Sundance Now And Shudder Team Up For “A Discovery Of Witches” Series Adaptation
Sundance Now and Shudder have teamed up for the first time and acquired the rights to author Deborah Harkness‘ best-selling novel “A Discovery of Witches” for a series adaptation. The series has an amazing cast that includes Emmy® nominated actor Matthew Goode (The Crown, Downtown Abbey), Teresa Palmer (Hacksaw Ridge), Alex Kingston (Er, Doctor Who), Valarie Pettiford (Being Mary Jane), and Owen Teale (Game of Thrones). The eight-episode series will be produced by Bad Wolf, the team behind “The Night Of”, “Doctor Who”, “Torchwood”, “Da Vinci’s Demons”, and the upcoming adaptation of Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials”. Filmed in the UK’s Wolf Studios Wales and on location in Oxford, “A Discovery of Witches” is a contemporary love story that begins against the backdrop of Oxford academic life, in a world where small numbers of witches, vampires, and demons live an work, unseen amongst humans, hiding in plain sight. Teresa Plamers plays the brilliant historian Diana Bishop, a reluctant witch denying
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