Fans of “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and “Nancy Drew,” take note: another supernatural teen story is on the way. Lime Pictures is developing an adaptation of “Hollow Pike” for TV, Deadline reports.
Based on Juno Dawson’s 2012 YA supernatural thriller of the same name, the series will follow Lis London. The book sees Lis suffering from a recurring nightmare: “over and over, she dreams that someone is trying to kill her. Lis thinks she’s being paranoid — after all, who would want to murder her? She doesn’t believe in the local legends of witchcraft. She doesn’t believe that anything bad will really happen to her. But you never know do, do you? Not until you’re alone in the woods, after dark — and a twig snaps,” the source hints.
Georgia Lester (“Skins,” “Turn Up Charlie”) is attached as head writer for the series. Dawson, whose other books include “Clean” and “This Book Is Gay,” is expected to write an episode.
“It’s ten years since I conceived the sinister town of Hollow Pike and I’m delighted that it’s being revived for television,” said Dawson. “I always had such exciting plans for the characters and the TV show gives us an opportunity to do just that.”
Louise Sutton, Head of Drama and YA for Lime Pictures, described the book as a “tense teen thriller set against the backdrop of the breathtaking Lancashire countryside,” and emphasized that “Hollow Pike” is “a very modern take on witches and demonization of young women.”
“The publishing world tends to focus more on the ‘young,’ less on the ‘adult,'” Dawson has said. “But I spend lots of time with teenagers and they’re truly the broadband generation. They’ve been online all their lives and seen things that would make milk curdle: beheadings, graphic violence, hardcore porn. Shielding them is never going to work,” she emphasized. The author added, “We never teach girls that sex should be enjoyable for them. That’s one thing porn absolutely doesn’t do. Pornography is not sex education.”