{"id":506842,"date":"2026-06-23T08:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/506842\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:51:09","slug":"the-young-magicians-nick-mohammed-books-becoming-animated-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/506842\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Young Magicians’: Nick Mohammed Books Becoming Animated Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Ted Lasso<\/a> star Nick Mohammed<\/a> is turning his The Young Magicians<\/a> books into an animated series.<\/p>\n

\n\tMohammed is teaming with Blink Industries<\/a> and BBC Studios<\/a> Kids & Family on the adaptation, which follows the lives of four talented young magicians \u2013 Zack, Sophie, Jonny and Alex \u2013 as they uncover secret conspiracies and hidden dangers within London\u2019s most exclusive club: The Magic Circle. Mohammed wrote two books in the series, The Thieves Almanac and The 24-Hour Telepathy Plot, published in 2017 and 2020 respectively. They are based on his first love, magic, an obsession he has had since he was young. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe comedy adventure show is forged for the over-eight age group and Mohammed is showrunning and exec-producing. He gained worldwide recognition for his Emmy-nominated role as Nate in Apple TV\u2019s Ted Lasso, while he has also appeared in Slow Horses and co-created Intelligence. He recently got to the final of the BBC\u2019s Celebrity Traitors, the UK\u2019s most-watched show of 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe adaptation comes from Blink\u2019s first-look deal with BBC Studios Kids & Family, which last year unveiled martial arts show Children Vs Battle SuperStars. Blink makes the likes of Dead End: Paranormal Park and Love, Death & Robots. BBC Studios also has a development, co-production and distribution\u00a0deal in place with Mohammed, struck three years back<\/a>, but this is distinct from the Young Magicians project.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s been an absolute dream come true getting to dive back into the world of The Young Magicians, even more so to develop this as an animated series with Blink Industries and BBC Studios,\u201d said Mohammed. \u201cMagic was, and kind of still is, my first true love, and so to share that passion with a wider audience, given magic\u2019s rich and bountiful history, its oddness and curiosities, has always been a hope of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBlink CEO James Stevenson Bretton said he \u201cfell in love with the charming and exciting world that Nick built in his books and it\u2019s no surprise that Nick has been able to translate that magic into such an exciting show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe news comes a week after Studiocanal and Superprod revealed they are adapting <\/a>UK TV personality Dermot O\u2019Leary\u2019s book series Toto the Ninja Cat into an animated series. <\/p>\n

\n\tMohammed\u2019s news was revealed at the Annecy<\/a> International Animation Film Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed is turning his The Young Magicians books into an animated series. Mohammed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[208692,229561,28176,232944,146,85,46,68039,118150,232945],"class_list":["post-506842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-annecy","tag-annecy-international-animation-film-festival","tag-bbc-studios","tag-blink-industries","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nick-mohammed","tag-ted-lasso","tag-the-young-magicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}