‘Harry Potter’ HBO Series Finds Its Creative Team In ‘Succession’ Duo Francesca Gardiner & Mark Mylod

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The Harry Potter television series is starting to take shape.

Succession duo Francesca Gardiner and Mark Mylod have signed up as its writer and director, respectively.

This comes four months after Deadline revealed that Gardiner was one of three finalists to win the prize to reboot the classic kids franchise for the small screen. Gardiner beat Tom Moran and Kathleen Jordan to win the gig.

Gardiner, who was a consulting producer on seasons three and four of the Brian Cox-led family drama, will serve as showrunner and exec producer, while Mylod, who directed over a dozen episodes of the show, including episodes such as the second episode, Sh*t Show at the F*ck Factory, and the finale, With Open Eyes, will direct multiple episodes and also exec produce.

It comes after it emerged that Harry Potter was moving from a Max original to an HBO original as part of a strategy rethink at the Warner Bros. Discovery business. The series is slated for a 2026 bow.

The series, which is currently still in development, will be a “faithful” adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s books and will feature a new cast.

Harry Potter is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Rowling’s Brontë Film and TV. Rowling, Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts of Brontë Film and TV will exec produce alongside Gardiner and Mylod as well as David Heyman of Heyday Films, who produced the movies.

Before working on Jesse Armstrong creation Succession, Gardiner was an exec producer of HBO and BBC fantasy co-production His Dark Materials and was a co-exec producer of AMC’s Killing Eve. She has also written on shows including Starz’s The Rook and Amazon’s The Man In The High Castle.

Mylod’s other credits include the Minority Report series, Backstrom, Shameless and Entourage.