The HARRY POTTER TV Series Will Be The "Streaming Event of The Decade" According To Warner Bros. Streaming Head
Warner Bros. Discovery is already setting expectations sky-high for its upcoming Harry Potter TV series, and the show is still more than a year away from hitting screens.
During a recent appearance in London, JB Perrette, the company’s president of global streaming and games, made it clear that this project isn’t just another franchise reboot. In his eyes, it’s shaping up to be something much bigger.
The new Harry Potter series, based on J.K. Rowling’s beloved book saga, is being developed as a long-form adaptation expected to span more than seven seasons. The idea is ambitious and it will give each book the space it never had on the big screen.
Production is already underway, and Perrette recently visited Leavesden Studios, where the original films were made, while in the U.K. to unveil the European launch plans for HBO Max.
What he saw clearly left an impression. Perrette said: “The scope of the production, the detail, meticulousness of what they’re going through and what they’ve built takes theatrical to just a whole different level.
“And so when you think of the love of that franchise and what you can do in a series — can go deeper, an tell more of the story, can tell more of the pieces that you didn’t get to capture in a two hour movie – Casey [Bloys, HBO Max boss] doesn’t like it when I say this, but I’m gonna say it anyway. I really think this is the streaming event of the decade.”
That’s a big claim, especially in a streaming landscape packed with big-budget genre shows and familiar IP. Still, Harry Potter remains a rare beast.
It’s a global brand with generations of fans, many of whom grew up with the books and films and are now eager to see the Wizarding World explored with fresh depth. A television format opens the door to characters, subplots, and moments that simply couldn’t fit into a two-hour movie.
Perrette also framed the series as a much-needed shot of momentum for the company. Warner Bros. Discovery has been navigating ongoing acquisition-related challenges, and the combination of Harry Potter and the expansion of HBO Max into major European markets has given internal teams something major to rally around.
“We as a team have been waiting for so long to be able to deliver this experience to consumers in a market as big and important as the U.K., for example, and then you book end — as we get out of ‘26 and going to ‘27 — with what will be certainly the biggest streaming event in the history of HBO Max, and arguably, I think, possibly in streaming period, there’s no other series that can be anywhere close to that.”
Whether or not it ultimately lives up to that kind of hype, the Harry Potter TV series is clearly being treated as a crown jewel. With its premium production values, long-term storytelling plan, and the full weight of Warner Bros. Discovery behind it, this return to Hogwarts is being positioned as an all-in moment for streaming television.
Via: Variety