Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel Anansi Boys is getting the BBC miniseries treatment. I’ve never read it, but anything this man touches is gold. And sometimes a hot potato: His American Gods was in development at HBO, but now it’s been picked up instead by game- and reality-show magnate FremantleMedia — so far, without a network home or public timetable.
- AMC and Sony Pictures Television are bringing the Preacher comics to TV, with Seth Rogen co-writing and -producing a pilot for some reason.