Prime Video debuted The Wonder Project's The Old Stories: Moses on May 15, 2026, putting Ben Kingsley at the center of a new three-episode series that pairs one of the Bible's best-known figures with the streaming platform's growing faith lineup. Kingsley plays Moses, while O-T Fagbenle portrays Pharaoh in a story told through the ancient narratives David hears as a young shepherd.
The framing gives the series its purpose. The stories are meant to show how those ancient accounts begin shaping David's sense of his own calling, tying the new project directly to House of David as a companion piece rather than a standalone retelling. It is also a sign of how far Bible television has moved: what once appeared only as occasional Easter programming now sits inside a real streaming lane.
That lane was widened seven years ago, when Dallas Jenkins' The Chosen changed the economics of Bible television after launching outside the traditional Hollywood system. Since then, the field has filled with projects that do not all look or sound alike. The post-Chosen wave now includes a workplace mockmockumentary-style series called The Promised Land and Fox's The Faithful, showing that faith-based storytelling has become a broader business, not a one-off experiment.
The tension inside that expansion is obvious. Streamers and networks are no longer testing whether Bible stories can draw an audience; they are testing how many different tones and formats those stories can carry without losing the viewers who came for them. The Old Stories: Moses answers that question one way, with a familiar figure, a prestige cast and a tight three-episode run built to complement an existing series rather than compete with it.
For Kingsley, the role places a major screen name inside a corner of television that now has proven commercial weight. For Prime Video, the debut on May 15 is less a novelty than a marker of how established the genre has become. Bible television is no longer a seasonal curiosity. It is a steady part of the streaming business, and Moses is now part of the proof.
