The BBC
has commissioned a six-part TV mini-series based on Susanna Clarke's highly successful 2004 novel,
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. The novel is set in an alternate-history England during the Napoleonic Wars and features two magicians who are employed by the government to help defeat France, but soon fall to bickering between them. There is huge number of other characters and subplots, some of which I imagine will be dropped or reduced for the TV show.
Peter Harness (
Wallander,
City of Vice) is writing, whilst Toby Haynes (
Sherlock,
Doctor Who,
Being Human,
Wallander) is directing. The series is expected to go into production in 2013 for transmission in 2014.
There has been no recent word on the progress on the
Jonathan Strange sequel. Clarke took a decade to write the first book, and it looks like the sequel will take just as long to appear.
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