{"id":2263341,"date":"2026-02-02T18:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2263341"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:48:25","slug":"stephen-king-surprises-fans-with-production-announcement-for-a-new-season-of-a-beloved-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stephen-king-surprises-fans-with-production-announcement-for-a-new-season-of-a-beloved-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King Surprises Fans With Production Announcement For a New Season of a Beloved Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000175\/\">Stephen King<\/a> surprised fans on social media today by revealing that production has officially started on the second season of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10946316\/\">The Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProduction has begun on #TheInstitute Season 2! Coming soon to @mgmplus,\u201d King wrote, confirming that the series is moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Production has begun on #TheInstitute Season 2! Coming soon to @mgmplus pic.twitter.com\/SiPl0SlJSL<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) February 2, 2026<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10946316\/\">The Institute<\/a> is a supernatural horror series created by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3859706\/\">Benjamin Cavell<\/a> and directed by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0070474\/\">Jack Bender<\/a>, with both also serving as executive producers. The show is based on Stephen King\u2019s novel of the same name and stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1602660\/\">Ben Barnes<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000571\/\">Mary-Louise Parker<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm16550325\/\">Joe Freeman<\/a>. It tells the story of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen King surprised fans on social media today by revealing that production has officially started on the second season of The Institute. \u201cProduction has begun on #TheInstitute Season 2! Coming soon to @mgmplus,\u201d King wrote, confirming that the series is moving forward. Production has begun on #TheInstitute Season 2! Coming soon to @mgmplus pic.twitter.com\/SiPl0SlJSL \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2263342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2263341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Stephen-King-Surprises-Fans-With-Production-Announcement-For-a-New.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263343,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263341\/revisions\/2263343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}