Pratchett's Johnny and the Bomb coming to BBC TV

Cory Doctorow 10:06 pm Tue Sep 13, 2005

The BBC has announced that it is adapting Terry Pratchett's brilliant kids book Johnny and the Bomb (part of the Johnny Maxwell trilogy, which includes Only You can Save Mankind and Johnny and the Dead) for TV. The Johnny Maxwell books deal with the fantastic adventures of three pre-teen Brit kids who travel through time and dimensions having advetures that are pure Pratchett: funny and humanistic at the same time.

Frank Finlay and Keith Barron, Johnny and the Bomb comes from the makers of the award- winning CBBC dramas Feather Boy and Stig of the Dump…

When Johnny Maxwell and his friends come across mysterious old bag lady Mrs Tachyon in an alleyway, they soon realise there is more to her than a squeaky trolley and a bunch of black bags.

As Johnny gets to know her, he realises that she holds the key to different times – including the Blackbury Blitz of 1941.

Suddenly now isn't the safe place he once thought it was as he finds himself caught up more and more with then.

(via SciFi Wire)(

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