Potter and Beasts Head to Paramount Channels Starting This July

Warner Bros. Discovery has handed Paramount Global the exclusive small-screen keys to 11 Wizarding World films, with the run kicking off July 3 across MTV, Nickelodeon, and the Paramount Network.

Paramount Global has secured an exclusive TV licensing deal with Warner Bros. Discovery covering all 11 Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films.
The deal marks the first time the films will air on MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, and the Paramount Network.
The run begins July 3, positioning the franchise across multiple Paramount cable properties.
The agreement represents a significant platform shuffle for the IP, which had previously cycled through other U.S. linear homes.
The timing puts the films in front of a summer audience that skews younger — a natural fit for Nickelodeon in particular.

The summer schedule just got a little more magical. Paramount Global has locked in an exclusive TV licensing deal with Warner Bros. Discovery for the full slate of Wizarding World films — all 11 of them, from the original “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone” through the “Fantastic Beasts” trilogy — and the first titles hit the air on July 3.

It is a notable platform shuffle for a franchise that has spent two decades bouncing around the U.S. linear landscape. Under the new arrangement, the films will air across four Paramount properties: MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, and the Paramount Network. According to The Hollywood Reporter, this is the first time the series will play on any of those channels — a genuine first-run situation for networks that know their way around a recognizable title.

The Nickelodeon placement is the one that writes itself. The channel's core audience grew up with the books, or with older siblings who did, or with parents who read the paperbacks on airplanes in 2000 and never quite got over it. The franchise's nostalgia radius is unusually wide — it pulls 35-year-olds and 12-year-olds into the same living room, which is exactly what a cable network wants on a July afternoon.

For Paramount, the deal adds proven, pre-sold IP to a summer slate that always needs reliable tentpole programming between the big reality cycles. For Warner Bros. Discovery, it keeps the films visible on linear while the studio's own “Harry Potter” HBO Max series — currently in development — builds toward its eventual premiere window. The July 3 date gives the franchise a holiday-weekend launch and Paramount a ready-made marathon format heading into the back half of summer.