“Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking” has been acquired by Prime Video for the U.Okay.
The present, which options pairs of bakers whipping up magical Potter-inspired creations in a contest format, is about to air within the U.S. on Food Network and Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming platform Max from Nov. 14. New episodes will drop weekly.
It will probably be out there on Prime Video within the U.Okay. from December, with an actual transmission date nonetheless being stored beneath wraps.
Internationally, “Wizards of Baking” will probably be on Max in territories the place the streamer is obtainable.
However, with Max not but out there within the U.Okay., partially as a consequence of WBD’s longrunning and profitable output take care of Comcast-owned broadcaster Sky, it appeared doubtless the present would land on Sky and its streaming platform Now.
Currently all WBD “Harry Potter” content material is obtainable on Now, together with all eight function movies and two unscripted collection, “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts” and “Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses.” Other WBD content material can also be out there on the platform, together with “House of the Dragon” and “The Penguin.”
But with WBD desperate to roll out Max within the U.Okay., there was thriller over whether or not the deal will probably be renewed when it expires on the finish of 2025 and what it would appear to be.
Tensions between the businesses now seem like rising, notably over the Potter franchise, after Sky filed a lawsuit in October alleging that WBD had breached their content material settlement by refusing to associate on HBO’s upcoming “Harry Potter” collection adaptation.
“Warner’s reason for refusing to honor its obligations to Sky could not be more clear,” Sky allege of their lawsuit. “Warner has chosen to keep the Harry Potter Series for itself and make the blockbuster Series the cornerstone of its own Max rollout in Europe.”
“Wizards of Baking” is hosted by James and Oliver Phelps, who performed the Weasley twins within the movie diversifications, with judges Carla Hall and Jozef Youssef joined every week by one other former “Potter” forged member to help them in deciding which contestants will progress to the following spherical and which should apparate him.
Reps for Sky and Warner Bros. Discover didn’t reply by press time.