‘His Dark Materials’: BBC Sets Premiere Dates For Big-Budget Philip Pullman Adaptation
The British public broadcaster will air it first on Sunday November 3 and HBO, which co-produced the fantasy epic, will air it in a Monday night slot on November 4. The WarnerMedia-owned broadcaster will also air it internationally where it has networks and streaming services., which is written by Jack Thorne, follows Lyra, played by Dafne Keen, searching for a kidnapped friend.
The cast of the drama, which is produced by Bad Wolf and New Line Cinema, also includes Anne-Marie Duff, Clarke Peters, Ariyon Bakare, Will Keen, Ian Gelder, Georgina Campbell, Lucian Msamati, James Cosmo, Mat Fraser, Geoff Bell, Simon Manyonda as well as young actors Lewin Lloyd, Daniel Frogson and Tyler Howitt.
Thorne admitted that the series was “challenging” to adapt and that he wrote several dozens drafts for the first episode of the show. “We wrote papers to ourselves about all the different ideas in the show. We wanted to do a Ph.D. in Phillip Pullman and we tried to do a Ph.D. in . I wrote 46 drafts of episode one in order to find a way to tell this story as elegantly as possible. [Pullman’s] denseness is a blessing and a curse; it’s so exciting.
HBO and the BBC have committed to an initial 16-part run across two seasons with the show filmed in Wales. Bad Wolf chief Tranter called it a “quintessential” co-production between the British public broadcaster and the WarnerMedia premium cable network. “We started with the BBC because Philip Pullman is a [British] national treasure and the books are on the national curriculum and it felt right that it would have a place in the UK with one of its broadcasters.
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