Despite having more recently graced our screens in the likes of The Celebrity Traitors and Slow Horses, Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed is set to take on a very different kind of project.
It’s now been announced that Mohammed’s children’s book series, The Young Magicians, is set to get the animated TV series treatment with the actor serving as showrunner and executive producer.
Described as a “comedy adventure show”, The Young Magicians will follow four talented young magicians – Zack, Sophie, Jonny and Alex – “as they uncover secret conspiracies and hidden dangers within London’s most exclusive club: The Magic Circle,” according to Deadline.
For a lot of his life, Mohammed worked as a close-up magician and so, the books are a nod to his passion, with the animated series set to also be a nod to that.
Mohammed has penned two children’s books in the series, The Young Magicians and the 24-hour Telepathy Plot which was released in 2018, and then The Young Magicians and The Thieves’ Almanac, which was released in 2017.
The book synopsis to Mohammed’s first Young Magicians adventure, The Young Magicians and The Thieves’ Almanac, reads: “On a London street, four unlikely friends stand before the astonishingly ordinary-looking blue door of the Magic Circle . . .
“Alex doesn’t say much, and once jumped when handed a satsuma, but, wow, is he amazing with a deck of cards. Zack is undoubtedly one of the best pickpockets in the country (but always puts things back).
“Sophie once convinced her Brown Owl that all the other Brownies were jellyfish thanks to her nifty hypnosis skills – and then never returned. Jonny – who is quite possibly the tallest boy in the universe – mixes science and magic with spectacular consequences (mostly explosions).”
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It continues: “Join these young magicians as they step inside the world-famous conjuring club in an adventure that may or may not involve the search for a secret book, a set of impossible crimes and . . . oh, yes – a flock of very confused pigeons.”
The new project will see Mohammed team up with Blink Industries and BBC Studios Kids & Family. On the announcement of the series, Mohammed said in a statement: “It’s 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.
“Magic was, and kind of still is, my first true love, and so to share that passion with a wider audience, given magic’s rich and bountiful history, its oddness and curiosities, has always been a hope of mine.”
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