"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling is teaming up with HBO and BBC to bring her small-town novel "The Casual Vacancy" to the small screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rowling has teamed up with the two networks to adapt the novel for a three-hour miniseries.
"The Casual Vacancy" is the author's first novel since the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows" The book, which sold more than six million copies, is completely different than the wizarding world of Harry Potter and his friends.
The novel focuses on the small English village of Pagford, a quaint and quiet place on the surface that turns upside down when Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties.
"What lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils... Pagford is not what it seems," Rowling writes on her website.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, production for the miniseries will begin this summer in southwest England. So far a cast has not been announced. Rowling will executive produce the project through her Bronte Film and Television production company that she runs with Neil Bair, her producing partner and literary agent.
In March 2012, BBC announced that it had plans to bring the best-selling novel to television.
"I'm thrilled that the BBC has commissioned 'The Casual Vacancy.' I always felt that, if it were to be adapted, this novel was best suited to television and I think the BBC is the perfect home," Rowling previously said in an interview with BBC.
"It is thrilling to be bringing the work of J.K. Rowling to BBC One audiences. J.K. Rowling's story-telling is of course peerless in its popularity, and I am looking forward to collaborating with her," Danny Cohen, Controller of BBC One said.
