The Handmaid's Tale (TV series)

The Handmaid's Tale
Genre	Drama Dystopian fiction
Created by	Bruce Miller
Based on	The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Starring	Elisabeth Moss Joseph Fiennes Yvonne Strahovski Alexis Bledel Madeline Brewer Ann Dowd O. T. Fagbenle Max Minghella Samira Wiley
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Bruce Miller Warren Littlefield Reed Morano Daniel Wilson Fran Sears Ilene Chaiken
Producer(s)	Margaret Atwood Elisabeth Moss
Location(s)	Toronto, Ontario Hamilton, Ontario Cambridge, Ontario
Running time	47–60 minutes
Production company(s)	MGM Television White Oak Pictures The Littlefield Company Daniel Wilson Productions, Inc.
Release
Original network	Hulu
Original release	April 26, 2017 – present
External links
Website	www.hulu.com/the-handmaids-tale

The Handmaid's Tale is an American television series created by Bruce Miller based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. It was ordered by streaming service Hulu with a straight-to-series order of 10 episodes, with the production beginning in late 2016.

The first three episodes of the series premiered on April 26, 2017, with the subsequent seven episodes added on a weekly basis every Wednesday. In May 2017, it was renewed for a second season to premiere in 2018.