Whispers Under Ground: Doctor Who Screenwriter Ben Aaronovitch's superbly entertaining supernatural crime series has, with its witty one-liners and wonderfully erudite take on London, won a legion of fans in double quick time. And it's why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognised the tune it was playing.
Moon Over Soho: I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea, and that's how I know my Argo from my Tempo. Rivers of London: My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). Reviewing Amongst Our Weapons in the Guardian, Lisa Tuttle said that “Aaronovitch has no peers when it comes to successfully combining the appeal of a down-to-earth police procedural with all-out fantasy”.Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London Series Collection 8 Books Set: The first book, which gives the Rivers of London series its name, was published in 2011. As a longstanding fan, it is a huge honour to be partnering with Ben to bring his unique blend of contemporary urban fantasy and gripping detective stories to the screen.”Īaronovitch will be an executive producer, and said he was “confident that together we can produce some ridiculously brilliant television”. Tom Winchester, founder of Pure Fiction Television, said: “Anybody that loves British fantasy knows the name PC Peter Grant and the world of Rivers of London, where gods and goddesses walk amongst us on the city streets. This is not the first attempt to adapt the series: in 2019 it was announced that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Stolen Picture was going to produce a TV version.
The TV adaptation will be co-produced by Pure Fiction Television, See-Saw Films and Aaronovitch’s own production company Unnecessary Logo. The books have consistently featured on bestseller lists, with the most recent two novels – 2022’s Amongst Our Weapons and 2020’s False Value – going straight to No 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. ‘Something hot’ … Ben Aaronovitch Photograph: PR
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