Sky to Adapt 'Rivers of London' as a TV Series

We are nearly 15 years into TV's fantasy revolution, kicked off in 2011 by Game of Thrones. In that time, TV production studios scooped up rights left and right for all the major fantasy series, from the BBC making His Dark Materials to Starz's Outlander. (Heck, even *MTV* made a Shannara series.) At this point, the new shows are starting to feel derivative, whether it's Dune Prophecy, House of the Dragon, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, or HBO remaking Harry Potter. However, a few series are still coming down the pipeline, like Netflix's short-lived Shadow & Bone, with something new to offer, like Sky's latest project, Rivers of London.

Rivers of London (initially published in the U.S. under the title Midnight Riot) is a contemporary urban fantasy that combines magic with one of the U.K.'s favorite genres, the police procedural. The series, which currently stands at ten full-length novels (including the most recent installment, 2024's The Masquerades of Spring), ten graphic novels, and four novellas, begins with the adventures of PC Peter Grant, an officer at the London Metropolitan Police, who finds himself working on a case where the witness is a ghost. That leads him to be recruited to London's small but busy supernatural division, solving crimes committed by otherworldly means.

British author Ben Aaronovitch writes the series, and illustrator Andrew Cartmel teams up with him for the graphic novels. The novels and the graphic novels have been massive in the U.K., with 2022's Amongst Our Weapons and the most recent The Masquerades of Spring debuting at Number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list.