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“Percy Jackson and the Olympians” has been renewed for its second season on Disney+.
As CEO Bob Iger announced on Disney’s latest quarterly earnings call, Season 1 has streamed for more than 110 million hours on both Disney+ and Hulu. Divided by the season’s runtime, that translates to roughly 20.6 million total views, suggesting that the season’s viewership grew over its month-long run, as Variety exclusively reported that Episode 1 reached 13.3 million views in its first six days of availability.
The series was also a hit with critics, earning a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes with VarietyAramide Tinubu praises it as “a beautiful and intriguing narrative about self-discovery, courage and friendship.”
Adapted from the book series of the same name by Rick Riordan, the success of “Percy Jackson” was crucial for Disney, whose executives gave the series a budget the size of Star Wars and were banking on its potential to launch a major franchise. in a Variety On the cover, 20th Television president Karey Burke said that one of the main goals throughout the development process was “to have the show live alongside the worlds created by our sister studios at Lucasfilm and Marvel. “We really wanted to spare no expense to make sure this series looked so big and imaginative.”
The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” followed Percy (Walker Scobell), a 12-year-old modern demigod, who is just coming to terms with his new supernatural powers when the sky god Zeus (the late Lance Reddick) accuses him. of stealing his master lightning bolt. Percy and his friends Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) and Grover (Aryan Simhadri) venture on a journey across America to find him and restore order to Olympus.
“Percy Jackson and the Olympians” was created by Riordan and Jon Steinberg, who served as showrunner alongside Dan Shotz. Executive producers include Riordan, his wife Rebecca Riordan, Steinberg, Shotz, James Bobin, Bert Salke, Monica Owusu-Breen, Jim Rowe, Anders Engström, Jet Wilkinson and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell and Gotham Group’s DJ Goldberg. The series comes from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television is the studio.