The BBC's His Dark Materials series just got a second season

The BBC's adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy hasn't aired yet, but the network has already renewed the series for a second season, reports Deadline. The series will adapt Pullman's The Golden Compass and, presumably, its follow-ups The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. The epic series is set in an alternate world similar to ours except human souls are manifested externally as an animal that shape-shifts until puberty when it settles into a final form. Its protagonist is...