A SANCTUARY: A Witch's Tale Season 1 on DVD

13 January 2026

FIND YOUR Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale – a brand-new bewitching crime drama series coming to screens this festive season, with a murder mystery set to cast a spell on you. Elaine Cassidy (A Discovery of Witches, The Wonder, The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die) stars as modern day witch Sarah Fenn, whose peaceful existence comes under persecution in the wake of a devastating tragedy.

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Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale Season 1 is set for its DVD release on 19 January 2026, courtesy of Acorn Media International, Hazel Doupe (Smother, Into the Badlands) as following its launch on Netflix. The full series will be available to buy and keep on digital from 26 December 2025.

Based on the Sunday Times bestselling novel Sanctuary by V.V. James, this enchanting mystery thriller centres Elaine Cassidy’s Sarah Fenn alongside other powerful female characters with Harper Fenn, Amy De Bhrún (Line of Duty, Vikings) as Abigail Whithall and Stephanie Levi-John (The Spanish Princess)as DCI Maggie Knight.

When local teen rugby star and town golden boy, Dan Whithall dies in a sudden and unexplained accident, the tight-knit community turns to Sarah (Cassidy) for answers. Though witches are welcome to live openly in Sanctuary, the weight of Dan’s death brings to light how deep old prejudices can run and just how quickly suspicions can turn deadly. In the wake of a police investigation and as rumours spiral, grief soon curdles into blame and Abigail (De Bhrún) – Dan’s devastated mother and once Sarah’s closest friend – begins to stoke the pyre on a modern-day witch hunt.

As suspicion grips the town, Sarah and her teenage daughter Harper (Doupe) find themselves in the middle of a mounting storm: a community unravelling; an investigation steeped in bias and a deadly force of paranoia determined to destroy them.