Dallas Jenkins’ The Chosen changed the economics of Bible television seven years ago.
A multi-season drama about Jesus and His disciples, launched outside the traditional Hollywood system, has since become one of the biggest faith-based entertainment projects in the world. It proved there was a massive audience for Scripture-driven storytelling that looked modern, felt character-driven and didn’t treat faith viewers like they’d be grateful for whatever got made.
Since then, Bible television has moved from occasional Easter programming to a real streaming lane. Some projects have landed better than others, but the shift is obvious: Producers are treating the Bible as a major source for material. The results are exciting, fascinating — and frankly, a lot to keep up with.
Today, Prime Video debuts The Wonder Project’s The Old Stories: Moses, a stunning limited-series extension of House of David. In light of that, we put together a comprehensive guide of some of the best Bible-based shows that have dropped since The Chosen:
The Old Stories: Moses
Wonder Project / Prime Video | May 15, 2026
Wonder Project is staying in the Old Testament.
The Old Stories: Moses arrives this weekend as a companion to House of David, with Ben Kingsley as Moses and O-T Fagbenle as Pharaoh. The three-episode series is framed around the ancient stories David hears as a young shepherd — stories that begin to shape how he understands his own calling.
It’s an ambitious setup, especially because the Exodus story is massive. Three episodes is not a lot of space for Moses, Pharaoh, Egypt, liberation and the spiritual weight of a people learning what deliverance actually costs. Still, the casting alone makes it worth paying attention. Kingsley brings instant gravity, and the cinematography and writing absolutely achieve the scale it’s reaching for.
Bible television has clearly moved into a new phase. Streamers are building worlds around it.
The Promised Land
YouTube / Angel Studios | 2024–present
Of everything in the post-Chosen wave, The Promised Land may be the strangest and the most creatively alive.
Created by The Chosen assistant director Mitch Hudson, the series imagines the Israelites wandering the desert as a workplace mockumentary. Basically, The Office, but with manna complaints and Moses trying to manage a deeply unmanageable congregation.
The pilot went viral in faith circles because the joke is smarter than the premise sounds. The humor comes from actual biblical literacy, rather than cheap church-kid references. Moses’ family dynamic works. The Israelites are exactly as exhausting as the Book of Exodus suggests they were. Somehow, the low budget feel makes it funnier.
A full six-episode season has followed suit, proving Bible storytelling has room for more than solemn string music and desert drone shots. Sometimes it can just be funny.
The Faithful: Women of the Bible
Fox / Hulu | March–April 2026
The Faithful takes one of the more obvious ideas in biblical television and treats it with enough seriousness to make it feel fresh: What if the women in Genesis were given the narrative weight they deserved?
The six-episode Fox limited series reframes familiar stories through Sarah, Hagar, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel, focusing less on how they function in the men’s stories and more on what they endured, wanted and lost. Minnie Driver plays Sarah, Jeffrey Donovan plays Abraham, and the production — filmed in Rome and Matera — looks far more expensive than most broadcast Bible projects have any right to look.
The choice to center Hagar’s story drew early comparisons to The Handmaid’s Tale, which makes sense in the broadest possible way. The show works best when it lets Genesis stay strange, painful and human without flattening it into a modern argument in costumes.
The first episodes make a credible case for the premise. The bigger test is whether the full run can keep the women from becoming symbols in a different direction.
House of David
Wonder Project / Prime Video | 2025–present
House of David is the project that made it clear The Chosen wasn’t a one-off.
Jon Erwin’s Old Testament epic has the scale, texture and ambition of a major streaming drama, but it also understands the strange, violent, morally complicated world of David’s story. Michael Iskander plays David as gifted, intense and visibly unfinished, while Ali Suliman’s Saul gives the series its most compelling tension: a man losing his throne, his stability and his grip on God’s voice in real time.
The show has taken creative liberties, and some of the criticism from more theologically precise viewers is fair. Still, House of David mostly earns its departures because it understands the emotional logic of the biblical story. David’s rise was never clean. Saul’s collapse was never simple. The show lets both realities breathe.
Two seasons in, this is prestige Bible television. No asterisk needed.
The Chosen
The Chosen App / Prime Video | 2019–present
We’d be remiss if we didn’t include the originator of this era of television. Five seasons in, The Chosen is still the show everything else gets measured against.
Jenkins built a crowdfunded, word-of-mouth phenomenon around a deceptively simple idea: What if the disciples felt like actual people? People with tempers, debt, trauma, jokes, family drama and lives that don’t instantly become tidy because Jesus walked into the room.
Jonathan Roumie’s Jesus remains the center of the whole thing — warm, present and funny in a way that feels human without tipping into gimmick. The show has now been viewed across the world, survived a very public split from Angel Studios and expanded into a larger franchise through Jenkins’ 5&2 Studios. Season 6 is on the way, with the crucifixion looming over the story, but you’ll have to catch it on the big screen.
