Overview
- National Geographic, which unveiled the first trailer Tuesday, will premiere the three-part series on July 22 on its network and on July 23 via Disney+ and Hulu.
- Tom Hiddleston hosts the series as a self-styled “time detective” and reunites with Loki executive producer Kevin R. Wright for a hybrid of scripted drama and expert-led investigation.
- Plimsoll Productions serves as the maker with Tom Barbor-Might as showrunner and director and named writers and executive producers credited in the announcement.
- Promotional material highlights new research using AI, advanced DNA analysis and fresh readings of Herculaneum scrolls to challenge long-held assumptions about who could have survived the AD 79 eruption.
- NatGeo will publish a major natgeo.com feature on July 21 to detail the research and National Geographic magazine will follow while the series soundtrack by Aisling Brouwer is due July 24.