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With Guillermo del Toro on producing duties and Amazon coughing up the cash, this dark fantasy about

a serial killer murdering a city’s immigrant magical creature population sounds right up our street.

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45. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
    reboot/spin-off

Showrunner

Monica owusu-Breen

Cast

TBc

Release date

TBA

47. The Dark Crystal:
    Age Of Resistance

Director

Louis Leterrier

Cast

TBc

Air date

2019

Eighties babies better get ready to be terrified by puppets again, because Jim Henson’s The Dark

Crystal is getting an all-puppet prequel thanks to Netflix and Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier.

44. His Dark Materials
    Showrunner: Jack Thorne
    Cast: Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy,
    Lin-Manuel Miranda
    Release date: 2019

The BBC’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s beloved trilogy of books is still in production, but it has already

been granted a second season by the BBC, and has been picked up by HBO for international distribution.

The eight episode first season will focus on Lyra (Loga n’s Dafne Keen)’s adventures in the first book, in

which she leaves her Oxford home to rescue her kidnapped friend. Along the way she encounters talking

armoured polar bears and witches, and learns the truth of her complicated parentage.

Cara

Delevingne

leads the cast of

Carnival Row.

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48. The Witcher
    Showrunner: Lauren Schmidt
    Cast: Henry Cavill, Freya Allan,
    Anya Chalotra
    Release date: 2019

The popular series of short stories,

novels and games is getting the small screen

treatment thanks to Netflix and Superman

himself. This full-blown fantasy centres on

Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter, who finds

himself thrown together with a sorceress and

a young princess.

A guide to

fantasy wigs

The noble adventurer

His locks are long and lustrous, but

crucially not too shiny. His hair should

always look in need of a good brush,

but should never tip over into greasiness.

See: Aragorn, Geralt of Rivia

The princess

Long, preferably blonde, with some

complicated plaiting going on. Bonus

points if her ears are poking out.

See: Princess Zelda,

Daenerys Targaryen

The witch

Big hair. Hair that would put the

Eighties to shame. Just so much hair.

See: Bellatrix Lestrange

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"Into every generation a slayer is
born." As iconic and era-defining
as Buffy The Vampire Slayer
was, it seems perfectly natural
that it’s something that could and
maybe should evolve with every
generation. With a fresh new
voice and (ideally) a new Slayer,
a new BTVS could not only take
advantage of a new era of genre
on TV, but the frequently horrific
and challenging new world we
find ourselves in.”
“Were this set to be a complete
reboot, I’d be incandescent with
rage about the whole thing. As
it is, I’m just not sure what the
point is. Wouldn’t a completely
new vampire mythology, which
redefines the genre for a new
generation, be far more forward-
thinking than simply just raking
over Joss Whedon’s old IP? At
least that way the show wouldn’t
have to battle against its own
sky-high reputation.”
For: Jonathan Hatfull Against: Abigail Chandler

46. The Watch
    Showrunner: Simon Allen
    Cast: TBC
    Release date: TBC

BBC America is bringing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld to life with this

eight-part original series. The Watch will focus on a group of Pratchett’s

misfit cops as they try to save their little patch of Discworld. Expect to see

plenty of your favourite Pratchett characters including, of course, Death.

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