The Spiderwick Chronicles has set a new streaming home! The upcoming new television series adaptation, based on the popular books, was originally supposed to air on Disney+ as announced in November 2021, but was dropped from the streamer just a couple months ago.
Their reasoning has to do with the company’s cutting programming costs and reevaluating their content strategy across their streamer and even primetime/cable networks.
Good news though, the show has found a brand new home at The Roku Channel, after already completing filming on the series back in February 2023. “We are elated that The Spiderwick Chronicles has found a new home and want to thank The Roku Channel for their passionate partnership,” Nicole Clemens, President of Paramount Television Studios and Paramount+ Original Scripted Series, shared in a statement. “Our showrunner Aron Eli Coleite has crafted a beautiful series full of all the enchantment that made the books so beloved, and we can’t wait for audiences to meet these wonderful characters.” The series was a production between Paramount Television Studios and 20th Television.
The Spiderwick Chronicles follows the coming-of-age story of the Grace Family, as they move from New York to Michigan and into their family’s ancestral home.
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