Original ‘Percy Jackson’ Star Logan Lerman Surprises New Disney+ Cast With Message of Support: ‘You Have a Hit Show on Your Hands’

Disney+ is not proceeding with a second season of Disney Branded Television/20th Television’s action fantasy series American Born Chinese, which stars Oscar winners Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh.

A whole selection of new TV shows and documentaries are dropping on Disney+ this January. From fascinating nature documentaries to action-packed fantasy, there's something for everyone to get stuck into as the longest-seeming month of the new year rolls out.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director If you don’t know the actor Milana Vayntrub by name, then chances are high that you would recognize her face. Since 2013, Vayntrub has been the on-and-off again star of many AT&T commercials as the character Lily, a jolly AT&T employee who has comedic interactions with customers at a store. Vayntrub’s Lily was the face of a national AT&T campaign for three years before she took a hiatus and revived the character in 2020 for a series of pandemic-themed commercials.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Hannah Waddingham appeared on the Christmas episode of ITV’s “James Martin’s Saturday Morning” (via The Independent) and revealed she’s ready to defend Tom Cruise against his critics after working with the Oscar nominee on the upcoming “Mission: Impossible 8.” It was announced in March that the “Ted Lasso” Emmy winner was joining Cruise and the “Mission: Impossible” gang in the eighth installment, which was originally designed as the second part to “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.” Waddingham’s “Mission: Impossible 8” character has not yet been revealed, but she said she spent five intense days with Cruise filming the action tentpole on the USS George H.W. Bush fighter carrier.

Selome Hailu SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium,” Episode 3 of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” For fans of Rick Riordan‘s “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” books, Medusa represents one of Percy’s first big victories: After being tricked into spending time with “Aunty Em,” he beheads the snake-haired woman, and her cursed, dead eyeballs are later used to turn another enemy into stone. But for those with a deeper knowledge of Greek mythology, and for many women, Medusa is a symbol of something darker. In the original myth, Medusa is a human woman who takes a vow of celibacy out of devotion to Athena, the goddess of wisdom.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians has eclipsed the Goosebumps debut to become the top Disney Branded Television premiere of all time with the first episode amassing 13.3M views globally across both Disney+ and Hulu in its first six days streaming, the company said Tuesday.

Selome Hailu The first episode of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” brought in 13.3 million viewers in its first six days on Disney+ and Hulu. This number puts the series among the top five most-watched season premieres in all of 2023 on both streaming services.

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” star Leah Jeffries recently spoke to Essence magazine about how her casting as Annabeth Chase in the new Disney+ series initially generated backlash from some toxic fans. Racist trolls were upset that a Black actor was cast as a character described in the books as a blonde white girl. “The White Lotus” actor Alexandra Daddario played Annabeth in Fox’s “Percy Jackson” film adaptations.

Disney+ surprised fans by premiering the new Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV series adaptation a day early!

Selome Hailu Disney has a Christmas surprise for Rick Riordan fans: “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” has launched on Disney+ and Hulu early, one night ahead of its scheduled Dec. 20 premiere. This is the second update Disney has made to the show’s release strategy: Last week, it was announced that the first episode of the series would debut on Hulu as well as Disney+ and would remain streaming through Jan.

The wait is over for Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Quentin Tarantino fans were sent into a frenzy in late 2017 after it was announced that Paramount and “Star Trek” producer J.J. Abrams had accepted Tarantino’s pitch for a new “Star Trek” movie and were working with “The Revenant” screenwriter Mark L. Smith to iron out the script.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Avatar: The Last Airbender” creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino spent two years developing a live-action adaptation of the animated classic for Netflix before they shocked fans by announcing their exit from the project due to creative differences. The decision left Albert Kim, best known as a writer on “Pantheon” and an executive producer on “Sleepy Hollow,” as the live-action series’ showrunner without the support of the franchise’s original visionaries.

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Disney appears to be putting quite a few eggs in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians basket.

Logan Lerman, who played the title character in two Percy Jackson films a decade ago, offered praise and best wishes to the latest actor to take on the role: “I can’t imagine a better fit for Percy Jackson than Walker [Scobell],” Lerman wrote in a note read aloud to Scobell during a podcast featuring the cast and producers of the new Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

Logan Lerman is giving his stamp of approval for the upcoming Percy Jackson and the Olympians Disney+ series!

book series by Rick Riordan. It first arrived in 2005 as part of the young adult fantasy boom that included “Harry Potter,” “The Hunger Games,” “The Mortal Instruments” and “Twilight.” Created by Riordan and Jonathan Steinberg (“Black Sails”), the series follows the adventures of 12-year old Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell, “The Adam Project”), as he learns that the strange events that he’s been experiencing during his New York City childhood don’t mean he’s a troubled kid, as his teachers have said — it means that he is a “demigod” who is secretly the son of the Greek god, Poseidon (Toby Stephens). “I started reading the books in third grade.