‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ spinoff ‘The Testaments’ shares first look at Joan’s daughter

A new era in Gilead is coming.

will, A spin-off of six seasons of Hulu’s hit series The Handmaid’s Tale, The highly anticipated series debuts on Saturday, December 6.

“A rebellious growth story begins in April 2026, when will Coming to @hulu and #HuluOnDisneyPlus,” Instagram the title read.

some image features Chase Infiniti The main character, Agnes (aka Joan’s daughter Hannah, whose name was changed by her adoptive parents in Gilead), wears an all-purple dress in her “School for Wives.”

Among other photos, Rowan Blanchard, Mattei Conforti, Isolde Addis and Bilva Pandya Wearing matching lavender outfit. Ann DowdAunt Lydia also appears in the snap, wearing her signature olive uniform.

The Handmaid’s Tale It is adapted from Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel of the same name, in which lower-class women are forcibly assigned to serve as surrogate mothers in various aristocratic families in an attempt to solve the problem of declining birth rates. The book and series are told through the lens of Offred/Joan Osborne (Elisabeth Moss), he was forced to abandon his daughter Hannah into indentured servitude.

Atwood, 86, published her will The 2019 sequel, set in Hannah’s teenage years. After Hannah is sent to finishing school, she meets a girl named Daisy, who turns out to be little Nicole. (Nicole, spoiler alert, is the daughter of Joan and Nick, who is played by Max Minghella in the original play. )

forward The Handmaid’s Tale Hulu premiered its sixth and final season earlier this year and greenlit spinoffs for Lydia and The Next Generation of Women of Gilead .

“There will be suspense willso it doesn’t end everything,” show producer Zhang Yalin told TV Insider in Marchreferring to the series finale. “Any fan who wants more will get more willwhich is very good for them. It does wrap up a lot of storylines in some very satisfying ways, but not every storyline. “

this will The book is set 15 years after the original story, with Lydia serving as the narrator, while Agnes and Daisy dress up as the “Pearl Girls” (Missionaries of Gilead) to collect incriminating information about the dystopian government.

“While I can’t continue to tell Offred’s story, I can continue to tell the story of closure with three other people connected to these events because we’re starting from The Handmaid’s Tale Gilead disappeared,” Atwood said at a 2019 event about the new generation of figures in the follow-up. “Two hundred years later it doesn’t exist anymore because they’re giving seminars on it. How did it collapse? How do these regimes disappear? I’m interested in exploring this. “

Just as June is no longer the narrator willmany of the original cast members Will not appear in the new drama.

“Probably not. I think I’ve had enough Margaret Atwood suffered a period of trauma” Samira WileyThe man who plays Moira exclusively reveals US Weekly May, when asked if she would guest star. “I’ve never had the pleasure of playing a character in eight years, and never had a character’s journey that I could tell the story from start to finish. I’m going to miss my cast so, so much. But I’m going to miss her (Moira) as well. I’m going to miss the fictional character Moira that I was able to create.”

OT Fagbenle (Luke Bankler, Hannah’s father) and Sam Yeager Meanwhile, Mark Tuello is also willing to reprise their roles.

“It was so interesting when I learned how they created will. Originally in the book, it was set in the more distant future,” Yeager, 48, told us us. “I just thought it was different and they were going to have different actors come in, but it doesn’t seem like they’re changing things up one way or another. If they wanted me back, I’d probably be willing to do that. It’s a great group of people. Seeing the next iteration — I’m excited to see it just as a fan.”

will Premiering on Hulu in April 2026.