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Teresa Palmer and Matthew Goode Will Star in “A Discovery of Witches”

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LIGHTS OUT courtesy of Warner Bros and New Line

Way back in 2011, we learned that Warner Bros. was attempting to turn Deborah Harkness’s novel A Discovery of Witches into a film franchise, but nothing ever came from that planned project. Now, the novel is heading to the small screen.

Tracking Board reports today that Teresa Palmer (Lights Out) and Matthew Goode (Stoker) will star in “A Discovery of Witches,” a TV series hailing from Britain’s SKY and production company Bad Wolf. Palmer will play heroine Diana Bishop, while Goode has been cast as her vampire lover, Matthew Clairmont.

“In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.”

Kate Brooke will be writer and showrunner, with Julie Gardner and Deborah Harkness on board to executive produce.

A Discovery of Witches, published in 2011, was the first novel in a trilogy.

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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August

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We told you earlier this month that horror legend Clive Barker is leaving the convention scene behind to focus entirely on his writing, with various upcoming projects in the works.

A series of final appearances from Barker will begin at Days of the Dead Chicago this month, and we’ve learned Barker will also be coming to Monster Mania in New Jersey.

Clive Barker will be signing at Monster Mania 59 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which runs from August 2 – August 4, 2024. Stay tuned for more info from the convention.

Barker’s official statement earlier this month explained, “… it’s time to focus entirely on writing. I’m not stopping public events because I’ve lost delight in meeting you all over the years. I’m as passionate as ever about sharing my imagination with readers and moviegoers around the world. In the very room where I’m writing these words, I have the manuscripts for a very large number of projects (Thirty-one of them), some very close to completion, others still telling themselves. There are some wild projects in this collection of works, whether close to finished or done. There are also stories that you all knew I would be finishing.”

“Abarat IV and V are amongst the books at my feet,” he continued. “So is the Third and final book of The Art and the sequel to The Thief of Always. There are also return visits to characters and mythologies you may have thought I would never return to.

“I hope I am still able to surprise you in the decades ahead.”

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