{"id":18497,"date":"2015-11-04T07:41:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T06:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18497"},"modified":"2015-11-04T07:41:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T06:41:10","slug":"bbc-one-to-film-his-dark-materials-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18497","title":{"rendered":"BBC One to film &#8220;His Dark Materials&#8221; trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/news\/2015-11-03\/philip-pullmans-fantasy-series-his-dark-materials-is-being-adapted-for-bbc1\">great news<\/a> that BBC One is to produce a television adaptation of the brilliant &#8220;His Dark Materials&#8221; trilogy by Philip Pullman.<\/p>\n<p>I really admired the books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Northern Lights&#8221; &#8211; my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#HDM1\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;The Subtle Knife&#8221; -my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#HDM2\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">&#8220;The Amber Spyglass&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0my review<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#HDM3\"> here<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first novel was turned into a film called &#8220;The Golden Compass&#8221; [my review<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Films:G#TGC\"> here<\/a>], but it did not have critical success and the other two books were never filmed.<\/p>\n<p>Also I saw the two-part stage production at London\u2019s National Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>So you can see I am a fan and excited about the planned television production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s great news that BBC One is to produce a television adaptation of the brilliant &#8220;His Dark Materials&#8221; trilogy by Philip Pullman. I really admired the books: &#8220;Northern Lights&#8221; &#8211; my review here &#8216;The Subtle Knife&#8221; -my review here &#8220;The Amber Spyglass&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0my review here The first novel was turned into a film called &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18497"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18506,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18497\/revisions\/18506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}