The BBC’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy hasn’t aired yet, but the network has already renewed the series for a second season, reports Deadline.
The series will adapt Pullman’s The Golden Compass and, presumably, its follow-ups The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. The epic series is set in an alternate world similar to ours except human souls are manifested externally as an animal that shape-shifts until puberty when it settles into a final form. Its protagonist is a girl named Lyra Belacqua who sets off for the Arctic to rescue a kidnapped friend and stumbles into a conspiracy by this universe’s equivalent of the Catholic Church to uncover and exploit the nature of a particle known as Dust. The Golden…
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