Groundbreaking Greek Drama ‘The Witch’ Gets A Prequel Series, Production About To Start – NATPE Budapest
deadline.comThe Witch is the biggest series of its kind out of Greece and Antenna has conjured a second season of the epic period drama.
Season two is teed up as a sequel. George Levendis, Managing Director of Antenna Greece, hosted a screening of The Witch at NATPE Budapest.
He is well-known in media circles after a long stint working with Simon Cowell and running international at Syco. The sophomore season of the fantasy drama will be set before events in the first, and feature a new cast, director Lefteris Charitos explained.
Cameras roll in the next few weeks, he told Deadline. Set in 1817 Ottoman-occupied Greece, in the unconquered region of Mani, the series follows a young woman, Theofano (Elli Tringou), who has visions that lead her to a missing child and also arouse suspicions of witchcraft.
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