<P> Filming on the series took place in Toronto, Mississauga, Hamilton, Oakville, and Cambridge, Ontario, from September 2016 to February 2017 . The first full trailer of the TV series was released by Hulu on YouTube on March 23, 2017 . The series premiered on April 26, 2017 . </P> <P> On May 3, 2017, The Handmaid's Tale was renewed for a second season to premiere in 2018 . Moss told the news media that the subsequent episodes would cover further developments in the story, filling in some of the unanswered questions and continuing the narrative already "finished" in the book . The second season consists of 13 episodes and began filming in fall 2017 . Alexis Bledel returned as a series regular . Showrunner Bruce Miller stated that he envisioned 10 seasons of the show, stating, "Well, you know, honestly, when I started, I tried to game out in my head what would ten seasons be like? If you hit a home run, you want energy to go around the bases, you want enough story to keep going, if you can hook the audience to care about these people enough that they're actually crying at the finale ." </P> <P> The first three episodes of the series premiered on April 26, 2017; the subsequent seven episodes were released on a weekly basis . In Canada, the series is broadcast by Bravo; the first two episodes premiered on April 30, 2017 . In Scandinavia, the series is available on HBO Nordic . In the United Kingdom, the series premiered on May 28, 2017, on Channel 4 . In Ireland, the series premiered on February 5, 2018 on RTÉ2, with a showing of the first two episodes . RTÉ also became the first broadcaster in Europe to debut Season 2 following its broadcast in the US and Canada . In the Brazil, the series premiered on March 7, 2018, on Paramount Channel . </P> <P> In New Zealand, the series was released on the subscription video on demand service Lightbox on June 8, 2017 . In Australia, the series premiered on the TV channel SBS's video streaming service SBS on Demand, on July 6, 2017 . </P>

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