What time will Loki be on Disney Plus in the UK? What is latest Marvel Cinematic Universe show about? How many episodes will there be?
Its a big week for Marvel fans, with the first episode of Loki  a television series dedicated to Tom Hiddlestons fiendish Norse god of mischief character  premiering in the UK. It is part of Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and a second season is already in development. Sign up to our daily newsletter The i newsletter cut through the noise Sign up Thanks for signing up! Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting...  Heres what we know so far about the latest addition to the record-breaking Marvel Cinematic Universe. The first episode starts during the events of 2019 film Avengers: Endgame when Loki steals the Tesseract  the mysterious cube that holds the unlimited energy of the space stone. A version of Loki flees the scene of the crime, only to be captured by the Time Time Variance Authority (TVA), a bureaucratic organization that looks after the universes timeline. They give Loki a choice: be entirely erased from existence, or help them work out who or what is messing the timeline and to fix it. He swiftly chooses the latter option. This sets up the premise for the rest of the series  Loki being trapped in his own crime thriller, travelling through time and altering human history. So, its basically a Marvel version of 1990s time travel television series Quantum Leap. Loki reviews so far  Tom Hiddleston reprises his role as the Norse god of mischief in Loki. We have already watch the first episode and loved it! Alongside Tom Hiddleston, Loki stars Zoolanders Owen Wilson, Brit actor Richard E Grant, Black Mirror star Gugu Mbatha-Raw, American Honey actress Sasha Lane, BAFTA-winner Wunmi Mosaku and hotly-tipped English actress Sophia Di Martino. It is available in the UK on the Disney Plus streaming platform. Loki is exclusively available to stream on Disney Plus, a subscription service that costs 7.99 a month or 79.90 a year. The first episode premiered in the UK at 8am on Wednesday, June 9. New episodes will then be added at the same time each week  with episode 2 streaming on June 16, episode 3 on June 23, episode 4 on June 30, episode 5 on July 7, and the finale on July 14. The episodes are all one hour long. A message from the Editor:  Thank you for reading this article. We're more reliant on your support than ever as the shift in consumer habits brought about by Coronavirus impacts our advertisers.