The Handmaid's Tale

TV Show

The Handmaid's Tale is an American dystopian drama web television series created by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Canadian author, Margaret Atwood. The series was ordered by the streaming service Hulu as a straight-to-series order of 10 episodes, for which production began in late 2016. The plot features a dystopia following a Second American Civil War wherein a totalitarian society subjects fertile women, called "Handmaids", into child-bearing slavery.

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Genre	Drama Dystopia +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Created by	Bruce Miller +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Based on	The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Starring	Elisabeth Moss Joseph Fiennes Yvonne Strahovski Alexis Bledel Madeline Brewer Ann Dowd O. T. Fagbenle Max Minghella Samira Wiley Amanda Brugel Bradley Whitford +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Composer	Adam Taylor +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Country of origin	United States +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Original language	English +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No. of seasons	3 +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No. of episodes	36 (list of episodes) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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Executive producer	Bruce Miller Warren Littlefield Reed Morano Daniel Wilson Fran Sears Ilene Chaiken Elisabeth Moss Mike Barker Eric Tuchman Sheila Hockin John Weber Frank Siracusa +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Producer	Margaret Atwood (consulting producer) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Production location	Toronto, Ontario Hamilton, Ontario Cambridge, Ontario Vaughan, Ontario Washington, D.C. +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Running time	45–64 minutes +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Production company	Daniel Wilson Productions, Inc. The Littlefield Company White Oak Pictures MGM Television +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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RELEASE

Original network	Hulu +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Picture format	4K (2:1 UHDTV) Dolby Vision +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Audio format	Stereo (Hulu) 5.1 surround sound (Blu-ray, digital purchase) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Original release	April 26, 2017 (2017-04-26) – present (present) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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