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    "headline": "Daniel Radcliffe says he may skip HBO’s Harry Potter series because eight hours is a lot of TV",
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    "articleBody": "Daniel Radcliffe spent a decade as Harry Potter, and he is not sure he will spend eight more hours watching someone else do it. Asked in an interview published this week whether he plans to watch HBO’s new Harry Potter series, the actor gave a polite maybe, then a very ordinary excuse: he barely watches television at all. “I don’t know if I will, honestly,” Radcliffe said. “I’ve watched [and] been in a lot of ‘Harry Potter’ already. Also, I don’t watch any TV. I haven’t seen ‘Breaking Bad’; I haven’t seen ‘Mad Men’; I haven’t seen some of the real classics. So, you know. Eight hours is a lot of anything to watch.” The number is not random. The first season of the HBO show, titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, runs to eight episodes and adapts the first book only. No advice for the new Harry Radcliffe was just as firm on a second question: whether he had tips for Dominic McLaughlin, the 12-year-old who plays Harry in the new version. He does not, and he explained why. “I’m really, truly in the business of not giving Dominic advice,” he said. “He’s got it. He doesn’t need any advice from me.” Any tip he offered in public, he added, would follow the boy into every interview he gives. “And I don’t want to haunt this poor child through interviews,” Radcliffe said, before predicting that McLaughlin is “gonna be amazing” and saying he hopes to meet him someday. The two have already been in touch. Radcliffe said last year that he had written McLaughlin a letter wishing him an even better time on set than he had, and that the young actor sent a sweet note back. How the new series got here For readers who have lost track of the reboot, the path from rumor to Christmas premiere took almost six years. Here is the short version, drawn from the series record: January 2021: first reports of a Harry Potter TV project; the studio denied them at the time. April 2023: Warner Bros. Discovery confirms the series, planned to run for about a decade with one book per season. June 2024: Francesca Gardiner is hired as showrunner, with Mark Mylod directing. May 2025: McLaughlin, Alastair Stout and Arabella Stanton are named as Harry, Ron and Hermione after 40,000 children auditioned. July 2025: filming starts at Leavesden, the same studio where the eight films were shot. March 2026: the teaser trailer draws 277 million views in its first 48 hours, a record for HBO. May 2026: HBO renews the show for a second season based on Chamber of Secrets. That timeline explains why Radcliffe keeps getting the question. A series built to cover one novel per year will keep a new Harry on screens until the mid-2030s, and every interview with a member of the original cast now comes with a version of “will you watch?” A familiar face on both sides Not everyone from the films is staying away. Warwick Davis, who played Professor Flitwick in the movies, is reprising the role in the new show, the only returning cast member confirmed so far. John Lithgow plays Dumbledore, Janet McTeer plays McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu plays Snape and Nick Frost plays Hagrid. The series is a big bet for the network as it reshapes its streaming business; Badiyaa has covered how HBO Max and Paramount+ plan to sell one bundle from early 2027, and the network’s slate this fall also includes the HBO documentary following Colin Farrell and his son James. More stories from the screen beat sit on our entertainment page. Radcliffe, meanwhile, has his own projects to watch. He co-stars with Tracy Morgan in the NBC comedy The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins and voices a character in Steps, an animated feature due on Netflix on November 20. HBO’s Harry Potter premieres on December 25, 2026, in the United States and on HBO Max worldwide. Further reading Wikipedia: Harry Potter (TV series) Image: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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