Devil’s Day Novel Being Adapted for TV

The Ink Factory has acquired the rights to Andrew Michael Hurley’s novel Devil’s Day for adaptation into a TV series.

Hurley’s follow-up to The Loney, Devil’s Day is a supernatural tale that follows John Pentecost and his newly pregnant wife Kat, who have returned to John’s family farm located in a tiny hamlet on the Lancashire moors to mourn the loss of his grandfather. Their arrival coincides with the ritual of Devil’s Day, a ceremony that holds a dark significance for the tight-knit community and belies centuries of secrets and superstitions.

Hurley commented: “I’m absolutely delighted to be working on the screen adaptation of Devil’s Day with The Ink Factory. From the first meeting, it was clear that their vision of the relationship between the valley, moorland and the characters matched my own.”

Emma Broughton, the head of development at The Ink Factory, added: “‘Andrew’s stunning novel offers extraordinary potential for adaptation: its beguiling, complex characters, compulsive narrative and extraordinary evocation of landscape match absolutely, in sensibility and ambition, our commitment to create brilliant, bold and thrilling drama.”