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Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024 TV series)

2024 American television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ109608844 ↗
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Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American fantasy action-adventure television series developed by Albert Kim for Netflix. It is a live-action adaptation of the animated television series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko for Nickelodeon. The cast includes Gordon Cormier, Kiawentiio, Ian Ousley, Dallas Liu, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Ken Leung, Daniel Dae Kim, Elizabeth Yu, Momona Tamada, and Miyako. The series is set in a world divided into four nations based on the classical elements: the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. In each nation, people known as "benders" can manipulate one of the four elements. The story follows the journey of twelve-year-old Aang, the last survivor of the Air Nomads and the next "Avatar", the only bender who can master all four elements.

First announced in September 2018, DiMartino and Konietzko were originally attached as both executive producers and showrunners; however, the pair later departed the series due to creative differences, and Kim replaced them as showrunner. The first season was filmed from November 2021 to June 2022, while the second and third seasons were filmed back-to-back from September 2024 to November 2025.

The first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender premiered on February 22, 2024. In March 2024, the series was renewed for a second and a third season.

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This entry incorporates text from “Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024 TV series)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.