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One of the most adored writers of our time, Neil Gaiman is renowned for his dark and inventive stories seen in comic books, novels, and film adaptations. Alan Moore’s Swamp Things inspired him to begin his career as a journalist in the 1980s before starting to write for DC Comics. It was while working for DC Comics, that he created the ground-breaking series The Sandman.

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He immediately became well-known for his distinctive style, particularly in graphic novels where he gave horror and fantasy a twist. Numerous Gaiman stories have been made into movies and television shows. The adaptations won admirers all around the world. The list of his adaptations, ranked from worst to best, is given below.

12. How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2018)

The 2018 film How to Talk to Girls at Parties, which is based on Neil Gaiman’s 2006 short story, revolves around...

“Good Omens” has halted production on its third and final season, according to media reports.

The pause on the Prime Video fantasy series, which had been filming in Scotland, comes amid sexual assault allegations against author Neil Gaiman, which he has vehemently denied.

As filming takes a beat, “Good Omens” might undergo some production changes, per Deadline, who first reported the news. Representatives for Prime Video declined TheWrap’s request for comment.

Last week, Disney similarly put an adaptation of Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book” — which had Marc Forster attached to direct — on pause amid news of the allegations, according to a report from IndieWire. In August, Netflix announced that it didn’t opt to renew “Dead Boy Detectives,” which is based off of Gaiman’s comics, for a second season.

Allegations against Gaiman, who is behind modern classics like “American Gods,” “Coraline,” “Neverwhere” and “Stardust,” surfaced in July, when...

It’s a pretty great time to be a Neil Gaiman fan. Technically, it’s always a great time to be a Neil Gaiman fan, but it’s almost certainly never felt more fun than at this precise moment.

Good Omens, The Sandman, and American Gods have all been adapted for television within the past five years, each with a rather astonishing degree of accuracy and faithfulness-–certainly to the spirit, if not always the letter of the author’s most popular works. Both Sandman and Good Omens will return for future seasons, a series based on Gods spin-off Anansi Boys is set to debut on Prime Video in the not-too-distant future, and Dead Boy Detectives, a show that’s focused on several DC characters created by Gaiman has been reclaimed by Netflix as part of their expanding Sandman onscreen universe. Honestly, it’s wonderful to witness, and it certainly...

If you’re a tabletop RPG fan and a fan of Neil Gaiman‘s novel Neverwhere, Pizza Games has a little something for you with their current Kickstarter project, On the Odder Side. Utilizing the “Mark of the Odd” system and drawing inspiration from Into the Odd by Chris McDowall, On the Odder Side beckons players to venture into a realm filled with bizarre horrors and Victorian aesthetics.

On the Odder Side takes place in the city of Carcosa (though it has many names), where adventurers either lose their way or daringly cross an invisible boundary, leading them to the “shadow side” of the City. This familiar yet unsettling place grows stranger the longer they remain. The laws governing this realm are as mysterious and intricate as ancient faerie tales. Regardless of how you happen into this uncanny dimension, you must navigate its oddities to survive or find your way back home.

Looks aren’t everything (or so our mums tell us) but when there’s a brand new Doctor in the Tardis, they become pretty important. Tradition tells us that each Doctor has their own signature style – from Tom Baker’s iconic stripey scarf to Peter Davison’s cricket-and-celery combo, and Matt Smith’s “cool” bowtie – giving us clues about what kind of Doctor they’ll be.

So what will Ncuti Gatwa’s fifteenth Doctor be like? Details are scarce so far, but his fashion-forward costumes give us plenty of interesting hints…

No More Unchanging Doctor Costume

Finally, it looks like the Doctor is going to take the occasional shower.

Past Doctors have either stuck rigidly to a single costume – like William Hartnell’s suave, Victorian-era get-up or Colin Baker’s coat of many colours – or gone for a consistent look, like David Tennant wearing the same geek-chic suit in different colours,...

Ciaran Hinds joins ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ (Photo Credit: Prime Video)

Prime Video’s epic fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has signed on Ciarán Hinds, Rory Kinnear, and Tanya Moodie for season two. The just-announced new cast members will be featured in recurring roles in the upcoming season. Prime Video did not provide any details on who Hinds, Kinnear, or Moodie are playing.

Season two is currently shooting in the UK.

J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay return as showrunners, guiding the series through the Second Age of Middle-earth, a period prior to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books. Payne, McKay, Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, and Gennifer Hutchinson serve as executive producers.

In December 2022, it was announced Ben Daniels (The Exorcist), Nia Towle (Persuasion), Gabriel Akuwudike (Hanna), Yasen “Zates” Atour (The Witcher), Amelia Kenworthy,...

Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is expanding its ensemble cast.

Season 2 of the record-breaking series boasts franchise newcomers Ciarán Hinds, Rory Kinnear, and Tanya Moodie in recurring roles. The second season is currently in production in the U.K., with actors Calam Lynch, Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Stuart Bowman, Gavi Singh Chera, William Chubb, Kevin Eldon, Will Keen, Selina Lo, Gabriel Akuwudike, Yasen Atour, Amelia Kenworthy, Nia Towle, Ben Daniels, Nicholas Woodeson, and Sam Hazeldine previously announced as part of the new cast.

Oscar-nominated “Belfast” star Hinds has appeared in hit films like “Silence, ” “Munich,” “Persuasion,” “There Will Be Blood,” “In Bruges,” “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” and “The Eclipse.” His TV background includes appearances in “Game of Thrones,” “Rome,” “The English,” “Prime Suspect,” and “The Dry.”

“Rings of Power” co-star Kinnear is best known as Bill Tanner in the James Bond films “Quantum of Solace,...

The “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 2 cast is growing, as Oscar-nominated actor Ciarán Hinds is joining the ensemble alongside two other newcomers. Hinds, Rory Kinnear and Tanya Moodie have all been set for recurring roles in the second season of the Prime Video series.

Details about these new roles are being kept under lock and key up on Mount Doom for the time-being.

The second season of the fantasy show is currently in production in the UK.

Hinds most recently starred in Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” but is best known for roles in acclaimed films like “Munich,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” and “Silence,” and also appeared in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” as Aberforth Dumbledore. Hinds is no stranger to fantasy television having played Mance Rayder on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”

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Fans have been waiting for the TV adaptation of Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman’s 2005 fantasy novel about the two sons of the spider-god Anansi – for a long, long time.

Anticipation for Anansi Boys predates The Sandman, Good Omens and even American Gods when it comes to Neil Gaiman TV series. It was first reported that an adaptation was in the works back in 2014, but this project never came to be (parts were eventually incorporated into American Gods), so fans were excited to discover an Amazon Prime Video miniseries was in production back in 2020.

Three years later, we can almost taste it, so in anticipation here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming Anansi Boys:

It’s a Standalone Story… Developed From a Conversation with Sir Lenny Henry

Gaiman explains: ‘Anansi Boys began around 1996, from a conversation I had with Lenny Henry about writing a story that was...

Not only the Twelfth Doctor, but also an Oscar-winnning writer-director for his short film Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life, Peter Capaldi’s career spans almost four decades of impressive, inventive performances. Capaldi first truly captured the nation’s heart when he became sweary spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It in 2005, a role that could only be eclipsed for some by his stint in the Tardis.

After three glorious years of his Doctor, a terrific turn in The Personal History of David Copperfield, and popping up in the comic book world of The Suicide Squad, Capaldi’s latest venture – thriller The Devil’s Hour – is out now on Prime Video and reminding us what makes him so captivating on screen. Let’s revisit some of Peter Capaldi’s finest performances.

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Capaldi was just 25 when he landed one of his first roles in Local Hero, a warm,...

When it comes to stop-motion animated features, Henry Selick is in a league all his own. The acclaimed director of beloved films like "The Nightmare Before Christmas," "James and the Giant Peach," and "Monkeybone," is back with his first feature since "Coraline" -- the Netflix film, "Wendell and Wild." Based on Selick and Clay McLeod Chapman's unpublished book of the same name and from a script co-written by Selick and Jordan Peele, "Wendell and Wild" sees two titular demon brothers trying to convince a 13-year-old girl named Kat to summon them back into the land of the living. The film stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele as the dastardly duo, and Lyric Ross as Kat.

Stop-motion animation isn't easy, and as the industry becomes increasingly centered on CG, the art style is one we see less and less. /Film's own Jacob Hall paid a set visit with a group of journalists,...

From January 1989 until March 1996, Neil Gaiman's pivotal goth text "The Sandman" flooded the hearts of Doc Martens-wearing, clove cigarette-smoking, Fields of the Nephilim-listening teens the world over. The comic followed the downbeat, bitter adventures of Dream, a supernatural personification of human dreams, as he escaped a prolonged prison sentence in a fantasy kingdom, and set out traversing multiple dimensions to build up his power again. Dream frequently ran into other personified human concepts like Death, Destiny, Despair, and Delirium, and existed in a vast, complicated mythology world that your "Rocky Horror Picture Show"-attending buddies probably knew better than you. 

Because of its cult popularity, scuttlebutt about a "Sandman" feature film began to spread sometime in the mid-1990s. Recalling the time, the buzz seemingly became loudest following the release of Alex Proyas' ultra-Goth comic book adaptation "The Crow," a film that appeared to be visually and tonally in...

Veteran producer Bibby Dunn has been promoted to president of Mark Gordon Pictures.

In the expanded role, Dunn will run production and development, produce scripted film and television content, manage sales across broadcast, cable and streaming, and oversee operations of the company’s three offices in Los Angeles, New York and London.

“Bibby is a fantastic developer, a meticulous and tenacious producer and a wonderful human being most of all,” Gordon said, announcing Dunn’s promotion. “I have watched her grow and thrive over the past 8 years, and there is no one I would rather have lead our team of producers into the next chapter of our company.”

Dunn was instrumental in the launch of Mark Gordon Pictures in March 2020, following Gordon’s exit as President and Chief Content Officer of eOne in 2019.

“I’ve learned so much from Mark over the years and am honored to take on this...

Producer Bibby Dunn has been promoted to President of Mark Gordon Pictures. In the expanded role, Dunn will run production and development for the company, produce scripted film and television content, manage sales across broadcast, cable and streaming, and oversee operations of the company’s three offices in Los Angeles, New York and London.

“I’ve learned so much from Mark over the years and am honored to take on this new role at Mark Gordon Pictures,” Dunn said. “Just as Mark’s work has never been defined by any one genre or type, what I love about the company we are building is that everyone has a voice, and because of that we have an eclectic selection of projects that reflect our interest and passions. I am excited to be working alongside him and our fantastic team of producers as the company continues to grow into its next iteration.

Exclusive: Pascal Breton and Lionel Uzan’s Federation Entertainment, the production company behind Canal Plus’ cult spy series The Bureau, is extending its reach to the UK. The prolific indie player is partnering with former eOne Head of Scripted Polly Williams and former eOne VP of Scripted Arielle Gottlieb to launch a new London-based production outfit. The company has yet to be named.

Williams, who will join as Managing Director, and Gottlieb, who will join as Creative Director, will focus on working with premium drama creators to create ambitious English-language content for a global audience. The duo will also aim to bring more female-led content to the Federation slate.

The new venture currently has a slate of high-profile projects currently in development, which are expected to be announced shortly. The company will develop, produce and invest in drama for TV and film and says it will offer flexibility for creators...

Exclusive: Bcdf Pictures has picked up the rights to Melissa Grey’s Penguin Random House urban fantasy book series The Girl at Midnight, which they have been developing for TV and are now set to take out to buyers.

Chris Hill, recently announced as scribe of runner biopic Tether, is developing the first novel in the series, with Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures executive-producing.

New York, Los Angeles and France-based Bcdf has a busy slate of YA and book-to-screen properties and is in post-production on Lucy Hale starrer The Hating Game and Andrea Riseborough-Allison Janney-Marc Maron pic To Leslie, directed by Michael Morris (Bloodline). Nick Robinson and Kiersey Clemons are due to star in The Language of Flowers.

Described by Bcdf as reminiscent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, The Girl at Midnight sees a modern NYC girl...

“For years, I’ve said that I would rather have no adaptation of Sandman than a bad adaptation,” says Neil Gaiman – and for years we’ve had no Sandman adaptation. But perhaps surprisingly, given the very visual nature of a graphic novel, the first one to make it past the finish line is an audiobook – more than an audiobook, a scripted audio drama, something akin to a radio play or perhaps an ‘audio movie’ of the first three volumes of Gaiman’s The Sandman graphic novel series. It might not be the adaptation audiences were clamoring for but it works surprisingly well and might just set a path for a whole new way of consuming classic storytelling during a time when traditional screen productions are stymied.

Directed by Dirk Maggs who is well known in radio for producing complex, immersive and cinematic audio productions, the new Sandman adaptation has a...

Audible and DC have announced the voice cast for their upcoming audio drama adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s The Sandman and it’s absolutely stacked. James McAvoy will star in the title role of The Sandman, aka Lord Morpheus. He will be joined by Michael Sheen as Lucifer, Riz Ahmed as The Corinthian, Kat Dennings as Death, Taron Egerton as John Constantine, Samantha Morton as Urania Blackwell, Bebe Neuwirth as The Siamese Cat, and Andy Serkis as Matthew the Raven. The narrator will be voiced by Gaiman himself.

Rounding out the cast in supporting roles includes Arthur Darvill as William Shakespeare, Justin Vivian Bond as Desire, William Hope as Doctor Destiny, Matthew Horne as Hob Gadling, Reginald D. Hunter as J’onn J’onzz, Sue Johnston as Unity Kinkaid, Paterson Joseph as The Demon Choronzon, Josie Lawrence as Mad Hettie, Anton Lesser as Doctor John Hathaway, Joanna Lumley as Lady Johanna Constantine,...

James McAvoy and Kat Dennings lead a packed cast for the first audio adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed graphic novel series, The Sandman. The first installment of the multi-part series will arrive July 15th via Audible.

McAvoy will star in the audio series as Dream, one of seven god-like siblings known as the Endless who oversee various aspects of human life. At the start of the series, Dream is captured by an occultist — who’s actually looking to kidnap another Endless sibling, Death (voiced by Dennings). He’s held...

DC and Audible are gearing up to bring Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman to ears everywhere. Gaiman will serve as the creative director, executive producer, and narrator on the project, which will be available exclusively on Audible in summer 2020.

Dirk Maggs, who has worked on audio adaptations of Gaiman’s Neverwhere, Stardust, Good Omens, and Anansi Boys, will serve as executive producer, scriptwriter, and director for the project. In addition to his Gaiman adaptations, he has helmed the DC audio productions The Trial of Superman, Superman: To Doomsday & Beyond, and Batman: Knightfall.

“Almost 30 years ago, Dirk Maggs approached DC about adapting The Sandman into audio form” said Gaiman in a statement. “It didn’t happen (although it was how Dirk and I first crossed paths) and I’m glad it didn’t happen, because we are in a Golden Age of audio drama right now, and Dirk and I are...

Amazon Prime Video is bringing the end of the world to SXSW and I feel fine. Neil Gaiman’s forthcoming limited series Good Omens is ready to celebrate the apocalypse at the Austin-based confab with multiple events starting March 8, the opening weekend of the fest.

Based on the novel, Good Omens is set to debut on the streaming service May 31, but SXSW attendees can experience the series in all its apocalyptic glory in Austin. Activities will include appearances and conversations with the show’s executive producer Gaiman (who also wrote the book), director and executive producer Douglas Mackinnon, as well as series stars Michael Sheen, David Tennant and Jon Hamm.

In the spirit of immersive SXSW activations and events like last year’s Westworld and Ready Player One setups, Good Omens will have plenty of Armageddon fun for everyone. From March 8-11, the “Good Omens Garden of Earthly Delights,” will...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Olivia Wilde, and Henry Winkler have been added as speakers at the South by Southwest Conference.

Wilde, Endeavor exec Bozoma Saint John, and Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger are part of the keynote lineup. Ocasio-Cortez and Winkler are featured speakers, along with A$AP Rocky, Pamela Adlon, Neil Gaiman, Sen. Mazie Hirono, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman, David Crosby, and Cameron Crowe.

“We’ve been fortunate to have Olivia Wilde at SXSW numerous times as an actress and producer, and we’re always impressed by her talent and her intelligence,” said Janet Pierson, the festival’s director of film. “We could not be more excited to have her here as a Film Keynote on the eve of her outstanding directorial debut, ‘Booksmart.'”

Ocasio-Cortez, who won a Congressional seat in New York last year, will be seen in a discussion with Briahna Gray, senior politics editor at the Intercept.

Do too many cooks spoil the broth? That seems to be the opinion of Neil Gaiman on his experience with Doctor Who.

The American Gods, Sandman and Neverwhere writer was doing a talk to promote his upcoming TV adaptation of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast when he opened up to Deadline on his frustrations with the changes the show makes to existing scripts.

Gaiman’s working with Being Human‘s Toby Whithouse on Gormenghast and discussed the day when both his and Whithouse’s script were having a table read, saying:

“The nearest we’d ever come to working together was when we met at a reading of Doctor Who, Toby’s episode had been read that morning and mine in the afternoon. “We definitely liked each other and we liked each other’s work. Because I was writing Doctor Who, I had the privilege of reading Toby’s script, which...

Good Omens and American Gods creator Neil Gaiman is staying in business with Amazon after striking an overall deal with Amazon Studios.

The British writer has signed an exclusive deal with the company to create television series that will premiere on Amazon Prime Video in over 200 countries and territories around the world.

This comes ahead of the launch of Good Omens, the book that he wrote with Sir Terry Pratchett, which launches on Amazon Prime Video in 2019 with David Tennant and Michael Sheen.

Gaiman is a prolific author, whose work crosses comics, books, film, journalism and drama. The second season of American Gods is set to launch on Starz next year. He previously wrote the screenplay for BBC series Neverwhere and his character The Sandman was adapted for Fox’s Lucifer.

In film, he wrote Mirrormask, for the Jim Henson Company and co-wrote the script to Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf...

Louisa Mellor Dec 20, 2017

With Anansi Boys coming to BBC Radio 4, we chatted to Sir Lenny Henry about Neil Gaiman, film, comics and a potential Neverwhere revival...

On Christmas Day, BBC Radio 4 will air the first episode of a new dramatisation of Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys featuring Lenny Henry as the voice of Mr Nancy, aka spider god Anansi, the father of two very special sons.

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We spoke to the actor-writer about his personal relationship with the West African and West Indian Anansi stories, his friendship with Gaiman and their collaboration on 1996 BBC Two series Neverwhere, making films, reading comics, the urgent need for more diversity on television, and more...

What are your first memories of hearing the Anansi stories? Were you told them as a child?

The Anansi stories were...

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Lenny Henry stars in the voice cast for this year's 6-part Christmas BBC Radio 4 Neil Gaiman drama, Anansi Boys…

Like satsumas and hangovers, the annual BBC Radio 4 Neil Gaiman drama has established itself as an essential festive tradition. Following its 2013 Neverwhere dramatisation, Radio 4 brought us Good Omens, Stardust, and How The Marquis Got His Coat Back, as well as featuring The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains as a book of the week, all at Christmastime.

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This year’s Xmas radio drama will be Anansi Boys, adapted from Neil Gaiman’s 2005 novel. It’s the story of two estranged brothers, gods, magic, African folk tales, and spiders. The first of the six episodes is due to air on December the 25th.

Neil Gaiman has become the new Isaac Asimov of sci-fi/fantasy writers whose stories go big. He's had the good fortune of having American Gods being a success on Starz, Lucifer on Fox, and a podcast radio show Neverwhere starring Benedict Cumberbatch and James Macavoy. He writes such interesting and promising stories, and one of his best is about to be made into a series at Amazon.

Good Omens is a collaboration by Gaiman and Terry Pratchet. It's a novel about a Demon and an Angel right before the end of the world who don't want it to happen yet. It has so many of Gaiman's great storytelling sensibilities and Pratchet's brilliant comedy.

Producers of the series have cast Michael Sheen to play the angel, Aziraphale, and David Tennant as the demon, Crowley. This already sounds like so much fun. Just to see those two in a series together is one thing,...

I've been catching up on the Sandman comics recently, and have fallen madly, deeply in love with them. But I'm not surprised, as I've loved author Neil Gaiman's other works, such as American Gods, Stardust, Neverwhere, and even his Marvel 1602 series. Not only that, but his adapted works - such as those of the aforementioned American Gods and Stardust - were also great as well. And... Read More...

So I've been watching American Gods - based on Neil Gaiman's novel of the same name - and it's pretty fucking amazing. Beautiful, surreal, well-acted, and with a great and interesting story. Sure, while there's still no Sandman, I'd argue Neil Gaiman has had a decent go at adaptations of his stories. I mean, Stardust is also delightful, and while not perfect the Neverwhere... Read More...

Forgive me, Constant Reader, but I am still somewhat hungover from my Eisner Awards weekend. As evidence, I tell you that I have the new issue of one of my favorite titles, Bitch Planet, in my apartment, but I have not yet read it.

(I may read it during the course of writing this, because I plan to have lunch today. Stay tuned.)

So this week, I plan to talk about something that is not comics, but comics-adjacent, American Gods, the new series on Starz based on the novel by Neil Gaiman.

My colleagues in this space, Emily Whitten and Mindy Newell, have already written about the great cast and the tight scripting. I want to talk about some aspects of the show that are more ephemeral.

I haven’t read American Gods since it was published in 2001, but I remember being knocked out by it. The story of a war was not that unusual,...

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HeyUGuys were on hand to witness the beaming of Audible’s new audio drama Alien: River of Pain into space at an exclusive first-listen event. It was held at the stunning Royal Observatory in Greenwich’s planetarium ahead of the audio drama’s release on 26th April, which is officially Alien Day.

In many ways the location is perfect for such an event as the Royal Observatory Greenwich is one of the most important historic scientific sites in the world. Since its founding in 1675, Greenwich has been at the centre of the measurement of time and space, and you can actually still stand on the historic Prime Meridian line there. In many ways it was completely surreal to be there to witness an occasion that was part Carl Sagan’s Contact and part showbiz extravaganza at its finest.

Engrossed in the pitch-black dome of the Planetarium, audiences...

Louisa Mellor Dec 12, 2016

We’ve taken a pen to the UK Christmas TV and radio schedules and circled the shows we’re looking forward to. Add yours below!

Amid the cosy repeats, big movies and inescapable cranberry-stuffed cookery shows on TV this month are a few original gems. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s Inside No. 9 festive special The Devil Of Christmas (Tuesday the 27th of December, 10pm, BBC Two) is top of our must-watch list. Hot on its heels is Yonderland’s family friendly Yonder Yuletide (Saturday the 24th of December, 6.30pm, Sky One). Another for families on Sky is the Christmas Day Jasper Fforde adaptation The Last Dragonslayer, while Channel 4 has the non-festive-but-essential-for-fans-of smart-sci-fi Humans series two finale (Sunday the 18th of December, 9pm).

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Not to forget, of course, the Doctor Who Christmas Special, a brand-new series of Sherlock,...

Louisa Mellor Sep 26, 2016

Neverwhere prequel How The Marquis Got His Coat Back and Stardust are the next Neil Gaiman dramas coming to BBC Radio 4...

That BBC Radio 4 is following up its successful 2013 Neverwhere adaptation with a one-off audio dramatisation of a Neverwhere prequel short story has been something of an open secret* these past months.

How The Marquis Got His Coat Back produced and directed by Dirk Maggs and Heather Larmour, featuring voice performances from Adrian Lester, Paterson Joseph, Don Warrington, Bernard Cribbins and more, will be broadcast in November.

BBC Radio 4 evidently hasn't finished raiding Gaiman's archives either. A two-part dramatisation of his 1999 novel Stardust, which was made into a 2007 film directed by Matthew Vaughan, will come to the airwaves this Christmas.

Matthew Beard and Sophie Rundle will be playing leads Tristan and Yvaine in the fantasy romance, which is recording this week in London. Joining them are Charlotte Riley,...

British scribe Neil Gaiman is a pop culture juggernaut, responsible for a myriad of novels, short stories, films, television series, graphic novels and radio shows. Coming into awareness as a fantasy writer, his magnum opus is a series of graphic novels about Dream, one of the Endless, also known as The Sandman, which he penned for Vertigo. Gaiman, no stranger to either the small nor big screen, created the darker urban fantasy series Neverwhere for BBC Two, which later was turned into a novel under the same title. With the current boom of television production, it would be a sin to omit one of the beloved fantasy authors. The premium network Starz ordered the adaptation of Gaiman´s bestselling novel American Gods, a project rumored to...

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A heads-up for sci-fi fans. BBC Radio 4’s Dangerous Visions season is back for 3 weeks, starting this Sunday the 22nd of May…

Since Buck Rogers hit the airwaves in 1930s America and Orson Welles put the willies up listeners with his chill retelling of The War Of The Worlds, radio has long been a friend to science-fiction.

Happily, BBC Radio 4 continues that fine tradition with a new season of sci-fi programming over the next few weeks, including new commissions as well as dramatisations and readings of work by Aldous Huxley, John Wyndham and Kazuo Ishiguro.

Dangerous Visions, so named for the celebrated 1960s Harlan Ellison-edited sci-fi anthology, returns on Sunday the 22nd of May with Huxley’s Brave New World, with Anton Lesser. Then it’s an invasion classic with a dramatisation of Wyndham’s The Kraken Wakes featuring Tamsin Grieg, with versions of William Morris' News From Nowhere,...

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Face The Raven was certainly a momentous episode and while it wasn’t the penultimate episode of Doctor Who series nine, it followed the grand tradition of stories like Utopia and Turn Left, which started as self-contained episodes before leading directly into the series finale.

Even on its own it stands as a great episode; a Neverwhere-meets Harry Potter secret Trap Street in the heart of London, filled with aliens all seeking sanctuary. The return of Ashildr / Me, more mysterious than ever. The deadly Raven sent to steal your soul when the numbers on your neck counted down to zero. And of course the dramatic death of long-serving companion Clara Oswald a whole two weeks earlier than her expected departure.

And with Ashildr’s trap for the Doctor and Clara’s death there are many questions going into Steven Moffat’s latest series finale. Just what does this...

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Sky Arts has earned some nerdy respect by green-lighting a series inspired by Neil Gaiman’s short stories…

Here’s some exciting news. Sky Arts have ordered Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories, a new TV series based on “the fantastical short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman.”

We’re told that the anthology series will consist of four episodes, with an ensemble cast that appears in all of them. Exactly which Gaiman stories the show will adapt remain to be seen. There are plenty to choose from, though, across Gaiman’s four volumes of short stores - Angels And Visitations, Smoke And Mirrors, Fragile Things and Trigger Warning. One story that’s probably off the table is How To Talk To Girls At Parties – that one’s already in production as a movie.

We do know that independent production company Sid Gentle Films will produce the episodes,...

Two new horror adaptations are coming to BBC Radio 4 this Halloween as part of Fright Night, The Stone Tape and The Ring…

While all the cool kids will be tripping over high heels and falling out of Borat mankinis on sticky dancefloors this Saturday the 31st of October, all the really cool kids will be elsewhere come Halloween: headphones on, mug of spooky cocoa in hand, listening to BBC Radio 4.

As part of Radio 4’s first annual Fright Night of Halloween programming, two exciting horror dramas are on their way: The Stone Tape, adapted from Nigel “Quatermass” Kneale’s 1972 television play, and The Ring, adapted from Koji Sozuki’s 1991 film franchise-spawning novel.

Kneale’s television play, first broadcast in 1972 as a BBC Christmas ghost story, tells the tale of a group of scientists investigating a haunted mansion whose walls are thought to have absorbed and recorded past events. It’s...

The Hunger Games' Francis Lawrence is linked to a new Neverwhere TV series, adapted from Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry's original...

Here's another one to add to the already impressively long list of Neil Gaiman adaptations currently in development: a new TV version of Neverwhere is reportedly in the works.

Deadline is reporting that Us movie and TV producer Mark Gordon has joined forces with The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence on two new television projects, one of which is to be a new version of Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry's Neverwhere.

Gordon and Lawrence's second newly announced venture is a TV adaptation of House Of Thieves, a mystery novel by Charles Belfoure.

The new Neverwhere series is being touted as an adaptation of Gaiman and Henry's 1996 six-part BBC series (feat. Peter Capaldi with a luxuriant bouffant), which arguably came a few years too early for the...

Neil Gaiman fans who know Neverwhere probably break down into two groups, roughly by age: those who were introduced to the stories by the not-so-satisfying (but fondly remembered) 1996 BBC TV version and novel and the more recent Radio 4 dramatization. Hunger Games regular director Francis Lawrence is looking to add a third group, those who know a planned new drama series. Lawrence is aboard to help develop the new telly take with the Mark Gordon Company, working up a fresh version of the adventures of Door and Richard Mayhew, which kicks off when the latter is drawn into a struggle for the control of the mysterious, hidden netherworld above, below and on the streets of London.Assuming it goes ahead, Lawrence will handle directorial chores on that series and one other, as he’s also part of a deal to bring a show based on Charles Belfoure’s novel House Of Thieves to screens.

The Hunger Games has been good to director Francis Lawrence. His career was set in a new, more firm direction by the success of the second film in the franchise, and he’s soon to see the release of his third Hunger Games movie, and the final movie in the film series. That leaves him with options, […]

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With “The Hunger Games” movie franchise coming to a close this fall, director Francis Lawrence is lining up new projects. This one may be worth getting excited about. Lawrence will direct the pilot for a new TV take on Neil Gaiman’s “Neverwhere,” Deadline reported today. “Neverwhere” was a six-episode urban fantasy TV series on BBC that aired in 1996. During the show’s run, Gaiman released a novel version of the story, which is about a man who finds his ordinary life changed forever on the day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. After that encounter, he’s propelled into the hidden world of “London Below” — a dark subculture flourishing in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels — as he ceases to exist in London Above. Lawrence (who directed three of the four “Hunger Games” films) seems like a good fit: He proved with...

Mark Gordon has teamed with Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence and Lawrence’s longtime producing partner and manager Erwin Stoff for two drama series projects: Neverwhere, an adaptation of fantasy writer Neil Gaiman's BBC miniseries and subsequent novel, and House Of Thieves, based on the just-released mystery novel by Charles Belfoure. Gordon’s independent production studio, the Mark Gordon Company, which is backed by Entertainment One, will fund the development of…...

"The Hunger Games" sequels director Francis Lawrence, his producing partner Erwin Stoff, and the Mark Gordon Company are teaming for two high-profile drama series adaptations.

The first is "Neverwhere," an adaptation of writer Neil Gaiman's urban fantasy BBC miniseries and subsequent novel. Lenny Henry co-created the original 1990s mini-series in which a man helps an injured girl, only to find himself pulled into the fantastical world of London Below.

The other is "House Of Thieves," based on the just-released mystery novel by Charles Belfoure. Set in 1886 New York, a respectable architect finds himself blackmailed into helping a gang of thieves craft plans for robberies that even the smartest detectives won't solve.

Lawrence is attached to direct both dramas, which he is executive producing with Gordon and Stoff.

Source: Deadline...

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

During The CW's upfront presentation, it was indicated that the ensemble DC Comics superhero show "Legends of Tomorrow" would be premiering in January. Now, an official tweet from the show's writers room indicates we won't see the series until a few months later - sometime in the spring.

Whether it will be fully after or during the next seasons of "Arrow" and "The Flash" is unknown at this point. Actor Grant Gustin, speaking at the Saturn Awards, tells Collider he's "going to be a part of that [Legends] right out of the gates as well". He also indicates next season of "The Flash" will sport a season long 'Big Bad' who will be "revealed kind of immediately".

American Gods

Famed fantasy author Neil Gaiman will pen episodes of the upcoming Starz series "American Gods" which is based on Gaiman's novel. Producer Bryan Fuller confirmed Gaiman's work for...

The world of entertainment has been paying tribute to Sir Christopher Lee, who has died at the age of 93.

The prolific British actor was best-known for his work with Hammer Horror as well as The Wicker Man and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and many stars and fans have paid tribute to the star on Twitter today (June 10).

It's terribly when you lose an old friend, and Christopher Lee was one of my oldest. We first met in 1948.

— Sir Roger Moore (@sirrogermoore) June 11, 2015

I'm saddened by the deaths of Sir Christopher Lee and Ron Moody. Both starred in films that are treasured by millions.

— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) June 11, 2015

The great, always criminally underrated Sir Christopher Lee has left us. A Titan of Cinema and a huge part of my youth. Farewell.

— Mark Gatiss (@Markgatiss) June 11, 2015

An extraordinary man and life lead, Sir Christopher Lee. You were an icon,...

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Neil Gaiman, writer of The Doctor’s Wife and Nightmare in Silver, has won an Outstanding Contribution Award for his audio work. The American Gods novelist was presented his award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards in London, winning for his work adapting his books Neverwhere and Good Omens, the latter alongside Terry Pratchett. Rather perfectly, it was given to Gaiman by...

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Following the news that another hopeful heir apparent to the Saturday night Doctor Who slot - fantasy series Atlantis - has bitten the dust, what should the BBC should try next?

The return of Saturday night family adventure

Not so very long ago, the idea of an early evening adventure show on BBC One - on Saturday night no less - that the whole family would happily sit down to enjoy was seen as impossible. That time had passed, the audience was now too fragmented, there's just no way you could get people from eight to 89 to all sit together and watch the same narrative show.

Then, the BBC took a risk. With big swingers like writer Russell T Davies and then-bbc drama commissioner Jane Tranter fighting its corner, that old, dead TV legend Doctor Who lurched back into life... and it worked. People of all ages tuned in, the viewing figures stacked up,...

Paterson Joseph chats to us about Good Omens, Peep Show, being cut from Paddington, and why he'd "never say never" to playing the Doctor...

Where do you begin with Paterson Joseph? Be it on stage or the small screen, he’s popped up everywhere from Shakespeare to Survivors, from Casualty to Green Wing. To some, he’s the suave, sharply dressed and, latterly, lapsed alcoholic Alan Johnson in Peep Show. But to others, this writer included, he’ll always be the mysterious, flamboyant swashbuckler, the Marquis de Carabas, from Neil Gaiman’s rich sub-London fantasy Neverwhere.

Now, he’s appearing on BBC Radio 4 in a festive double bill of prestige productions. First, he’s giving voice to fast-food mogul and horseman of the apocalypse Famine in Good Omens, adapted from the novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Then, on New Year’s Day, he’s Pierre, the passionate protagonist...

Tune in to BBC Radio 4 Mon 22nd to Sat 27th of December for the adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens...

Here's a festive gift we can open a wee bit early: BBC Radio 4 has confirmed that its six-part Good Omens adaptation will start on Monday the 22nd of December at 11pm, running throughout the Christmas week and culminating with an hour-long episode on Saturday the 27th of December (presumably just after tea). 

Geek radio drama doyen Dirk Maggs (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Neverwhere) has adapted Gaiman and Pratchett's 1990 comic apocalypse novel for the airwaves. Maggs and producer Heather Larmour have amassed an impressive cast for the series, led by Mark Heap and Peter Serafinowicz as angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley respectively. Those two are joined by Colin Morgan, Josie Lawrence, Paterson Joseph, Clive Russell, Phil Davis, Louise Brealey and more. Think of it as a geek Christmas selection box,...