‘Mere Mortals’: Apple Expands ‘Mythic Quest’ With Spin-Off Series
Apple TV+ has announced a spin-off to the critically acclaimed (and utterly hilarious) ‘Mythic Quest’, with a new eight-episode series ‘Mere Mortals‘. Side note – if you’re a Sky customer, check out the bottom of the article for how to get six months of Apple TV+ for free!
‘Mere Mortals’ will explore the lives of employees, players and fans who are impacted by the game. The new extension series takes a page out of the acclaimed departure episodes of “Mythic Quest,” including the upcoming episode “Sarian,” set to make its global debut on Apple TV+ this Friday; last year’s “Everlight,” the special episode that earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Narrator for Anthony Hopkins; season one’s “A Dark Quiet Death”; “Backstory!” from “Mythic Quest” season two; and, the widely celebrated standalone episode, “Mythic Quest: Quarantine.”
The new series is written by Ashly Burch who stars as “Rachel” on the main show, and is also a staff writer for the comedy, alongside fellow main series writers John Howell Harris and Katie McElhenney.
Currently in its third season, ‘Mythic Quest’ is a global hit sitcom from creators Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Megan Ganz that follows team behind the biggest multiplayer video game of all time. But in a workplace focused on building worlds, moulding heroes, and creating legends, the most hard-fought battles don’t occur in the game… they happen in the office. If you haven’t caught it yet, we really urge you to watch, as it is one of the best comedies on tv right now.
The new series will be produced for Apple TV+ by Lionsgate, 3 Arts Entertainment and Ubisoft. Megan Ganz, Rob McElhenney, David Hornsby, Charlie Day, Nick Frenkel, Michael Rotenberg, Jason Altman and Margaret Boykin will serve as executive producers.
‘Mythic Quest‘ Season 3 is currently airing on Apple TV+. There is no premiere date for ‘Mere Mortals‘ yet, but if you want to keep track of these or any other show, you can add them via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when it gets a UK premiere date.
Sky Customer? You could get 6 Months Of Apple TV+ free!
As I mentioned at the top of the article, if you are a Sky customer and you haven’t tried Apple TV+ yet, go check out the “My Sky” app on your phone. If you click the “Sky VIP” option and look for the “Giveaways” box, you can get a link to six months FREE of Apple TV+.
It is well worth getting the trial as Apple has some of the best quality drama and comedy from any of the streaming services right now. There is sci-fi with the adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation‘; ‘SEE‘, from ‘Peaky Blinders’ creator Steven Knight starring Jason Momoa; The mind-bendingly brilliant ‘Severance‘; And Ronald D Moore’s superb alt-history space series ‘For All Mankind‘; There is also brilliant drama with ‘The Morning Show‘ starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, and ‘Slow Horses‘ starring Gary Oldman; For comedy, along with ‘Mythic Quest’, there is multi-award-winning football comedy ‘Ted Lasso‘, the amazing ‘Bad Sisters’, and musical comedy ‘Schmigadoon!’. You will not find more consistently brilliant, high-quality, original tv series and movies, all on one streaming service.
