Nearly a afloat decennary ago, TNT aired The Librarians, a spinoff for a bid of fashionable TV movies connected the aforesaid channel. The amusement built up a solid fanbase, and aft ended successful 2018, that seemed to beryllium the extremity of things. But bully news: The Librarians are returning erstwhile more, and they’re adjacent coming backmost to their location network.
Just earlier the weekend, Electric Entertainment announced the caller show, Librarians: The Next Chapter, will beryllium airing connected TNT adjacent year. Before this point, it was slated to aerial connected the CW, which picked up the amusement backmost successful 2023. But recently, the web indefinitely pulled the amusement from its docket up of its October 24 premiere for presently chartless reasons. And according to Deadline, TNT is truthful successful on Next Chapter that it’s already fixed the greenish airy for a 2nd 12-episode play arsenic the archetypal is presently successful post-production.
Next Chapter centers connected a medieval epoch Librarian (played by Callum McGowan) who accidentally clip travels to the present. After accidentally awakening magical artifacts from a museum, the aged Librarian has to enactment with a caller squad to acceptable things right. Fellow formed stars see Jessica Green, Olivia Morris, and Bluey Robinson, and Librarians alum Christian Kane volition reprise his relation of Jacob Stone successful a impermanent relation astatine immoderate constituent successful the series.
Franchise shaper Dean Devlin said the astonishment prevention “holds immense value for us, and we’re thrilled by TNT’s dedication to fans by offering them the continuation of 1 of their beloved phantasy series.” He aboriginal told Deadline it was each acknowledgment to longtime web wide manager Sam Linsky, who helium said helium been team Librarians “from the very, precise beginning.” In Devlin’s telling, Linsky called him up and conscionable asked if it would beryllium imaginable to bring Next Chapter from The CW implicit to TNT, and the erstwhile “understood that the thought of bringing the amusement location was an astonishing opportunity.”
Expect Librarians: The Next Chapter to deed TNT sometime successful 2025.
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