{"id":27365,"date":"2022-12-18T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1757353"},"modified":"2022-12-18T23:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T22:03:04","slug":"his-dark-materials-potential-spin-offs-and-sequels-following-season-3","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/his-dark-materials-potential-spin-offs-and-sequels-following-season-3\/","title":{"rendered":"His Dark Materials: Potential spin-offs and sequels following season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ryan Coogan\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Sunday, 18 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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As His Dark Materials<\/a> season 3 comes to a close, fans may be wondering what\u2019s next for Lyra, Pan, and the other denizens of Oxford.<\/p>\n

Season 3 ended with Lyra and Will<\/a> parting ways, with a series of title cards explaining that the two would grow up separately and likely never see one another again.<\/p>\n

However, the final title card introduced a ray of hope to fans of His Dark Materials, by teasing a continuation of Lyra\u2019s adventures:<\/p>\n

\u201cLyra went on to be educated at St Sophia\u2019s College in Oxford, where she was taught how to once again read the alethiometer\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich would come in useful one day, when Lyra and Pan would go on to have a further great adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although His Dark Materials was originally planned as a trilogy \u2013 consisting of Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass \u2013 series author Philip Pullman has since written a number of spin offs and sequels, including an entirely new trilogy of books.<\/p>\n

If the BBC decides that it ever wants to return to the world of His Dark Materials, they\u2019ll have plenty to draw from. Here are just a few things they could adapt in the future.<\/p>\n

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In 2003, Philip Pullman released a novella<\/a> that took place two years after the events of His Dark Materials and starred a now-15-year-old Lyra.<\/p>\n

In the novella, Lyra encounters a daemon in the shape of a bird, which claims that its human (a witch) has an illness that causes daemons to be severed from their hosts. Lyra tries to help the daemon, but soon realises that she is being tricked, and that the witch wishes the kill her as revenge for the death of her lover, who perished in the conflict which took place towards the end of the His Dark Materials trilogy between Lord Asriel\u2019s forces and the forces of heaven.<\/p>\n

In contrast to the more serious tone of the original trilogy, the story has more of a fairy tale quality, and at only 64 pages is very much a self-contained entity.<\/p>\n

Due to the nature of the plot, and the fact that the book is quite short in comparison to some of the other books in the series, it\u2019s unlikely this could be stretched to a full season. However, it could make a nice one-off or Christmas special if the BBC ever wants to test the waters for a longer follow-up.<\/p>\n

If they wanted to pad the content a little bit, they could even combine it with the next book in this list\u2026<\/p>