HARDACRE PERIOD SET SERIES FROM ALL CREATURES GREAT & SMALL PRODUCERS! NETFLIX NABS THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END TV SERIES! PARAMOUNT ORDERS DUNGEONS & DRAGONS LIVE ACTION TV SERIES

    CHANNEL 5 TO ADAPT  

HARDACRE INTO TV SERIES

Channel 5 is doing the adaptation

After scoring a massive success with All Creatures Great and Small, Channel 5 is, according to Deadline, turning HARDACRE bestseller into another ambitious series as well! Playground Entertainment, which is doing All Creatures, will also turn CL Skelton's international book hit into a sweeping rags-to-riches series set in Yorkshire! The six-part series will tell the story of generations of the Hardacre family from Victorian England to the 1950s. It centres on Sam Hardacre, a fish gutter who builds a lucrative business empire, and his wife Mary, who rises from being a street urchin to the mistress of a grand house in Yorkshire. 

  THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END 

NETFLIX NABS ADAPTATION

Netflix has nabbed the adaptation

In a very heated battle between streamers, Netflix has nabbed the series adaptation of Adam Silvera's mega hit book THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END. Chris Van Dusen will adapt the story about Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio who find out that they’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day. The novel is a devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. The book also got a prequel earlier this Autumn. 

 DUNGEONS & DRAGONS SERIES 

ORDERED AT PARAMOUNT PLUS

After ruining Halo, Paramount Plus has ordered another game small screen adaptation: DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS will be turned into a live action TV series by the hot hunkster Rawson Marshall Thurber. He will also direct the eight part series based on the fantasy role playing game in which players design characters that can range from humans to elves to dwarves and beyond and then select a class such as paladin, fighter, ranger, barbarian or several others. The series is not connected with the upcoming movie adaptation.

NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS: ADAM SILVERA'S BELOVED YA FANTASY ROMANCE THEY BOTH DIE AND THE END AND BETH COWAN ERSKINE'S LOCH DOWN ABBEY TO BECOME TV SERIES!

 THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END 

TV SHOW OUT OF SILVERA'S BOOK

Adaptation news today, starting with our gorgeous Adam Silvera who will adapt his own hit book THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END (the first

The 2017 book is again on the top of the charts

ever gay YA Latino novel to ever hit number one on best seller lists) into a TV series for eOne! The 2017 book is a devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. On September 5, a little after midnight, Death Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure — to live a lifetime in a single day. Even though it was

Adam Silvera will adapt his own book into a TV series

published four years ago, the book is currently the best selling YA book of 2021 in USA. In order to meet the demand, the printing numbers have gone up staggering and mindblowing 900%! 

     LOCH DOWN ABBEY    

TO BECOME A TV SERIES

Meanwhile, the company which made NatGeo's Genius is going to turn LOCH DOWN ABBEY, which Beth Cowan Erskine wrote during the lockdown as her debut novel, into a TV series. It follows the delightfully selfish and out-of-step Inverkillen family. The trouble starts when Lord Inverkillen is

Loch Down Abbey will become tv series

found dead in mysterious circumstances after making a disastrous deal to​ sell off the family’s only asset, the whiskey distillery. The inspector declares it an accident but Mrs MacBain, the savvy head housekeeper, isn’t so convinced. No one is allowed in or out of the Abbey because of a mysterious illness sweeping the country, so the residents of the house, both upstairs and downstairs, are the only suspects. The desperate state of the family’s finances are revealed to the family; without quick intervention it’s likely the estate will have to be sold to cover the debts, leaving them homeless. Most of the Inverkillens haven’t left the estate in decades and are best at doing what can only be described as nothing. With the servants increasingly out of commission because of the mysterious virus,

Beth Cowan Erskine wrote the book during the lockdown

Mrs MacBain tries to keep everything “normal” while also conducting her own clever investigation of Lord Inverkillen’s death and in doing so uncovers a whole host of long-hidden secrets, lies and betrayals that will alter the dynamics of the household forever.

NEW FANTASY BOOK ADAPTATIONS: HUXLEY'S BRAVE NEW WORLD, JENN LYONS' THE RUIN OF KINGS, ADAM SILVERA'S THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END TO BECOME TV SERIES

'THE RUIN OF KINGS' TO

BECOME EPIC FANTASY TV SERIES

A number of new fantasy books are getting adaptations, people! Annapurna TV will turn Jenn Lyons' THE RUIN OF KINGS into an epic fantasy

The Ruin of Kings was published this month

television series. It is the first book of her five part saga A Chorus of Dragons.

Set in a sprawling, magic filled world populated by gods, dragons, krakens, witches, demons, ghosts, shape shifters and zombies, THE RUIN OF KINGS follows the story of Khirin, a young thief who discovers he may be the son of a prince and involved in a complex prophecy where he is more valuable alive than dead. Lyons, who worked as a graphic artist on video games before, has published this one just two weeks ago for Tor Books!

  'BRAVE NEW WORLD'

TO BECOME USA NETWORK SHOW

USA Network has taken over from SyFy the series adaptation of Aldous Huxley's seminal work BRAVE NEW WORLD set in a utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy,

Brave New World has been in work since 2015

privacy, money, family, and history itself. As citizens of New London, Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne have only ever known a rigid social order, a perfect pharmaceutical called Soma, and a culture of instant gratification and ubiquitous sex. Curious to explore life beyond the strictures of their society, the two New Worlders embark on a vacation to the Savage Lands, where they become embroiled in a harrowing and violent rebellion. Bernard and Lenina are rescued by John the Savage, who escapes with them back to New London. John’s arrival in the New World soon threatens to disrupt its utopian harmony, leaving Bernard and Lenina to grapple with the repercussions.

'THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END'

TO BECOME SF SHOW AT HBO

Silvera's bestseller will become HBO series

Over at HBO they've decided to turn Adam Silvera's fantasy novel THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END into a half hour series produced by Chris Kelly and J.J. Abrams. The story is set in the near future where everyone receives a bureaucratic phone call notifying them at the start of their last day on Earth! The series will follow a seemingly disparate group of people as they live their scary, funny, weird, hopeful, romantic, and unexpected final hours, all connected through the two gay teenage boys who are both looking to make a new friend on their End Day and will meet up for one last great adventure — to live a lifetime in a single day.