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New supernatural series A Discovery of Witches is starting on Sky One tonight. The series will premiere on Friday, September 14 at 9pm. Starring The Crown’s Matthew Goode, the drama follows a historian and a newly discovered witch, whose life is changed when she discovers an ancient book and falls in love with a vampire professor in Oxford. The series is set to run for eight weeks.

How many episodes are in A Discovery of Witches? A Discovery of Witches consists of eight hour-long episodes in total. They will air every Friday night starting from September 14 - the exact time has yet to be announced by Sky. The series is based on the All Souls Trilogy of novels by author Deborah Harkness, the first of which was published in 2011. The cast is led by Teresa Palmer as new witch Diana Bishop and Goode as vampire Matthew Clairmont. WHO IS IN THE CAST OF A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES?

A Discovery of Witches starts this September

What is the plot of A Discovery of Witches? The synopsis for the show reads: “A Discovery of Witches is a contemporary love story set against the backdrop of Oxford academic life, but in a world where a handful of witches, vampires and daemons live and work unseen amongst humans, hiding in plain sight. “Teresa Palmer will star as brilliant academic and historian Diana Bishop, a reluctant witch denying her heritage. “The discovery of a manuscript in Oxford’s Bodleian Library throws her into the heart of a dangerous mystery – and into the path of enigmatic geneticist Matthew Clairmont (Matthew Goode), who we discover also has a dark family secret: he is a vampire. “As Diana and Matthew embark on a journey to understand the secrets of an ancient manuscript and as their relationship develops and their heritage comes in to play, events threaten to unravel the fragile peace that has long existed between witches, vampires, daemons and humans.” A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES RELEASE DATE, CAST, TRAILER, PLOT

Deborah Harkness

Speaking to press about the series at San Diego Comic Con 2018, Harkness said that she had initially thought that the adaptation would be a movie but quickly realised that the story wouldn’t fit in a 90-minute film. Harkness met with executive producer Jane Tranter to discuss turning her book into a series. “This is a woman who is a legend in the television industry,” she said. “She has done some phenomenal book adaptations and the more I talked to her about her vision for bringing the project to life through all kinds of great initiatives and through a collaborative spirit, I knew that this was the right place to being the story.” As a professor herself, Harkness said that the book and the series “fused her love of history and mystery and magic”. On creating her characters she joked: “I started wondering if there really are vampires and what they do for a living and how do they date.”

Teresa Palmer and Matthew Goode