Daniel Radcliffe may not watch the new Harry Potter series: eight hours is a lot

Daniel Radcliffe, the star of all eight Harry Potter films, does not know whether he will watch the new television series about the boy wizard.

He told the Associated Press, in an interview reported by Gulf News on 10 November, that he was unsure.

“I don’t watch any TV,” he said, adding that he had already “been in a lot of Harry Potter”. “Eight hours is a lot of anything to watch,” he said.

Mr. Radcliffe said he had written to Dominic McLaughlin, the young actor cast as Harry, to wish him luck, but deliberately gave him no advice.

The series begins with the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, over a first season of eight episodes. Arabella Stanton plays Hermione and Alastair Stout plays Ron. It premieres in December, and in the Gulf it will stream on OSN+ from 25 December, according to the report.

The film series, released between 2001 and 2011, made Mr. Radcliffe one of the world’s best-known young actors.