Fans of Percy Jackson and the Olympians might not have to wait two years for new seasons to drop.
Production has started for season three of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Season three was greenlit in an announcement by Disney+ back on March 18. Although season two is set to be released this December, streaming on Disney+, the third season is based on the third installment of the book series by Rick Riordan, titled The Titans Curse.
Season three plans to follow Percy (Walker Scobell), Annabeth (Leah Jeffries), and Grover (Aryan Simhadri) on a new adventure never adapted for screen before. Fan favourites from the book series, characters Nico de Angelo (Levi Christophelus) and Bianca di Angelo (Olive Abercombie), the demigod siblings at the boarding school of Westover Hall, will be making their debut and will hopefully become recurring characters throughout the show.
Season one is popular with audiences and critics alike. On Google reviews, it was rated 3.8 (out of five) and fetched a 7/10 rating by ScreenRant. TV Critic Aramide Tinubu called the show “Stunning”, and viewership numbers from the first few weeks were 10M, whilst the first episode debuted at 26M. Only a week after season one aired, the show was announced for renewal.
Rick Riordan, an executive producer and author of the series, highlighted in an interview with ScreenRant’s Liam Crawley that there are hopes to get season 3 out “much quicker” than the previous two seasons. Though, Disney and 20th Television have yet to announce a release date to confirm this. Speculations have been made that a release date of early 2027 is plausible, aided as a result of the obvious time constraints as the young actors grow up.
If season three comes out quicker than season one and two, Disney+ will be a frontrunner for quick TV series releases of high-budget shows, setting new standards for TV production turnarounds, emulating the pre-streaming age of TV entertainment.
Words by Ayomide Asani
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