ABC Family picks up the Mortal Instruments TV series
Like a cinematic example of the tree that falls in a forest when no one is around to hear it, 2013’s The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones wasn’t exactly the next Twilight. An adaptation of a popular series of YA books, the film was like a Greatest Hits collection of things that teenagers like, right down to the young person who finds out she’s connected to a secret magical world, a supernatural romance, and a mythology that seems impenetrable to people who haven’t read every book (ever, not just the ones in this series). Going back to the tree metaphor, though, it seems like The Mortal Instruments did make a sound, and ABC Family liked what it heard.