John Lithgow confirmed in Dumbledore role, with Paapa Essiedu playing Severus Snape and Nick Frost as HagridFor many Harry Potter fans, no actors could ever live up to the original cast of the cherished film franchise. For others, a new TV adaptation is an opportunity for greater detail and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-14 17:21:18 UTC ]
A new series is stepping into the fraught territory of Northern Ireland in the 70s by telling the real-life story of a woman abducted by the IRA. Its creators talk about truth, reconciliation and trying to depict both sides of the conflict“To be honest, I’d always thought of the Troubles as a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-11-12 11:00:55 UTC ]
Alice Oseman’s tale of queer romance is a global success story built on fans who want to feel good about themselves in tough timesAfter boy met boy in a crowdfunded graphic novel set in a British grammar school in 2018, hearts began to flutter and tills started to ring around the world. This... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-08-03 17:41:27 UTC ]
Watching the new TV adaptation of Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel American Born Chinese on Disney+, I feel like one of the Chinese immortals in the show who emerges from his den in the basement of a dim sum restaurant: it is as if several lifetimes have passed since I first experienced this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-06-15 08:53:31 UTC ]
With her new book ‘Apples Never Fall’ and another TV adaptation with Nicole Kidman, Liane Moriarty doesn’t care how you categorize her books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-10 11:00:00 UTC ]
Exciting adaptation news: A24 and Rhombus Media have optioned the rights to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Nguyen’s Pulitzer-winning debut novel about a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who serves as a communist double agent after the fall of Saigon. The novel is being developed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-04-07 14:34:36 UTC ]
Actors Alison Oliver, Sasha Lane, Jemima Kirke and Joe Alwyn are to star in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel, Conversations with Friends (Faber.) Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-17 23:11:49 UTC ]
Keira Knightley is to star in an adaptation of Sarah Perry's novel The Essex Serpent for Apple TV+. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-24 14:09:10 UTC ]
Snoop Dogg is producing the TV adaptation for Joe Ide's IQ detective series, after TV rights were initially snapped up in a seven-way bidding war by Alcon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-03 14:06:32 UTC ]
Her fifth book, “Heaven, My Home,” is on the horizon along with her TV adaptation of Celeste Ng’s “Little Fires Everywhere.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-09-16 15:42:34 UTC ]
Helen Monks Takhar’s debut thriller about a millennial ‘snowflake’ intern pitted against an older editor, Precious You (HQ), is to be turned into a TV show. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-22 15:41:19 UTC ]
Tiger Aspect has signed TV rights to Caroline Hulse’s début The Adults (Orion), a novel about a divorced couple’s attempt to create the perfect Christmas getaway for their daughter and their new partners. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first episode of the My Brilliant Friend TV adaptation will broadcast in the UK on Sky Atlantic on 19th November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fierce bidding wars between publishers saw several big deals happen for politically charged novels at this year’s fair, as new books from Jeanette Winterson and Caitlin Moran were also revealed• What will you be reading next year? A roundup of London book fairFrom a distance, the only thing that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an event billed as “A Fortunate Stage Talk,” actor Neil Patrick Harris, of "Doogie Howser" and "How I Met Your Mother" fame, who currently stars as Count Olaf in the TV adaptation of "A Series of Unfortunate Events," will reunite with Chris Harris (no relation), who was the executive producer... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel rockets to number one on Amazon after Channel 4 begins airing series starring Elisabeth MossThe Handmaid’s Tale, the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood envisaging a hellish dystopia where the US is ruled by an ultra-far-right regime that treats women as chattels, has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Julia Roberts is starring in Annapurna Pictures' TV adaptation of Maria Semple's second novel Today Will be Different. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Take a sneak peek at Channel 4's TV adaptation of the classic picture book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury (Walker Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Netflix has commissioned a TV adaptation of Beth Reekles’ YA novel The Kissing Booth (Penguin Random House), according to Deadline. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Zadie Smith's just-published novel Swing Time (Hamish Hamilton) has secured a TV deal with Steve Coogan’s production company Baby Cow. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]