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• Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Anansi Boys will be adapted for TV
• • David Barnett
     
   
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  •   theguardian.com,  Tuesday 4 February 2014 10.03 ES

• Two Neil Gaiman books are to hit the small screen at last – his 2001 novel American Gods and the sort-of follow-up Anansi Boys.

  Gaiman confirmed on his journal that American Gods – which up to last November was due to be adapted by the American TV cable company HBO – was now in the hands of FremantleMedia's North American arm, while Anansi Boys will be made by acclaimed UK production company Red.
• Gaiman says: "As to where you will be able to see it, who is going to be in it, who will be writing or show-running, none of these things have yet been settled. But it already looks like it's going to be a smoother run developing it than it had at HBO, so I am very pleased."
• He added of the failed HBO deal: "HBO had an option on American Gods for several years. It went through three different pilot scripts. HBO has a limited number of slots and, after a while, passed it to Cinemax, who are in the HBO family, who decided eventually they didn't want to do it, and the option expired, which unfortunately meant we couldn't work with Tom Hanks' production company Playtone any longer, as they are exclusive to HBO."

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• BBC Pop Up Launches in Colorado
• By Karen Fratti on September 11, 2014 12:11 PM
• Pop-up food trucks, fashion boutiques, flea markets. Now, there are pop-up newsrooms, too, thanks to BBC Pop Up. A truly mobile newsroom, BBC has sent a small crew of video journalists to travel around North America for six months to embed themselves in a place and dig around for good stories.
• Their next stop is Baton Rouge, La., but after that, they’re hoping for a “little serendipity,” says Danzico. Just yesterday morning, he struck up a conversation with their neighbor while grabbing the paper at the end of the driveway. The guy suggested the team hit Albuquerque along the way. “So, we might be headed to New Mexico,” Danzico says.
• You can follow them @BBCPopUp and see their work here.

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