Promised Land is an American family drama television series that premiered on January 24, 2022, on ABC. The story focuses on Joe Sandoval, patriarch of two blended Latino families who runs a successful Sonoma County, California vineyard and is preparing to hand the vineyard's management to one of his children. Two sub-plots involve the challenges of undocumented immigrants from Mexico who come to work at the vineyard, and conflicts with a hotel owner who blames Sandoval (who bought the vineyard from her father) for her father's death. The final five episodes of the series premiered on Hulu. In May 2022, the series was officially canceled after one season.
In February 2021, ABC ordered a pilot for a family drama titled Promised Land, originally titled American Heritage, from writer and executive producer Matt Lopez. In April 2021, it was announced that Michael Cuesta would direct the pilot episode and be an executive producer. On August 11, 2021, Promised Land was given a series order. On May 6, 2022, ABC officially canceled the series after one season.
In March 2021, Christina Ochoa was cast to play the role of Veronica Sandoval. The following day, Mariel Molino landed the role of Carmen Sandoval. In April, it was announced that Andres Velez would portray Carlos Rincón. The following week, John Ortiz was cast in the role as Joe Sandoval. Three days later, Cecilia Suárez & Augusto Aguilera were cast as Lettie Sandoval and Mateo Flores respectively. The following week, Tonatiuh Elizarraraz was cast as Antonio Sandoval, and the day after that, Katya MartÃÂn was cast as Juana Sánchez. In May 2021, Rolando Chusan was cast as Billy Rincón. In October 2021, Bellamy Young was cast as Margaret Honeycroft. In January 2022, Yul Vazquez, Julio Macias, Ariana Guerra, Kerri Medders, Tom Amandes, Natalia del Riego, and Miguel Angel Garcia joined the cast in recurring roles.
The series premiered on January 24, 2022, on ABC. Due to low ratings, ABC pulled Promised Land from the schedule, effective after the fifth episode on February 21, 2022. The final five episodes streamed exclusively on Hulu from March 1 to March 29, 2022. Previously, episodes had been posted to Hulu next-day after premiere as is custom with ABC shows. Internationally, the series premiered on Disney+ under the dedicated streaming hub Star as an original series, on July 6, 2022. In Latin America, the series premiered on Star+ on July 27, 2022. Promised Land was later removed from Disney+, Star+, Hulu and all other Disney owned streaming services in October 2022 despite only being available recently. This is one of the first few titles along with Rebel to be removed from Disney+ due to Disney's budget cuts.
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 7.4/10, based on 7 critic reviews. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 72 out of 100 based on 5 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".