The Abominable Snow Baby
The UK’s Channel 4 has commissioned a one-off animated adaptation of a Terry Pratchett story to air at Christmas this year.
The Abominable Snow Baby was originally published in late fantasy author Pratchett’s Christmas story collection Father Christmas’ Fake Beard. It is being adapted for TV by UK prodco Eagle Eye Drama, which was launched by Channel 4-owned Walter Presents in 2019.
Narritivia, the indie prodco Pratchett founded in 2012 before his death in 2015, is also producing the half-hour show. In the story, a quaint English town is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a 14-foot ‘abominable snow baby,’ but things change thanks to a local woman and her grandson.
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image captionJo McGrath said it was rare to get Herdwick triplets
A Lake District farm has welcomed the birth of a rare set of triplet lambs for only the third time in 18 years.
The Herdwick lambs have been born at Yew Tree farm near Coniston, which was once owned by author Beatrix Potter.
Farmer Jo McGrath said it was unusual for Herdwicks, which are still practically wild genetically , to have more than one lamb at a time.
But last year s good weather has meant a bumper crop of twins this spring, she said.
Multiple births would leave a wild sheep vulnerable and at risk from predators, she said, as well as meaning a ewe has more offspring to feed.