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Hulu is diving into one of the most notorious true-crime cases of the 21st century with its new limited series, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. Starring Grace Van Patten as Knox, the eight-episode docudrama revisits the infamous murder trial that captivated global headlines and explores the media frenzy, wrongful conviction, and eventual exoneration. But this time, Amanda Knox herself is behind the camera — serving as an executive producer and helping craft the narrative from her perspective.

With new revelations promised and a powerhouse creative team that includes Monica Lewinsky, the series blends stylized dramatization with personal storytelling. Here’s everything to know about Hulu’s buzzy new series before you stream it.

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The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox recounts the events surrounding Knox’s wrongful conviction for the 2007 murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. The series examines how tabloid sensationalism, cultural biases,...

A fresh batch of true crime, survival adventures, anime favorites, and food competitions lands this week. Whether you want an intricate mystery from Australia or a high-energy build competition with celebrity teammates, there is plenty to line up on your watchlist. Everything below is organized by show, and each entry includes the exact day it arrives so you can plan out your evenings.

You will find returning staples like ‘Alone’, ‘Naked and Afraid’, and ‘The Great Food Truck Race’, along with new and recent highlights such as ‘Lego Masters Jr.’ and ‘The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox’. Anime fans get multiple series in one drop, while food-show devotees can spend Saturday with kitchen chaos and cross-country truck hustles. Dive in and set reminders.

‘Lego Masters Jr.’ (2025) Lego Masters Jr.

‘Lego Masters Jr.’ arrives Tuesday, August 19, 2025. The special event spin-off pairs young builders with celebrity teammates as they tackle themed challenges judged by Brickmasters.

When Amanda Knox walked into a lecture hall in 2017 to give her first-ever public talk, she was terrified. For years, her face had been splashed across tabloids, her words twisted into headlines, her silence filled in by strangers. Luckily for her, sharing the stage that day was a woman who’d been through the same media meat grinder — indeed, who’d become a household name before she was old enough to rent a car.

Knox begged the event organizers for a chance to meet Monica Lewinsky privately. So, Lewinsky later invited her up to her hotel room, made her a pot of tea and ended up sharing the kind of big-sister guidance that only a fellow scandal-press survivor could offer.

“She had a lot of advice about reclaiming your voice and your narrative,” Knox says. “That ended up being a turning point for me.”

Knox took that advice about reclaiming her narrative literally.

We’re getting the first look at footage of The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, Hulu’s upcoming limited series starring Grace Van Patten as the wrongfully accused killer.

“In 2007, I was halfway around the world, studying abroad in Italy,” Knox says in a voiceover as she arrives home to her apartment to find her roommate dead. “I had no idea that my dream was about to become a nightmare.”

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is inspired by the true story of Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted for the tragic murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free. The series traces Amanda’s relentless fight to prove her innocence and reclaim her freedom and examines why authorities and the world stood so firmly in judgment.

The trailer begins with Knox explaining her decision to return to Italy. “Why would I return to a...

Amanda Knox is looking to break free from the one thing that defines her — but first, as the actress playing her says in the trailer, she has to go back.

“Many people think they know my story. But now, finally, it’s my turn to tell it,” says Grace Van Patten in the role of Knox for Hulu’s forthcoming limited series The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.

In the first footage (below), the Tell Me Lies star makes her debut as Knox for the series that also boasts Knox as a producer behind the scenes, along with Monica Lewinsky.

The scripted series, inspired by actual events, spans 15 years to cover the time from Knox’s infamous murder accusation in Perugia, Italy, up to modern day. The trailer asks if the truth exists if no one believes it, and sees Van Patten saying, “For 15 years, I’ve been defined by...

Hulu has revealed the official trailer and key art for The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. The limited series premieres Wednesday, August 20, with two episodes. New episodes stream on Wednesdays on Hulu and the series finale on October 1.

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is inspired by the story of how Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted for the tragic murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free.

The series follows the eponymous American college student, who arrives in Italy for her study abroad, only to be wrongfully imprisoned for murder weeks later. The series traces Amanda’s relentless fight to prove her innocence and reclaim her freedom, and examines why authorities and the world stood so firmly in judgment.

The series stars Grace Van Patten (Tell Me Lies), Sharon Horgan (Best Interests), John Hoogenakker, Francesco Acquaroli, Giuseppe De Domenico, and Roberta Mattei.

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox...

Skip Brittenham, the forthright Hollywood attorney and power broker who represented A-listers from all corners of the industry, from Kevin Feige, Harvey Weinstein and Toby Emmerich to Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks and Eddie Murphy, died Thursday. He was 83.

“Everyone in our industry knew of Skip’s legal prowess,” Ziffren Brittenham Llc., which he founded in December 1978, said in a statement. “But some may not have known of his quiet generosity, his ability to find humor and opportunity in the darkest moments and his unwavering belief that media and the entertainment industry must serve people, not the other way around.” (Read the firm’s full statement here.)

A Hollywood Reporter “Legal Legend,” Brittenham launched the boutique firm Ziffren Brittenham with Ken Ziffren, and his clients over the years also included Richard Pryor, Tony and Ridley Scott, Joe Eszterhas, Glen A. Larson, Warren Littlefield, Ted Danson, Tom Selleck, Tim Allen, Bruce Willis,...

It’s pilot season at ABC. The broadcast network, which has been leaning into its “second cycle” strategy involving off-cycle pilot orders targeting midseason, picked up its first 2025 pilot, Rj Decker, in May, with Scott Speedman recently cast as the lead. It may soon be joined by another crime drama pilot led by a TV star in his 40s-50s, The Rookie North.

The spinoff, from The Rookie creator Alexi Hawley, has been gaining momentum for a pilot order, which would come once the lead is cast. A handful of known actors have already been approached for the role, I hear.

The Rookie North is one of several projects in serious pilot consideration at ABC, along with the long-gestating Scrubs reboot, and two family comedies, the Rachel Bloom starrer Do You Want Kids?, which features a couple with and without a baby, and Mittens, which revolves around a neighborhood cat.

Free ad-supported streamer The Network has acquired the timely documentary “War Game,” which will premiere July 4 as its next original. Deal comes as The Network pickes up the film from distributor Boat Rocker; the project will now be branded a Network original in association with Boat Rocker Studios and Anonymous Content.

Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber directed “War Game,” which follows “a bipartisan group of U.S. defense, intelligence, and elected policymakers spanning five presidential administrations who participate in an unscripted role-play exercise in which they confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the U.S. military, in the wake of a contested presidential election.”

Described as a look at what could have happened during the tragic Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, “War Game” was organized by Vet Voice Foundation and takes place in a simulated Situation Room.

“We’re excited that ‘War Game’ is reaching new audiences...

"Seinfeld" is widely recognized as one of the greatest sitcoms of all time because of its ingenuity to think outside its television constraints. Whether it's an episode taking place in a single location like "The Chinese Restaurant" or breaking television taboos with a masturbation contest (that never even says the word), the NBC comedy kept breaking new ground. It all makes sense when you remember that the show was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, both of whom were comedians throwing all these crazy ideas out there to see what sticks. "Seinfeld" certainly had its missteps along the way, but for the most part, its plots and gags were starting to ingrain in the pop culture zeitgeist. It took time, however, for the show to really become the water cooler phenomenon it's remembered for.

Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), George (Jason Alexander), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Kramer (Michael Richards) were quickly becoming the kind of chaotic,...

The difference between a good show and a great show is ingenuity. If you're doing what everyone else is doing, there's nothing inherently wrong with sticking to what works. But when you push beyond the conventions, that's when the magic happens, and "Seinfeld" had plenty of it. The hit NBC sitcom about a chaotic group of inconsiderate friends living in New York forged its path to becoming one of the best sitcoms of all time by thinking outside the box. It caused a ripple effect throughout the world of television comedy that lasted for years, impacting shows like "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

For as treasured as the series is today, "Seinfeld" wasn't an instant phenomenon. It had to slowly grow its identity and fanbase over the course of its first few seasons until "The Contest" cemented the show as must-watch television. The episode where you...

Plenty of TV directors have had hot streaks, but few have been as prolific as the one Tom Cherones experienced on "Seinfeld." The filmmaker got in on the ground level of the uproarious NBC sitcom, and stuck with the show through the end of its fifth season. By that point, Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld's "show about nothing" was on its way to the top of the TV heap, climbing the Nielson ratings and taking over the cultural zeitgeist with phrases like "master of my domain" and "not that there's anything wrong with that!"

Cherones was there for it all, and he didn't just tag in behind the camera every few episodes like many filmmakers do today. Instead, the director helmed a whopping 80 episodes of the first five seasons -- out of just 86. The show's pilot, the Philip Baker Hall guest-starrer "The Library," and Jason Alexander's directorial debut...

The teaser trailer for The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox sees Grace Van Patten as Amanda Knox, fighting for her life.

The series is based on Knox’s harrowing journey to prove her innocence and regain her freedom after being wrongfully imprisoned for her roommate’s murder. Knox, a Seattle native, was studying abroad in Italy at the time. After being initially convicted for murder in 2007, she was later acquitted by Italy’s highest court in 2015.

“Many people think they know my story, but now it’s my turn to tell it,” Van Patten’s Knox can be heard saying in the footage (below), which debuted during game five of the NBA Finals on Monday.

“A limited series inspired by the story of how Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted for the tragic murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free,” the show’s logline reads.

[This story contains major spoilers from The Handmaid’s Tale series finale, titled “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and from The Testaments novel.]

Now that The Handmaid’s Tale has revealed its ending, a new tale is coming into focus: sequel series The Testaments.

Author Margaret Atwood and show creator Bruce Miller explained in The Hollywood Reporter‘s recent oral history on the Hulu series how Atwood’s sequel novel The Testaments, which published in 2019, set The Handmaid’s Tale series ending on a different course: The Testaments takes place after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale and centers on the young girls in Gilead who are training to be wives — and that includes Hannah (who has been renamed Agnes), the daughter of Elisabeth Moss’ starring character, June Osborne.

Because Hannah is in Gilead when The Testaments will begin, The Handmaid’s Tale couldn’t end with June reuniting with her first-born daughter, which leaves the image of Hannah being ripped...

Gilead isn’t finished yet. Though The Handmaid’s Tale closed its final chapter on May 27 after a gripping six-season run, its legacy lives on — through the eyes of a new generation.

Hulu’s next installment, The Testaments, is not just a continuation, but a bold reimagination of Margaret Atwood’s dystopia, diving deeper into the cracks of a crumbling empire.

Brief Details About ‘The Testaments’

If The Handmaid’s Tale was June Osborne’s story, The Testaments belong to the daughters — and the formidable Aunt who’s still standing.

“It’s about Mean Girls growing up Gilead,” says showrunner Bruce Miller, giving a stark and biting preview to Entertainment Weekly.

“It really is about what it’s like to be young and full of energy when the country is trying to turn you into something awful… When all of a sudden they’ve been telling you, ‘you are wonderful, you’re perfect,...

Warning: This story contains spoilers from Season 6 of The Handmaid’s Tale.

Fresh off the series finale, The Handmaid’s Tale cast and creatives gathered Wednesday at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles to reflect on the Emmy-winning show’s full-circle moments — and to reveal a surprise guest.

Calling the final scenes of the six-season series “a very meta experience to film,” star, director, and executive producer Elisabeth Moss described the moment her character, June Osborne, walks through the ruins of the Waterfords’ home and reflects on her past as a handmaid, known as Offred, in the Boston household.

“It was a really beautiful experience, because we had a closed set just to keep it really nice and calm,” said Moss, who directed four episodes this season, including the finale, during the FYC event. “Every single member of this crew took it upon themselves that this was going to be...

With the Emmy-winning adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale wrapping up the six-season arc of the revolutionary June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss), fans can finally celebrate Boston’s liberation from the authoritarian clutches of Gilead. It’s been a harrowing journey for June since the show’s 2017 premiere, and she can't entirely celebrate with her daughter Hannah still behind Gilead’s borders. With Hulu hard at work on The Testaments, an adaptation of Atwood’s 2019 sequel novel set years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, audiences will get a greater degree of resolution over the future of Hannah and the rest of the women under Gilead’s thumb. Here's how The Handmaid’s Tale’s Season 6 resolution sets up for that highly anticipated follow-up.

How did The Handmaid's Tale end?

At the conclusion of The Handmaid’s Tale, the resistance group Mayday (in collaboration with the U.S. military) successfully...

After six seasons that aired from April 26, 2017 to May 27, 2025, The Handmaid’s Tale came to an end, but unfortunately without June (Elisabeth Moss) reuniting with her kidnapped daughter, Hannah (Jordana Blake). Hannah was not seen much in the dystopian show’s final run, but she’s set to be one of the leads of the upcoming spin-off, The Testaments, which will continue the tragic story of Gilead. Production is currently ongoing for the follow-up in Toronto, Canada, and in addition to Hannah, it has already been previously confirmed that Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) is another returning central character.

Days before The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 concluded, executive producer Warren Littlefield hinted at how Lydia’s new perspective in the wake of the Jezebels' massacre will reshape her mindset going into The Testaments. Now, the spin-off’s showrunner, Bruce Miller, also the creator of the original series, is teasing how much of the character can be expected,...

Blessed be the Emmys rulebook, but it needs some serious updating.

With “The Handmaid’s Tale” having taken its final bow, Hulu has confirmed its official Emmy submissions for the critically acclaimed drama, with one entry in particular already causing waves.

Variety has learned exclusively that the streamer has submitted Alexis Bledel in the guest drama actress category for her appearance in the series finale (“610 – The Handmaid’s Tale”), despite a newly enforced Emmy rule disqualifying actors who have been previously nominated in a lead or supporting category for the same show. Bledel won the Emmy for guest in 2017, and garnered two additional noms in the same category in 2020 and 2021. However, in 2018, after appearing in seven of the 13 episodes for a season, she was ineligible to compete as a guest; she was submitted and eventually nominated for supporting drama actress. The one-year recognition for her character, Ofglen, appears to fall outside the bounds of eligibility,...

While Hulu’s television adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale is soon coming to an end, the story will continue in sequel series The Testaments.

From executive producers Bruce Miller and Warren Littlefield, the show will take place in the same world as The Handmaid’s Tale with a time jump after the show.

For everything we know about The Testaments, read on below:

When will The Testaments come out?

A release date is not yet slated for the sequel series, as it is still in early stages of production.

Has The Testaments started production?

Yes, the show began production in April 2025.

Who is in the cast of The Testaments?

Girl Meets World star Rowan Blanchard will star as a series regular in the sequel series, Deadline exclusively reported. Blanchard’s character Shunammite is a pampered teen from a prominent Gilead family, whose status affords her a certain level of respect and power amongst her peers.

With just two weeks until The Handmaid's Tale delivers its series finale, the show is already putting the pieces in place for the upcoming sequel seriesThe Testaments. We don't know much about what to expect from the new show, but we do know that at least one character will cross over from one series to the other. Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) started the show as a hateful and abusive character, but now she is starting to realize that she is only a cog in a much, much bigger engine. During a panel with the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, series executive producer Warren Littlefield (The Old Man) talked about Aunt Lydia and where her head is at this point in the series.

Over the course of the series' six seasons, Aunt Lydia has seen many atrocities committed at Gilead, and she herself was at the front of several of them. But a couple of weeks ago,...

[This story contains Major spoilers from season six, episode nine of The Handmaid’s Tale, “Execution.”]

There’s no such thing as a good Commander.

The Handmaid’s Tale‘s writers have been passing along that message to viewers throughout the sixth and final season of the Hulu series. When Nick (Max Minghella) shocked his lover June (Elisabeth Moss) with the Jezebel’s betrayal, her husband Luke (O-t Fagbenle) argued it’s because he’s a Nazi. When Wharton (Josh Charles) surprised his new wife with a handmaid on their wedding night, Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) remembered June’s warning: Wharton can’t be a good man, because he’s a man of Gilead.

Yet killing three High Commanders is still a shocking final-season surprise: In the penultimate episode, titled “Execution” (written by co-showrunner Eric Tuchman and directed by star Elisabeth Moss), Nick Blaine, Joseph Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) and Gabriel Wharton all perished. Lawrence was planning to plant an altitude-triggered bomb on...

We’ve come a long way from the cattle prod.

The most recent Handmaid’s Tale episode found Aunt Lydia, the violent and staunch Gilead apologist played by Ann Dowd, sobbing on the floor as she beseeched God for help. What sent one of the series’ scariest characters to her knees, you might wonder? A conversation with June that forced the older woman to come to terms with the reality of her role as a fixer for religious rape. (Read a full episode recap here.)

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As real life and The Handmaid’s Tale have taught us, the patriarchy isn’t going to smash itself. And we don’t begrudge an oppressed faction any advantage in winning its fight. But when we watched the Hulu drama’s most recent episode, something leapt out at us: Isn’t cake a really iffy hook on which to hang handmaid liberation?

Confused? We’ll back up a moment. This week’s Handmaid’s Tale found Elisabeth Moss’ June and Samira Wiley’s Moira back in Gilead and undercover as handmaids in order to lead their enslaved sisters in mass murder.

As every Saturday Night Live season comes to an end, a handful of cast members learn they won’t be invited back for another year. For comedians who struggle to make their way into sketches, they can probably read the writing on the wall. But after one season in the mid-1990s, a number of the show’s biggest stars got the ax.

Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman and Mike Myers had already said their goodbyes, leaving the SNL spotlight focused squarely on Adam Sandler and Chris Farley. While young viewers worshipped the comics, older fans — and network executives — didn’t think the current cast was working out. Don Ohlmeyer, the NBC honcho who later pushed for the ouster of Norm Macdonald, first set his sights on Sandler and Farley, according to Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live.

“All the Baby Boomers, Don foremost among them, thought they knew...

They may well be the unsung heroes of television production. Non-writing producers (NWPs) have a rather unsexy title, but they’re often key to making the magic happen. While they may not put pen to paper — or fingers to keyboard, as the case may be — their work is intrinsic in bringing our favorite series to life. Here, the NWPs behind three of the season’s top contenders — Handmaid’s Tale’s Warren Littlefield, Black Mirror’s Jessica Rhoades, and Day of the Jackal’s Gareth Neame — reveals the tricks of their (elusive) trade.

Gold Derby: With all due credit to Liam Neeson and Taken, what is the special set of skills it takes to accomplish this job with this horrible title?

Warren Littlefield: First of all, listen. You need to be a good listener, and then you need to turn that into an action plan. My number one skill is,...

Conan the Barbarian was created by author Robert E. Howard in the early 1930s – and around the time of the character’s 50th anniversary, he was brought to life on the screen in an incredibly popular movie (titled Conan the Barbarian) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger reprised the role in the less popular sequel, Conan the Destroyer, in 1984, and while there were plans for another sequel in the ’80s, but it never made it into production. And even though Schwarzenegger has been saying for years that he wants to play Conan again, somehow it has never happened. Instead, we got a Conan the Barbarian reboot in 2011 – a movie that star Jason Momoa has described as “a big pile of sh*t.” Five years ago, it was announced that the Netflix streaming service had secured a deal with Conan Properties International that gave them the right to dig through the entire catalog...

Regardless of genre, television series lean heavily on the will-they-or-won't-they relationship between two main characters to generate real-life and online buzz. You know how it works: two seemingly mismatched characters (e.g. the "Cheers" duo of Ted Danson's caddish Sam Malone and Shelley Long's intellectual Diane Chambers) discover, often to their own disgust, that they're hot for this person they should despise to the marrow of their bones, and it's only a matter of time before their spark-shooting flirtation leads to a full-on sexual conflagration. We've seen it more recently with Tony Dinozzo (Michael Weatherly) and Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) on "NCIS" (which spawned the forthcoming "NCIS: Tony and Ziva"), and we'll see it over and over again because the hoary formula works.

This is another reason why "Seinfeld" is one of the most brilliant shows in television history. There was no will-they-or-won't-they because the only "they...

A real-life incident when Michael Richards had to wear a ratty hotel bathrobe to a formal NBC party? The whole story was so Kramer-esque that I can’t believe Larry David didn’t turn it into a Seinfeld episode.

It was January 1994, right in the middle of Seinfeld’s peak of popularity. NBC was gathering all of its affiliates, advertisers and muckety-mucks for a mid-season event, and the Seinfeld cast was the main attraction. The network even ponied up for a private jet. “No way NBC is flying us private unless we are red hot,” Richards wrote in his memoir, Entrances and Exits.

The flight was fancy, but Julia Louis-Dreyfus wasn’t nuts about their hotel accommodations. “This place is a dump,” she laughed when she called Richards about her less-than-swanky room. Richards wasn’t as discerning — hey, it was free and the TV worked. But it turned out that the hotel had other shortcomings.

The Handmaid’s Tale executive producers Bruce Miller and Warren Littlefield recently explained how Gilead will be portrayed differently in Hulu’s upcoming sequel spinoff The Testaments. Production on the new show began in April 2024, with franchise lead Elisabeth Moss attached as an executive producer.

During a recent interview with Screen Rant, Miller and Littlefield expressed their excitement about The Testaments, introducing a side of Gilead as seen through the eyes of girls who grew up within the totalitarian system. "I think June was at the very bottom of the ladder in Gilead. She was barely considered a woman," Miller said. "But her daughter, Agnes Mackenzie, who's still stuck in Gilead, is at the very top of the order. So, what you realize is that they're incredibly valued by Gilead, but it doesn't matter. Being at the top or being at the bottom is still sh***y for a woman in Gilead.

For a time they were everywhere — women clad in striking crimson cloaks, inspired by the Hulu series “The Handmaid’s Tale,” silently calling attention to threats to women’s reproductive rights, from Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 Supreme Court nomination hearing to protests in the U.K., Ireland, Poland and Argentina.

Eight years after its premiere, the series adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel is coming to a much lower-key close, indicative of all that’s happened in that intervening time, and the toll that becoming an iconic symbol, far beyond a mere TV show, can creatively exact on any work of art.

The subject matter of “The Handmaid’s Tale” obviously lent itself to that, but when the show began its trek to the screen, few could have clearly anticipated the way real-life events would draw it further into the collision of politics and pop culture, an intersection as treacherous to navigate...

While opening up about saying farewell “The Handmaid’s Tale” after six seasons, the show’s creative team said it felt the series didn’t warn people enough about the dangers of authoritarianism amid President Donald Trump’s contentious return to the White House.

“It’s shocking to me, when I think about when I joined the show, I had more rights as a woman than I have now,” co-showrunner and executive producer Yahlin Chang told TheWrap. “Leaving the show, we created this sort of cautionary tale, and I think we kind of failed, or we didn’t caution enough people, because we’re in even darker days now, which is unbelievable.”

It’s been nearly three years since Season 5 of “The Handmaid’s Tale” aired in November 2022. In the midst of that time frame, many fans and public figures feel the series, which features a totalitarian society that used to the...

Hulu’s adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale is ending with its sixth season as the network and producers begin work on an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s sequel, The Testaments. As the final season begins, stars Elisabeth Moss, Bradley Whitford and Yvonne Strahovski and writer/executive producer Yahlin Chang previewed the final season Saturday at Deadline’s Contenders TV event.

Whitford marveled at how Moss’ June Osborne character has inspired reprehensible characters to change for the better, even slightly. In the dictatorship of Gilead, June was named Offred and made the handmaid of Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes). Handmaids were the remaining fertile women, forcibly impregnated by Commanders. June led a handmaid rebellion and escaped to Canada, from which she also has to flee as Season 6 begins.

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“June is basically blowing on the spark of decency in all of these characters,...

As Hulu’s dystopian series “The Handmaid’s Tale” comes to an end, Elisabeth Moss looks back on playing June Osborne with admiration.

“I hope that she gives courage to somebody who needs it, whether it’s in our country or another country,” Moss told Variety about the handmaid turned freedom fighter. “She’s somebody that people can hopefully look up to. She’s very brave, and I look up to her.”

The hit show returns with its sixth and final season on April 8, and audiences should brace for an explosive finale as the rebellion in Gilead finally ignites.

“It goes a little wild there toward the end, and I think it’s what the fans have been waiting six seasons for — they’ve been waiting for revolution,” said Madeline Brewer. “We had a long resistance, we had a lot of building and building and really a slow burn to what is an outrageous revolution,...

The Handmaid’s Tale may be coming to an end, but Hulu is not saying goodbye to Gilead. Earlier this week, the streamer officially picked up sequel The Testaments to series.

The Gilead follow-up series will adapt Margaret Atwood’s 2019 novel of the same name and see Ann Dowd returning as Aunt Lydia, with Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth Moss executive producing. It will follow June’s (Moss) daughter Hannah, known in Gilead as Agnes, and the team behind the series revealed some more key details at the The Handmaid’s Tale‘s final season premiere on Wednesday.

Creator Bruce Miller, who was also behind the original series, told The Hollywood Reporter that The Testaments takes place four years after the end of Handmaid’s Tale and is the story of “Agnes MacKenzie living in Gilead and gradually finding out who she is. In the end of the book The Testaments they bring down Gilead,...

Hulu is set to continue its exploration of dystopian Gilead with The Testaments, the anticipated The Handmaid's Tale sequel. The series has just announced nine new cast members, including Mabel Li and Amy Seimetz, who join previously announced castmates Chase Infiniti, Lucy Halliday, Ann Dowd (who reprises her The Handmaid's Tale role of Aunt Lydia), Rowan Blanchard, and Mattea Conforti. The other seven actors rounding out the cast are Brad Alexander, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardies, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Birva Pandya, and Kira Guloien.

Based on Margaret Atwood's 2019 novel of the same name, The Testaments is set 15 years after The Handmaid's Tale. The novel is told from the perspectives of three female narrators, Aunt Lydia, Agnes Jemima, and Daisy, and takes place within the dystopian Republic of Gilead. It examines the ways people fight back against oppression and the nature of control.

Li is set to star as Aunt Vidala,...

Gold Derby's top news stories for April 1, 2025. Watch the Karate Kid: Legends trailer

Fresh off its CinemaCon presentation on Monday, Sony Pictures released the trailer for Karate Kid: Legends, the sixth film in the franchise. Set three years after the final season of Cobra Kai, the film stars American Born Chinese's Ben Wang as kung fu prodigy Li Fong, who relocates to New York City with his mother (Ming-Na Wen). Per the logline: "But his newfound peace is short-lived after he attracts unwanted attention from a formidable local karate champion. Driven by a desire to defend himself, Li embarks on a journey to enter the ultimate karate competition. Guided by the wisdom of his kung fu teacher, Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), and the legendary Karate Kid, Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio), Li merges their unique styles to prepare for an epic martial arts showdown." The cast also includes Joshua Jackson and Sadie Stanley.

Hulu has confirmed that The Testaments, the follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, is officially moving forward. Production begins on April 7, with the series based on Margaret Atwood’s 2019 novel. Set over 15 years after The Handmaid’s Tale, the story follows a new generation of young women growing up in Gilead’s strict and oppressive society.

Elisabeth Moss, who played June Osbourne in The Handmaid’s Tale, will executive produce and may appear as a guest star. Whether she returns depends on how The Handmaid’s Tale concludes in its final season, premiering April 8.

The main cast includes Chase Infiniti as Agnes, Lucy Halliday as Daisy, and Ann Dowd reprising her role as Aunt Lydia. New cast members include Mabel Li, Amy Seimetz, Brad Alexander, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardies, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Birva Pandya, and Kira Guloien.

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They will play characters such as strict Aunts,...

“The Handmaid’s Tale” sequel series “The Testaments” has been greenlit at Hulu.

The new series, which is based on Margaret Atwood’s 2019 book of the same name, will begin production on April 7, the streamer announced in a Tuesday social media post. “The Handmaid’s Tale” star Elisabeth Moss will serve as an executive producer for the show.

Additionally, Ann Dowd is set to reprise her role as Aunt Lydia. Other cast members include Chase Infiniti as Agnes, Lucy Halliday as Daisy, Mabel Li as Aunt Vidala, Amy Seimetz as Paula, Brad Alexander as Garth, Zarrin Darnell-Martin as Aunt Gabbana, Eva Foote as Aunt Este, Isolde Ardies as Hulda, Shechinah Mpumlwana as Jehosheba, Birva Pandya as Miriam, Kira Guloien as Rosa, Rowan Blanchard as Shunammite and Mattea Conforti as Becka.

It's official! The Testaments, based on Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, starts production April 7. Ann Dowd will reprise her role...

Welcome back to Gilead. “The Handmaid’s Tale” sequel series “The Testaments” has officially received a series order from Hulu.

The streamer also announced more casting for the show, including series regulars Amy Seimetz, Brad Alexander and Mabel Li.

Seimetz plays Paula, the hard-shelled homemaker and fearsome stepmother to Agnes (Chase Infiniti). Before she was renamed, Agnes was known as Hannah in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” in which the character was played by Jordana Blake. Alexander plays Garth, a young Commander who becomes involved in the personal lives of the girls he’s sworn to protect. And Li plays Aunt Vidala, the stern heir-apparent to the women’s sphere of Gilead.

Also joining the cast are Zarrin Darnell-Martin (Aunt Gabbana), Eva Foote (Aunt Estee), Isolde Ardies (Hulda), Shechinah Mpumlwana (Jehosheba), Birva Pandya (Miriam) and Kira Guloien (Rosa). Previously announced cast members are Mattea Conforti, Infiniti, Lucy Halliday, Ann Dowd and Rowan Blanchard.

Praise be, the news is official: The Testaments has been picked up to series at Hulu and will go into production April 7. The streamer announced the update with a photo from the table read (above) and some news: The Handmaid’s Tale star Ann Dowd, who plays Aunt Lydia, is confirmed to star in the follow-up, as had been expected, and Elisabeth Moss — star, director and executive producer of The Handmaid’s Tale — will be executive producing The Testaments.

Joining the previously announced leads Chase Infiniti, playing Agnes, and Lucy Halliday, playing Daisy, are new cast Mabel Li, Amy Seimetz, Brad Alexander, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardies, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Birva Pandya and Kira Guloien. Rowan Blanchard (Shunammite) and Mattea Conforti (Becka) had been previously announced.

The streamer’s follow-up series to The Handmaid’s Tale is adapted from Margaret Atwood’s 2019 novel with creator Bruce Miller as showrunner. Miller also created The Handmaid’s Tale,...

Hulu has officially ordered The Handmaid’s Tale follow-up The Testaments to series with production set to begin on April 7. From executive producers Bruce Miller and Warren Littlefield, the drama is based on the 2019 Margaret Atwood novel of the same name set in the dystopian theocracy of Gilead more than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale.

The Handmaid’s Tale lead Elisabeth Moss will also executive produce the project. As Deadline previously reported, the hope is for Moss to guest star in the sequel, reprising the role of June Osbourne, who is linked to Agnes and Daisy. With The Handmaid’s Tale set to premiere its final season on April 8, appearances from June will depend on whether she survives the rebellion unless they opt to go the flashback route.

The Testaments also rounds out its cast with 9 new actors: Mabel Li, Amy Seimetz, Brad Alexander, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardies,...

The Handmaid's Tale, Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, is back with its sixth and final season on April 8. The cast and creatives convened for a retrospective PaleyFest event Wednesday night at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, where iconic clips from the previous five seasons were shown for the actors, writers, and directors to reflect on and dissect.

Elisabeth Moss, the show's star and executive producer, talked about pulling triple duty by directing several episodes that were instrumental in establishing the series' signature style. According to the Emmy winner, she had never realized how "important" directing was until she was in front of her fellow castmates orchestrating scenes. "Sometimes you're like, 'I hope my idea works,' and you come up with this plan, and then you get in rehearsal or you start rolling and they start doing it and you're like, 'Nothing matters.' All that...

“The Handmaid’s Tale” took the stage for PaleyFest LA 2025 Wednesday night, and while reflecting on the show’s ongoing political relevance in American culture, Bradley Whitford — who stars as Commander Joseph Lawrence — said it feels as if the country is being run like a real-life Gilead.

“I think at the core this is something really … it is very weird that this show began, started shooting … here we are, unthinkable things have happened. I make a very, and we’re bewildered — I make a dark joke that it’s like the worst ‘Handmaid’s’ episode ever, where June [Elisabeth Moss’ character] is about to be executed and she turns to the camera and says, ‘I heard they’re really incompetent, right?'” Whitford says, explaining his bit, but pivoting to a more serious tone. “We need to meet this moment, and June is a fundamental thing we have to remember in this moment, which is,...

The sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale is nearly here, and the cast and creative team behind the Hulu hit united at PaleyFest LA on Wednesday to both reflect on the show’s journey and tease what’s coming.

Stars Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Bradley Whitford, Ann Dowd, Samira Wiley, O-t Fagbenle, Madeline Brewer, Amanda Brugel, Sam Jaeger and Ever Carradine joined executive producers Eric Tuchman, Yahlin Chang, Bruce Miller and Warren Littlefield at the Dolby Theatre for a “clips and conversation” style event spanning all six seasons, as creator Miller noted, “It’s been a show that we started the way we wanted to start it; we’re ending it the way we want to end it.” Littlefield also commented on how the original goal was just to make a good TV show “and then along came our 45th president and we entered into a whole other world…...

“The Handmaid’s Tale” followup “The Testaments” is continuing to build out its cast. Variety has learned that Mattea Conforti has joined the Hulu show as a series regular.

The series, based on the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name, is set 15 years after the events of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Conforti joins previously announced cast members Chase Infiniti, Lucy Halliday, Ann Dowd, and Rowan Blanchard.

Per the official description, the series follows a new generation of young women in Gilead. “For these young women, growing up in Gilead is all they have ever known, having no tangible memories of the outside world prior to their indoctrination into this life. Facing the prospect of being married off and living a life of servitude, they will be forced to search for allies, both new and old, to help in their fight for freedom and the life they deserve.”

Conforti will star as Becka,...

Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Tale sequel series The Testaments has added Mattea Conforti to its cast of series regulars, which also includes Chase Infiniti, Lucy Halliday, Ann Dowd and Rowan Blanchard.

Conforti will play ‘Becka,’ a girl of humble origins who attends school with Gilead’s elite. As she comes of age, she starts to question whether she wants the life she’s being groomed for.

The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments are based on the novel by Margaret Atwood. Like the mothership series, Bruce Miller serves as creator, showrunner and executive producer.

The Testaments takes place in the dystopian theocracy of Gilead more than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale. The series is a coming-of-age story that finds a new generation of young women in Gilead, grappling with the bleak future that awaits them.

For these young women, growing up in...

Gilead’s numbers continue to grow.

Girl Meets World star Rowan Blanchard has joined the cast of The Testaments, the Handmaid’s Tale sequel that’s in development at Hulu. Our sister site Deadline first reported the casting.

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Blanchard will take on the series-regular role of Shunammite, who is described as “a pampered teen...

Exclusive: Rowan Blanchard has joined the series regular cast of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale sequel series The Testaments, sources confirm to Deadline. She joins the previously announced leads, Chase Infiniti, Lucy Halliday and Ann Dowd, who returns as her original character, Aunt Lydia.

Blanchard stars as Shunammite, a pampered teen from a prominent Gilead family whose status affords her a certain level of respect and power amongst her peers.

The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments are based on the novel by Margaret Atwood. Like the mothership series, the sequel is created by Bruce Miller, who serves as showrunner and executive producer.

The Testaments takes place in the dystopian theocracy of Gilead more than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale. The series is a coming-of-age story that finds a new generation of young women in Gilead, grappling with the bleak future that awaits them.

For these young women,...

Exclusive: Hulu’s Margaret Atwood adaptation of The Testaments has found its first director.

Emmy-nominated The Handmaid’s Tale and Fargo helmer Mike Barker will direct the first three eps and also EP the high-profile MGM Television-produced series, which has been in the works for a while and is nearing greenlight. Other directors are yet to be revealed.

British director Barker has helmed 12 eps of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, recognized with two Emmy noms. His other credits include ITV hit Broadchurch, Fargo and David Duchovny-starring Prime Video thriller Malice, which launches later this year.

Bruce Miller’s Testaments series is one of the hottest TV shows percolating at present. The Handmaid’s Tale sequel has cast Presumed Innocent‘s Chase Infiniti as one of the three leads, joining Ann Dowd, who had been expected to reprise her Emmy-winning role as Lydia, and Lucy Halliday (Blue Jean). We understand cameras will roll soon in Canada.