rescue his mother from an unspeakable fate. It was recently announced the character of Athena will be played by Oscar-nominated actress and singer, Andra Day (The Deliverance, The United States vs. Billie Holiday).
Finally, the next two Star Wars series are set to launch on TVs soon. December’s Skeleton Crew previewed new footage of four kids accidentally whisked across the galaxy in an abandoned Republic fighter ship. The Goonies-styled adventure stars Jude Law (The Third Day, The Talented Mr. Ripley) in mysterious role. And following its premiere date announcement last week, footage for the second season of Andor was revealed. Diego Luna’s (Narcos: Mexico, The Book of Life) Cassian Andor prepares to exert his covert Resistance mission against the Empire.
Make sure to mark calendars for “the greatest stories ” from Disney’s multiple properties and networks.