Overview
- BBC Studios Kids & Family announced on June 16 that it has partnered with UK producer Wheel In Motion and Japan’s Kadokawa to develop the first live‑action television treatment of Eiko Kadono’s Kiki’s Delivery Service.
- The project is described as a single season of ten half‑hour episodes that will draw primarily from the first book in Kadono’s six‑book series.
- Writer Irena Brignull, whose credits include The Boxtrolls and The Little Prince, is attached to adapt the novel for the series.
- Kadono and Kadokawa have publicly endorsed the collaboration, but no casting choices, production schedule, or release date have been announced and the series remains in development.
- The move revisits a property best known for Hayao Miyazaki’s 1989 Studio Ghibli film and a less‑well‑received 2014 live‑action feature, and the producers say adapting the novel for television could expand the story’s episodic scope and introduce Kiki to a new global audience.