Not wanting to make it seem like sleeping rough was either cool or magical, Gaiman instead re-shaped the idea as a jaunt through a timeless underworld that lurks beneath London’s streets. The project sprung from the mind of comedian Lenny Henry, who initially tapped Gaiman to write an urban fantasy series set among London’s homeless community.
A TV series that comes from a televisual past that now seems to our 21st century eyes like a foreign country, so differently did they do things then. For nigh-on 17 years, the story of Richard Mayhew, a city-boy white-collar worker, who finds himself trapped in London Below in the company of young noblewoman Lady Door and the mysteriously dashing Marquis De Carabas, has been told and retold – but first, it was a TV series.
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