The Turner Broadcasting company, through its branch network TNT, has finally announced that negotiations are over and that it has bought the film rights for a TV series. Apparently, the contract is signed and sealed but both sides declined to talk about its duration and financial terms stipulated in it.

The date of release of the new television program has been scheduled for October 2008 and it will be done in close collaboration with Sony Pictures Television. It will have as a starting point the hit movie 'The Da Vinci Code', launched in May and starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou. The script was based on David Brown's best-seller, but was first adapted for the big screen by Akiva Goldsman.

'The Da Vinci Code', directed by Ron Howard, became almost instantly subject of many controversies (yet, that didn't stop it from cashing $209.9 million only in North America during its first weekend) because of allegations that the Church hid the fact that Jesus married former prostitute Marie Magdalene and the existence of their descendants.