Selena Gomez will reprise the role of Alex Russo in Season 2 of “Wizards Beyond Waverly Place.”
Gomez executive produces the series, which is a spinoff of “Wizards of Waverly Place,” the Disney Channel sitcom that ran for four seasons from 2007 to 2012 and launched Gomez’s career. “Wizards Beyond Waverly Place” premiered in October of last year, with Gomez appearing in two of the first season’s 21 episodes.
In the original series, Gomez’s Alex Russo was a young wizard who trained in magic alongside her two brothers with the knowledge that only one of them would be able to keep their powers once they reached adulthood. Alex won the competition. In the spinoff, Alex reaches out to her brother Justin (David Henrie) and asks if teenage wizard Billie (Janice LeAnn Brown) can move in with him and his family to train in magic.
A synopsis for Season 2 of “Wizards Beyond Waverly Place” reads, “Billie grapples with the fact that being part of the Russo family might be more complicated than she thought — especially now that she’s not the only wizard in the house. Thanks to Roman (Alkaio Thiele) and Milo’s (Max Matenko) new magical powers, Justin is now tasked with training three young wizards for the Family Wizard Competition. As the stakes rise inside and outside the family, a mysterious new threat emerges — one that could unravel the Russos forever.”
Gomez posted about her on-screen return to the spinoff in an Instagram story, writing, “Just feels right…” over a photo of her hand holding a wand on set.
Besides Gomez, executive producers of “Wizards Beyond Waverly Place” include Henrie; writers Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas; Gary Marsh; and Jonas Agin. The series was created by Todd Greenwald.
