Faith-Based Musical ‘A Week Away’ Expands with New TV Series Coming This Fall
Four years after the faith-based musical A Week Away climbed the charts, a television series continuing its story is in the works. A Week Away launched on Netflix in 2021, climbing into the Top 5 on the platform's most popular movies list for the U.S. and reaching No. 3 worldwide. It told the story of a teen boy with a troubled past who finds redemption and romance at a summer Christian camp.
Now, that story will continue with A Week Away: The Series, which is scheduled to launch through Angel Studios this fall with the same creative team and some of the same cast members.
Monarch Media, which helped produce the 2021 movie and also was behind the 2023 musical Journey to Bethlehem, is helping make the series.
"We're very excited about it," Monarch Media's Alan Powell told Crosswalk Headlines. "There are some faces that you'll recognize, but it's going to be a lot of new characters as well."
The television series, Powell said, will return to the same camp, but set during a different summer.
"We're going back to the same camp, [but] the calendar has continued to turn, there's new kids that are coming to this camp with new backgrounds and new baggage and new excitement," Powell said. "And so we wanted to explore those stories."
A Week Away: The Series will include "a lot of the same creative team, which has us very excited," Powell said.
"The same guy that did all the music for us in the film is coming back, [along with] the same choreographer, same DP [director of photography]," Powell added. "So there's going to be a lot of similarities in storytelling. And if you like the film, certainly you're going to like the series. But we are excited to tell a longer version of the story, dive into these characters a little bit more, do more music, have more fun."
Powell, himself a singer, added, "When music and film come together, it's the most impactful thing for me, personally, emotionally."
The 2021 film featured song covers originally performed by artists such as Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant, and For King & Country. The soundtrack rose to No. 1 on the iTunes Christian album chart and into the No. 20 on the "all genres" chart.
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Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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Originally published February 26, 2025.
