The Lowdown
Coven Academy is Disney testing whether the short-episode microdrama format can work for a mainstream teen show, and the early answer is yes. Some viewers said the pacing felt thin, so the format question isn’t settled yet.
Key Takeaways
- Disney renewed Coven Academy for Season 2 on October 26 (Deadline).
- Season 1 logged 20.3 million global hours in its first three weeks on Disney+ and Hulu, according to Disney (Deadline).
- Disney said it was the No. 1 streaming series among teens 12–17 over its premiere weekend (Deadline).
- Episodes run about 15 minutes each (TV Guide).
The Story
Disney has renewed Coven Academy, a supernatural teen drama, for a second season on Disney+ and Hulu. The renewal came a little over three weeks after the show premiered on Freeform on October 1 (Deadline).
According to Disney, the first season logged 20.3 million global hours in three weeks and drew more than 30 million additional views after the first chapter was posted to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube (Deadline).
The show follows three teenage witches and their warlock classmates at an elite magic boarding school. Its short-form episodes run about 15 minutes each (TV Guide).
Tim Federle created the series. The cast includes Malina Pauli Weissman, Malachi Barton and Tiffani Thiessen, with Devon Sawa as a guest star (Deadline).
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