Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV series)


Percy Jackson and the Olympians is an American fantasy adventure television series created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg for streaming service Disney+, based on the book series of the same name by Riordan. Walker Scobell stars as the title character, alongside Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase and Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood.
Development on the series began in May 2020, following a pitch by Riordan to Disney Branded Television. Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz were announced as showrunners in July 2021, with James Bobin hired to direct the first episode in October. Scobell was cast in the lead role in January 2022, with Jeffries and Simhadri joining the cast in May. Filming takes place in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians premiered on December 19, 2023, with the first two episodes of the first season. The other six episodes were released weekly through January 30, 2024. The first season is based on the first book in the series, The Lightning Thief. The series was renewed for a second season in February 2024, based on the second book, The Sea of Monsters. The second season premiered on December 10, 2025, with its first two episodes on both Disney+ and Hulu. In March 2025, ahead of the second season premiere, the series was renewed for a third season, which is set to adapt the third book, The Titan's Curse. The series has received positive reviews from critics, with praise towards its worldbuilding, faithfulness to the source material, and performances. It won eight of the sixteen Children's and Family Emmy Awards for which it was nominated, including Outstanding Young Teen Series and awards for writing and directing.

Premise

In the first season, twelve-year-old demigod Percy Jackson is accused by the Greek god Zeus of stealing his thunderbolt and races to find it and restore order to Olympus.
In the second season, Percy returns to Camp Half-Blood a year later, where he learns that it is under threat from the forces of Kronos and Grover has gone missing, and must venture into the Sea of Monsters to find the Golden Fleece.

Cast and characters

Main

  • Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson, a young demigod and son of Poseidon
  • * Azriel Dalman portrays a younger Percy
  • Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase, a daughter of Athena who has been training at Camp Half-Blood for five years
  • * Jeffries's cousin Marissa Lior Winans portrays a younger Annabeth
  • Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood, Percy's best friend, protector, and a satyr
  • Charlie Bushnell as Luke Castellan, a cunning son of Hermes and the counselor of the Hermes cabin who is later revealed to be working with Kronos
  • Dior Goodjohn as Clarisse La Rue, a strong-willed daughter of Ares who bullies Percy
  • Daniel Diemer as Tyson, Percy's Cyclops half-brother

    Recurring

  • Megan Mullally as Alecto / Mrs. Dodds, Percy's stern mathematics teacher who secretly serves the god Hades as one of the three Furies
  • Virginia Kull as Sally Jackson, Percy's selfless mother
  • Timm Sharp as Gabe Ugliano, Sally's husband and Percy's stepfather. Rick Riordan's wife and executive producer Rebecca Riordan stated that his abusive behavior, present in the book, was toned down for the show as its cruelty would be more "triggering and difficult to watch" on screen than on the page, and "this isn't supposed to be a horror show".
  • Glynn Turman as Chiron / Mr. Brunner, a centaur and Activities Director of Camp Half-Blood. While the character mainly uses an enchanted wheelchair to disguise himself among humans, the character has a disability in the form of a brace in his left hind leg as a war injury. The creators made this change to address his disability, though they noted it would be "just a detail" during the first season.
  • Nick Boraine as Kronos, the King of the Titans who appears as a voice in Percy's dreams
  • Jason Mantzoukas as Dionysus / Mr. D, the god of wine and curmudgeonly camp director of Camp Half-Blood. He is in this position as punishment from Zeus for chasing an off-limits nymph and has to substitute soda when he is also not allowed to have any wine.
  • Adam Copeland as Ares, the arrogant and daring god of war
  • Timothy Simons as King Tantalus, a spirit from the Fields of Punishment, a son of Zeus, and the interim Activities Director of Camp Half-Blood cursed with eternal hunger and thirst ever since he revealed the Olympians' secrets revolving around their nectar and ambrosia and cooked his son Pelops to serve as food to the Olympians
  • Beatrice Kitsos as Alison Simms, a daughter of Apollo and graduate demigod from Camp Half-Blood who lives in the human world and sides with Kronos' army. She is an original character created for the series.
  • Andrew Alvarez and Kevin Chacon as Chris Rodriguez, a son of Hermes and Luke's half-brother. Alvarez was recast as the rogue demigod Theo of Kronos' army in the second season.
  • Tamara Smart as Thalia Grace, the powerful and rebellious daughter of Zeus who was turned into a tree by her father after sacrificing herself to save Annabeth, Luke, and Grover

    Guest

  • Olivea Morton as Nancy Bobofit, a blunt teacher's pet who relishes tormenting Percy
  • Hiro Kanagawa as the headmaster of Yancy Academy. Kanagawa also portrays Kronos' headmaster form in a dream in "We Take a Zebra to Vegas".
  • Simon Chin as Eddie, the building superintendent of the apartment building where the Jacksons reside
  • Manoj Sood as Percy Jackson's second grade principal
  • Jason Gray-Stanford and Garfield Wilson respectively as Maron and Leneus, two members of the Council of Cloven Elders
  • Kathleen Duborg as Helena, a dryad and maternal figure for Grover
  • Threnody Tsai as Sarah, a wheelchair-using demigod and skilled archer
  • Jessica Parker Kennedy as Medusa, a gorgon who lives in solitude and has a past with Percy's father
  • Sara J. Southey as Tisiphone, a member of the Furies
  • Jennifer Shirley and Heather Feeney as Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi whose mummified remains are in Camp Half-Blood
  • Suzanne Cryer as Echidna, the menacing mother of monsters
  • Joyce Robbins, La Nein Harrison, and Cindy Piper respectively as Atropos, Lachesis, and Clotho, the three Fates, goddesses of destiny
  • Timothy Omundson as Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths and forges who is strong, compassionate and merciful unlike the other gods
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda as Hermes, the messenger of the gods and the god of thieves and travelers who is charismatic and boisterous
  • Ted Dykstra as Augustus, an older satyr and acquaintance of Grover
  • Jelena Milinovic as Eudora, a Nereid who works for Poseidon
  • Toby Stephens as Poseidon, Percy's father and god of the sea who is stubborn and impulsive
  • Julian Richings as Procrustes, a son of Poseidon, Percy's half-brother, and a waterbed salesman who kills people by stretching them to the size of his beds. Richings previously portrayed Charon in the film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
  • Jay Duplass as Hades, the god of the Underworld who is a misunderstood genius and an outcast to his family
  • Travis Woloshyn as Charon, the ferryman of the River Styx
  • Lance Reddick and Courtney B. Vance as Zeus, the ferocious King of the Olympians whose thunderbolt was stolen in the first season
  • Kristen Schaal, Margaret Cho, and Sandra Bernhard respectively as Tempest, Wasp, and Anger, the three Gray Sisters who operate an Olympian taxi service in the Greater New York City area
  • Marlo Marolle as Mark, a son of Ares
  • Mark Gibbon, Dan Payne, Daniel Cudmore, Paul Cheng and Kyle Strauts, respectively as Joe Bob, Marrow Sucker, Skull Eater, Brain Biter, and Spine Crusher, five Laestrygonians that are allied with Kronos. Cudmore previously portrayed a Manticore in scenes that were cut from Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.
  • * Gibbon also portrays Chet Jr., a Laestrygonian
  • * Cudmore also portrays Skull Crusher, a Laestrygonian that Luke gets into Camp Half-Blood
  • Sage Linder as Bronte, a daughter of Athena
  • Aiden Howard as Aidan, a son of Aphrodite and member of Kronos' army
  • Andra Day as Athena, Annabeth's mother and the goddess of wisdom
  • Aleks Paunovic as Polyphemus, a Cyclops son of Poseidon and guardian of the Golden Fleece who was previously blinded by Odysseus. Paunovic previously portrayed a Cyclops in the film Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters alongside Derek Mears.
  • Rosemarie DeWitt as Circe / C.C., a sorceress who Percy and Annabeth encounter in the Sea of Monsters
  • Jasmine Vega as Hylla Ramírez-Arellano, a concierge at Circe's spa
  • Andrew Kavadas as Blackbeard, a historic pirate captain and son of Ares who was previously turned into a guinea pig by Circe
  • Dayna Ambrosio as the uncredited voice of the Sirens, nymphs who draw heroes to their death with alluring music
  • Viola Abley as Katie Yoon, a daughter of Apollo
  • Adam Swain as Ellis Wakefield, a son of Ares
Series author Rick Riordan makes cameo appearances in the first season as a teacher in the headmasters' office at Yancy Academy and as a statue at Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium.

Episodes

Season 1 (2023–24)

Season 2 (2025–26)

Season 3

James Bobin directed the first two episodes from the season.

Production

Development

In November 2018, Rick Riordan stated that he believed he would have no creative control over a reboot of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians novel series by The Walt Disney Company if it were to happen, much like his experience with the film series with 20th Century Fox. In December 2019, Riordan pitched an adaptation of the novels to Disney, which had acquired Fox in March of that year. By May 2020, a Disney+ series based on Percy Jackson was in the works, with the first season set to adapt the first book in the series, The Lightning Thief. Riordan revealed in March 2021 that searches for the series' directors and cast was underway, with James Bobin being announced as the pilot episode's director in October. Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz were also announced as showrunners in July.
The series was greenlit by Disney Branded Television in January 2022, with 20th Television and the Gotham Group producing the project. Steinberg, Shotz, Bobin, and Riordan were announced as executive producers alongside Riordan's wife Rebecca Riordan, Bert Salke, Monica Owusu-Breen, Jim Rowe, Anders Engström, Jet Wilkinson, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, and D. J. Goldberg. At the D23 Expo in September, Anders Engström and Jet Wilkinson were revealed to be executive producing the series as well. The same month, Riordan revealed that Engström would direct the third and fourth episodes while Wilkinson would direct the fifth and sixth. The series was reportedly made with a budget of $12 to 15 million per episode.
In February 2024, Disney+ renewed the series for a second season, which will adapt the second book, The Sea of Monsters. In April 2024, Albert Kim was announced as a new executive producer starting with the second season. The series was renewed for a third season in March 2025, which will adapt the third book, The Titan's Curse, set to premiere in 2026.