His Dark Materials
 

Coming this Fall

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At San Diego Comic-Con Thursday, HBO network dropped the first full-length trailer for His Dark Materials, based on the bestselling trilogy by Philip Pullman.

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This one is set in a world not terribly unlike our own, except that each person has an animal soul companion known as a "daemon" hanging about. At the center of the story is Lyra (played by Dafne Keen of Logan), a young girl who gets entangled in a dark conspiracy after her friend is kidnapped.

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It's the second screen adaptation of the series, which was previously made into a movie in 2007. If the new TV series is able to capture the spirit of the novels, prepare yourself for one strange, twisty, and irresistibly addictive ride.

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His Dark Materials lands on HBO this fall. James McAvoy, Ruth Wilson, and Lin-Manuel Miranda also star.

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Trailer here.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...40&postcount=3

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Looking forward to it.

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Nice one, always a shame they never filmed more than the 1st book.

The new book is due October I think.

His Dark Materials
 

BBC One’s Philip Pullman adaptation His Dark Materials will premiere on Sunday November 3rd.

https://www.tvwise.co.uk/2019/09/bbc...w5lLfIMNFiE2kE

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Surely you mean BBC One & HBO's?

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Yes that is what l meant.;)

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Thought so.;)

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Looking forward to this. A bit late to this as I only recently heard the complete Radio adaptation when it was repeated a few months ago. Always try to support UK Sci-fi/Fantasy TV shows.

Hopefully Good Omens should be coming to BBC Two soon, the DVD release has been revealed recently and it's fairly soon. The box art only has a BBC logo on it (that I could see), a bit of a reversal of the Amazon heavy promos which rarely mentioned it was a originally a BBC production and became a co-production.

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Hmmm, well that looks familiar.

Its the Golden Compass is it not ?

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Yes. That's the name for the Northern Lights book, the 1st in His Dark Materials trilogy, in places like America. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Lights_(novel)

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The series premieres on Monday 4th November fyi although that is on HBO in the US and this thread is UK timeline. I don't know if it will be on Sky Atlantic same day. Keep your eyes peeled:shocked:

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It's a BBC co-production, Sky Atlantic doesn't come into it. BBC1 date is in the first post.

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Well don’t hold your breath. Pullman has a massive chip on his shoulder about religion and hates the fact that the genre-defining authors in his field (Tolkien and Lewis) both treat faith and spirituality as inherently good things. As a result his work is rather negative and spiteful. IMO, of course ...

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It will be interesting to see what deal they struck then and how long the BBC have got to wait for it. I know HBO stuff is normally shown on Sky Atlantic over here.