The Librarians , which started as a series of three TV movies starring Noah Wyle for TNT in 2004, is heading home, twenty years later. Earlier this morning, it emerged that The Librarians: The Next Chapter , a spinoff to the series that ran for four seasons through 2018, would air on TNT, rather than The CW , which originally greenlit the show around May 2023. Deadline can reveal that the show has also been handed a two-season order, which includes a first season of 12 episodes that has already been shot and is currently in post-production, as well as a second season.
The first season will premiere in 2025. The move was a surprise for a number of reasons, most notably that the Warner Bros. Discovery network was returning to original scripted series, after a few years out of the game.
“It all started with a phone call I had with Sam Linsky at TNT. He’s been with the show from the very, very beginning in 2004 and I said it was very odd to be working on The Librarians without working with him. He said they were all really jealous about the show,” showrunner Dean Devlin, who also runs Electric Entertainment , which makes the series, told Deadline.
“Then about five or six weeks ago, he called and said, ‘Do you think there’s any chance you could move the show from The CW to us, and I said, ‘I don’t know but that seems kind of amazing if that could happen’. I had a phenomenal conversation with the people at The CW, it took a little gymnastics, but they were really .