{"id":23368,"date":"2022-10-07T11:02:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1718546"},"modified":"2022-10-07T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T09:34:09","slug":"his-dark-materials-confirms-return-of-lin-manuel-miranda-in-season-3","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/his-dark-materials-confirms-return-of-lin-manuel-miranda-in-season-3\/","title":{"rendered":"His Dark Materials confirms return of Lin-Manuel Miranda in season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By James Hibbs\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 07 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Hamilton and Mary Poppins Returns star Lin-Manuel Miranda has been confirmed to reprise his role as Lee Scoresby in <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/fantasy\/his-dark-materials-season-3-release-date-cast-plot\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">His Dark Materials<\/a> season 3, despite the character\u2019s apparent death in season 2.<\/p>\n<p>Miranda\u2019s return was confirmed as part of the show\u2019s New York Comic-Con panel, although it will come as no surprise to readers of Philip Pullman\u2019s book The Amber Spyglass, on which the upcoming season is based.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the new season\u2019s US release date and schedule was also confirmed at the Comic-Con panel. The third season will premiere with two episodes back-to-back on Monday 5th December 2022, followed by two new episodes weekly until the finale airs on 26th December.<\/p>\n<p>The exact UK release date and schedule has yet to be confirmed, but we do know season 3 will arrive on BBC One in December 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;\" data-dnt=\"&quot;true&quot;\"><p lang=\"&quot;en&quot;\" dir=\"&quot;ltr&quot;\">The <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HDMNYCC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;\">#HDMNYCC<\/a> panel has now concluded. <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HisDarkMaterials?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;\">#HisDarkMaterials<\/a> premieres this December on <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/hbomax?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;\">@HBOMax<\/a>. <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/t.co\/jydkzaZrTM&quot;\">pic.twitter.com\/jydkzaZrTM<\/a><\/p>\u2014 His Dark Materials (@daemonsanddust) <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/daemonsanddust\/status\/1578150060818563073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;\">October 6, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async=\"\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;\" charset=\"&quot;utf-8&quot;\"\/><p>It\u2019s been a long wait since His Dark Materials season 2 debuted back in 2020, with the final episode of that season seeing Miranda\u2019s character Lee dying in a shootout with the Magisterium.<\/p>\n<p>Since the end of that season, we have been given plenty of hints about the upcoming final instalment of the show from the series\u2019s cast and crew, including details around James McAvoy\u2019s return as Asriel following his absence in season 2.<\/p>\n<p>Executive producer Jane Tranter recently revealed that Asriel\u2019s role in season 3 would be expanded from what it is in the source material of The Amber Spyglass, revealing that Pullman had admitted he left the team with <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/fantasy\/his-dark-materials-mcavoy-role-expanded-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">\u201csome terrible problems\u201d<\/a> in adapting the novel.<\/p> <p>Tranter also revealed that she would have told the story <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/fantasy\/his-dark-materials-producer-wanted-9-seasons-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">\u201cacross nine seasons if [she] could have done\u201d<\/a>, but that it would have been \u201cexpensive\u201d and \u201cprobably the wrong thing for an audience\u201d, explaining the decision to wrap up the series with this final season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;editor-content\" mb-lg=\"\" hidden-print=\"\" js-piano-locked-content=\"\" data-placement=\"&quot;Body&quot;\">\n<p><strong>His Dark Materials returns to BBC One and HBO this December. 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For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/podcasts\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Radio Times podcast<\/a> with Jane Garvey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James Hibbs Published: Friday, 07 October 2022 at 12:00 am Hamilton and Mary Poppins Returns star Lin-Manuel Miranda has been confirmed to reprise his role as Lee Scoresby in His Dark Materials season 3, despite the character\u2019s apparent death in season 2. 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