{"id":23267,"date":"2025-01-26T19:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=23267"},"modified":"2025-01-26T19:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T17:31:35","slug":"wizards-beyond-waverly-place-premieres-on-disney-channel-monday-27-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2025\/01\/26\/wizards-beyond-waverly-place-premieres-on-disney-channel-monday-27-january\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWizards Beyond Waverly Place\u201d Premieres on Disney Channel, Monday 27 January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Executive Producers Selena Gomez and David Henrie Return for the Continuation of the Beloved Franchise<\/strong><strong>Disney Alums Raven-Symon\u00e9 and Danielle Fishel To Direct<\/strong><strong>A Continuation of the Emmy<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>&nbsp;Award-winning \u201cWizards of Waverly Place\u201d, Sees David Henrie&nbsp;Reprise his Role as Justin Russo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DisneyChannel.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DisneyChannel.png?resize=400%2C162&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DisneyChannel.png?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DisneyChannel.png?resize=300%2C122&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Prepare for a magical adventure as the highly anticipated series \u201cWizards Beyond Waverly Place\u201d premieres on Disney Channel (DStv Channel 303) on <strong>Monday, 27 January <\/strong>at 17:00 CAT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seriesfollows an adult Justin Russo, who has chosen to lead a normal, mortal life with his family, Giada, Roman and Milo. When Justin\u2019s sister Alex brings Billie to his home seeking help, Justin realizes he must dust off his magical skills to mentor the wizard-in-training while also juggling his everyday responsibilities \u2014 and safeguarding the future of the Wizard World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe series cast includes \u201cWizards of Waverly Place\u201d alumni <strong>David Henrie&nbsp;<\/strong>(as Justin Russo) alongside newcomer&nbsp;<strong>Janice LeAnn Brown<\/strong>&nbsp;(as Billie),&nbsp;<strong>Alkaio Thiele<\/strong>&nbsp;(as Roman Russo),&nbsp;<strong>Max Matenko<\/strong>&nbsp;(as Milo Russo),&nbsp;<strong>Taylor Cora<\/strong>&nbsp;(as Winter) and&nbsp;<strong>Mimi Gianopulos<\/strong>&nbsp;(as Giada Russo).&nbsp;<strong>Selena Gomez<\/strong>&nbsp;(as Alex Russo) will guest star in the first episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWizards Beyond Waverly Place\u201d has Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas serve as writers and executive producers, along with executive producers Gary Marsh, Jonas Agin, Selena Gomez<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and David Henrie. Andy Fickman directed and executive-produced the pilot and will direct multiple episodes. Other Disney Channel alumni involved in the series are&nbsp;<strong>Raven-Symon\u00e9<\/strong>&nbsp;(\u201cRaven\u2019s Home\u201d) and&nbsp;<strong>Danielle Fishel<\/strong>&nbsp;(\u201cGirl Meets World\u201d) taking on director roles for episodes in season one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wizards Beyond Waverly Place - Trailer\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Lm94WAvD6w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading up to the series premiere, you can catch a marathon of the original series \u201cWizards of Waverly Place\u201d and the 2009 movie \u201cWizards of Waverly Place \u2013 The Movie\u201d on Disney Channel on <strong>Sunday, 26 January <\/strong>at 10:15 CAT<strong>.<\/strong> In the film, Alex (Selena Gomez) is forced to go on holiday with her parents. Clearly reluctant to be on this vacation, she wishes her parents had never met &#8211; with disastrous results. Spells and sorcery abound in this fun-filled movie. This is followed by a marathon of Season 4 of the series from 11:55 CAT \u2013 16:05 CAT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive Producers Selena Gomez and David Henrie Return for the Continuation of the Beloved FranchiseDisney Alums Raven-Symon\u00e9 and Danielle Fishel To DirectA Continuation of the Emmy\u00ae&nbsp;Award-winning \u201cWizards of Waverly Place\u201d, Sees David Henrie&nbsp;Reprise his Role as Justin Russo Prepare for a magical adventure as the highly anticipated series \u201cWizards Beyond Waverly Place\u201d premieres on Disney&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2025\/01\/26\/wizards-beyond-waverly-place-premieres-on-disney-channel-monday-27-january\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cWizards Beyond Waverly Place\u201d Premieres on Disney Channel, Monday 27 January<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-23267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-television","tag-disney","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Wizards-Beyond-Waverly-Place.avif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}