Cirque Du Freak Could Have Competed With Harry Potter -- that was the headline for an entry about Cirque Du Freak on an article that appeared on CBR today, entitled 10 Box Office Flops That Could Have Made Great TV Shows.

Hmm!!! While I'd love to think this was a universe where a Darren Shan adaptation could have gone toe-to-toe with the Harry Potter franchise, I suspect my books were always a bit too dark and... well... FREAKY to go down quite that well with the massive mainstream audience that HP reached!!! But, yeah, I do think the movie could have reached a much larger audience, as the books surprisingly did, given that everyone in the publishing industry in the UK wouldn't touch them with a barge pole in 1997 when I wrote the first draft of CDF! Hopefully we'll fare better when/if the series ever gets a reboot...

You can read the full article here: https://www.cbr.com/movies-box-office-flops-great-tv-shows/