The Sandman
Fantasy drama television series
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| January 31 2025 | Announcement made that the second season of The Sandman will be the series' final season. |
| January 2025 | Announcement made that the series will conclude with the second season. |
| August 2024 | Dead Boy Detectives series was canceled after one season. |
| August 2024 | Filming for the second season was completed. |
| July 2024 | Additional casting for second season revealed, including Ruairi O'Connor as Orpheus, Freddie Fox as Loki, and several other actors in various roles. |
| May 2024 | Casting announcement for second season, with Adrian Lester, Esmé Creed-Miles, and Barry Sloane cast as Destiny, Delirium, and Destruction respectively. |
| April 25 2024 | Dead Boy Detectives series was released on Netflix and received positive reception. |
| January 4 2024 | Gwendoline Christie was nominated for Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series at the Astra Creative Arts TV Awards. |
| November 2023 | First season released on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD formats. |
| November 30 2023 | Neil Gaiman confirmed that production for the second season had resumed. |
| July 2023 | Second season filming was suspended due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. |
| June 23 2023 | Filming for the second season began at Shepperton Studios. |
| May 14 2023 | The series was nominated for the Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation. |
| April 2023 | Neil Gaiman confirmed that Dead Boy Detectives would be set in the same continuity as The Sandman, with Kirby reprising her role as Death in the series' premiere episode. |
| April 23 2023 | Industrial Light & Magic received a nomination for Best Special, Visual Effects at the British Academy Television Craft Awards. |
| March 30 2023 | The Sandman was nominated for Outstanding New TV Series at the GLAAD Media Award. |
| February 2023 | Dead Boy Detectives TV series was moved from HBO Max to Netflix. |
| February 25 2023 | The series was nominated for Best Animated Special Production at the Annie Awards. |
| 2022 | The Sandman becomes the eighth most-watched English language show on Netflix in 2022, spending 7 weeks in the global top 10s. |
| November 2 2022 | Netflix officially confirms the green light for the second season of The Sandman. |
| October 2022 | Jenna Coleman (Johanna Constantine actress) confirmed discussions with Neil Gaiman and Allan Heinberg about a potential Johanna Constantine spin-off series from The Sandman. |
| October 25 2022 | The Sandman was nominated for Best Superhero Television Series at the Saturn Awards. |
| September 18 2022 | By this date, The Sandman has been watched over 393.14 million hours total on Netflix. |
| August 2022 | The Sandman remains the most-watched show on Netflix's weekly Top 10 list during its first full week of streaming, accumulating 127.5 million hours viewed between August 8–14. |
| August 2022 | The show maintains its position as the most-watched English-language TV show on Netflix for a third consecutive week between August 15–21. |
| August 2022 | Writing for a potential second season of The Sandman begins. |
| August 19 2022 | Eleventh episode released as a 'two-part story collection' to supplement the first season. |
| August 19 2022 | An additional episode of The Sandman is released on Netflix. |
| August 5 2022 | The Sandman television series premieres on Netflix with 10 initial episodes. |
| July 2022 | Series creators Neil Gaiman, Allan Heinberg, and the cast promoted the show at San Diego Comic-Con, where an official trailer was debuted. |
| April 2022 | Dead Boy Detectives received a full series greenlight from HBO Max. |
| September 2021 | HBO Max ordered a pilot for the Dead Boy Detectives TV series, based on Neil Gaiman's comics. |
| August 2021 | Filming for The Sandman television series concludes. |
| June 2021 | Production for the first season was initially expected to last until this month. |
| May 2021 | Additional twelve cast members announced, including Kirby, Mason Alexander Park, Donna Preston, Jenna Coleman, and others. |
| January 2021 | Initial main cast announced, including Tom Sturridge, Gwendoline Christie, Vivienne Acheampong, Boyd Holbrook, Charles Dance, Asim Chaudhry, and Sanjeev Bhaskar. |
| December 2020 | Tom Holbrook began shooting his scenes for the first season. |
| October 15 2020 | Principal photography for the first season of The Sandman began, limited to filming locations in the United Kingdom. |
| September 2020 | Neil Gaiman revealed on Twitter that filming was expected to begin in October, subject to lockdown restrictions. |
| September 2020 | Tom Sturridge entered negotiations to portray Dream after screen testing, with Liam Hemsworth and Dacre Montgomery also considered for the Corinthian role. |
| May 2020 | Original planned start of filming was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| June 2019 | Netflix signs a deal to produce The Sandman television series. |
| 2018 | While working on Good Omens, Gaiman was approached by David S. Goyer about a television adaptation of The Sandman, leading to collaboration with screenwriter Allan Heinberg. |
| March 2016 | Eric Heisserer was hired to rewrite the film's script, after which Joseph Gordon-Levitt departed due to creative differences. |
| February 2014 | David S. Goyer, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Neil Gaiman were set to produce a Sandman film, with Jack Thorne writing the script. |
| 2013 | David S. Goyer pitches a film adaptation of The Sandman to Warner Bros. |
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