When Will The Stand Start on CBS All Access? Premiere Date and Latest News about The Stand Mini Series

What Is The Stand About?

The Stand series is a small screen adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, that is coming to CBS All Access. The Stand centers on a group of survivors who have made it through a catastrophic plague, the Captain Trips virus, that cost the other 99 percent of the world their lives. But those survivors must still contend with the supernatural villain Randall Flagg, aka the Dark Man.

As previously announced, King penned the finale and also wrote a new coda that will take the story beyond where is 800-plus page 1978 tome left things.

“During the two years we spent making ‘The Stand,’ we all felt the responsibility of adapting what may be the most beloved work of one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, but none of us could have imagined that Stephen King’s 40-year-old masterpiece about a global pandemic would come to be so eerily relevant,” said showrunner Benjamin Cavell. “We’re honored to tell this sprawling, epic story, including a new coda that Stephen King has wanted to add for decades. We’re so proud of this show and its attempt to find meaning and hope in the most uncertain of times. We can’t wait to share it with the world.”

The Stand will premiere on Thursday, Dec. 17, with new episodes dropping weekly.

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