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pwhodges:

--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 06 Jan 2020, 11:10 ---Given it's HBO, I guess anything is possible...they could just make 3 seasons for the 3 books, they could deviate from the books a lot, or they could make 5 seasons out of the 3 books...

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It was commissioned by and for the BBC, with HBO handling international distribution.  The BBC premiere was a day before the HBO premiere.

But as it's known to be three series, it's a good assumption that they correspond closely to the books - though I note that they dropped a few facts from other parts of the story into the first episode, before we knew them if reading (e.g. we've seen a Window, and Sir Charles slipping through it - which we don't read about at all till the second book).

They started filming the second series before the first went out, to avoid their star ageing more than she should; presumably that'll happen again for the last part.  Not (presumably) by chance, BBC radio is currently serialising the first part of The Book of Dust, read by Simon Russell-Beale.

Obviously much of the earlier part of the series was filmed right here in Oxford.  I've recognised New College Chapel, and parts of Corpus Christi (my old college), playing the part of Jordan College, also some street views.

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