Watch: Our first (very brief) glimpse of the rest of The Promised Land Season 1
A "release announcement" is coming September 3.
Just a quick heads-up for fans of The Promised Land, the Office-style comedy series about Moses leading the Israelites that currently consists of just one episode: We now have… well, not a release date, but an announcement date, along with… well, not a proper clip from the rest of Season 1, but a cropped version of a clip.
The clip comes in the form of a vertical video released to the show’s social-media accounts, in which Korah—who, in the Bible at least, will end up being one of Moses’ opponents—enforces one of the new laws that God has given Moses:
And, as you can see from the end of that 30-second video, there will be a “Season 1 Release Announcement” on September 3—just twelve days from now.
So, mark your calendars.
Two quick points about the biblical references in that clip:
The law they’re discussing, about not boiling a young goat in its mother’s milk, comes from Exodus 23:19, 34:26, and Deuteronomy 14:21.
There is no one named Hezekiah in the biblical version of Moses’ story, but it’s possible the name was around back then. There are at least two, maybe three, people named Hezekiah in the Bible, but they all lived centuries later: there is King Hezekiah, who lived before the Babylonian exile during the 8th and 7th centuries BC (II Kings 18-20, II Chronicles 29-32, Isaiah 36-39); there’s a distant descendant of his, who lived sometime after the exile (I Chronicles 3:23); and there’s a “leader of the people” in Ezra and Nehemiah’s day, who also lived after the exile, in the 5th century BC (Nehemiah 10:17).1
The show’s pilot episode has racked up almost 1.8 million views since it was released on YouTube in July 2024. I wrote a detailed scene-by-scene analysis of the episode here and interviewed series creator Mitch Hudson here.
You can watch the show’s pilot episode here:
I had a lot of fun watching and writing about the pilot episode, and I enjoyed talking to Hudson, so I’m keen to see how the rest of the series turns out. I’ll be waiting eagerly for the release announcement September 3, and I’ll pass it along as soon as I can.
Upcoming Bible movies and TV shows:
September 5, 2025 — Light of the World (theatrical: Salvation Poem Project)
September 6, 2025 — You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution... (theatrical: Toronto International Film Festival)
September 18, 2025 — Sight & Sound Presents: Noah - Live! (theatrical: Fathom)
September 26, 2025 — Ruth & Boaz (streaming: Netflix)
Fall 2025 — House of David: Season 2 (streaming: Prime Video - Wonder Project)
November 2025 — Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints: Season 2 part 1 (streaming: Fox Nation)
December 19, 2025 — Zero A.D. (theatrical: Angel Studios)
2025 (no month specified) — The Carpenter’s Son (theatrical: Magnolia)
2025 (no month specified) — The Chosen Adventures (streaming)
2025 (no month specified… yet!) — The Promised Land: Season 1 (streaming)
March 22-April 5, 2026 — The Faithful (television: Fox)
April-May 2026 — Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints: Season 2 part 2 (streaming: Fox Nation)
second half of 2026 — The Chosen: Season 6: Episodes 1-6 (streaming: Prime Video)
March 12, 2027 — The Chosen: Season 6: Finale (theatrical: Amazon MGM)
March 26, 2027 — The Resurrection of the Christ: Part One (theatrical: Lionsgate)
May 6, 2027 — The Resurrection of the Christ: Part Two (theatrical: Lionsgate)
March 31, 2028 — The Chosen: Season 7: Premiere (theatrical: Amazon MGM)
no release date specified — David (theatrical)
no release date specified — Jacob (theatrical: Angel Studios)
no release date specified — Joseph of Egypt (streaming: Prime Video)
who knows when Malick will finish it — The Way of the Wind (theatrical)
There might even be a fourth Hezekiah: the great-great-grandfather of the 7th-century BC prophet Zephaniah (Zephaniah 1:1).
It’s generally assumed that Zephaniah’s ancestor was King Hezekiah, which is certainly quite possible. (The king in Zephaniah’s day was a great-grandson of Hezekiah’s and could easily have been Zephaniah’s second cousin, once removed.)
But there are arguments against Zephaniah being a descendant of the king, too.