The Chronicles of Narnia Program", and a number of BAFTA awards including Best Children's Programme (Entertainment / Drama) in 1988, 1989 and 1990. The serials were later edited into three feature-length films (the second of which combined "Prince Caspian" and "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" into one) and released on VHS and DVD. On 3 October 2018, the C.S. Lewis Company announced that Netflix had acquired the rights to new film and series adaptations of the Narnia books. According to "Fortune", this was the first time that rights to the entire "Narnia" catalogue had been held by a single company. Entertainment One, which
The Chronicles of Narnia a likely influence. The manuscript for "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" was complete by the end of March 1949. The name "Narnia" is based on Narni, Italy, written in Latin as "Narnia". Green wrote: "The Chronicles of Narnia's" seven books have been in continuous publication since 1956, selling over 100 million copies in 47 languages and with editions in Braille. The first five books were originally published in the United Kingdom by Geoffrey Bles. The first edition of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" was released in London on 16 October 1950. Although three more books, "Prince