Agatha All Alongside Might Probably Solid a Spell for Extra Seasons

Final week’s two-part season finale of Agatha All Alongside answered a few of our questions on its surviving characters—nevertheless it additionally ended with the start of an entire new journey for Billy (Joe Locke) and Agatha (Kathryn Hahn). Might there be extra tales coming from past the Witches’ Street for Marvel’s spellbinding frenemies? A clue might lie within the earliest phases of the present’s awards-season push.

Variety picked up on this concept first: Disney is positioning Agatha All Alongside as a comedy sequence in its submissions to the Golden Globes, Emmy Awards, SAG Awards, and extra. Whereas the present didn’t all the time match that class (as hinted above… there was a variety of demise taking place!), its standing as a comic book e book adaptation kind of mechanically pushes it in that route.

But it surely’s not the humorous classification that’s hinting at extra Agatha All Alongside seasons: it’s the truth that you’d count on a single-season present—which Agatha has lengthy been assumed to be—would submit within the “miniseries” or “restricted sequence” class as a substitute. Agatha‘s predecessor, WandaVision, racked up 23 Emmy nominations, largely below the banner of “Restricted or Anthology Collection or Film” (it ended up profitable three, together with for the outrageously catchy “Agatha All Alongside” music). “Comedy” implies, properly, a second season may properly be within the tarot playing cards.

As Selection additional factors out, placing Agatha All Alongside within the comedy class means it may go up in opposition to some formidable competitors, together with earlier winners The Bear, Hacks, and Abbott Elementary. The commerce additionally affords additional perception and context almost about the Emmys particularly: “Though the present was conceived as a miniseries, the announcement concerning its class shifts strongly signifies that Agatha All Alongside … may proceed past a single season … There was no official phrase from Disney or Marvel concerning a renewal. Nonetheless, the studio must show to the TV Academy that extra seasons are deliberate or make an official announcement, much like what FX did with Shogun final 12 months, in the end setting the all-time profitable document for a drama sequence.”

The principles for what qualifies as a restricted sequence and what doesn’t appear fairly complicated (Variety digs deeper in the event you’re enthusiastic about extra particulars), however the primary takeaway within the case of Agatha All Alongside appears to be that the present may, possibly, maybe return. There are definitely some free ends ready to be pursued in that case—like, the place the hell is Tommy?

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