The BBC has commissioned two TV series based on books by crime writer Mark Billingham, the author revealed on “BBC Breakfast” this morning (21st April). Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The BBC has commissioned two TV series based on books by crime writer Mark Billingham, the author revealed on “BBC Breakfast” this morning (21st April). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Denzil Meyrick's DCI Daley series will be adapted for television, and will star "Game of Thrones" actor Rory McCann in the lead role. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-08 00:02:39 UTC ]
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Sarah Phelps will adapt Jackie Collins’ Lovers & Gamblers (S&S) as a major new television series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-05 21:38:50 UTC ]
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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 at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-04-07 14:34:36 UTC ]
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You may have noticed that here at Literary Hub, we’re pretty big fans of Octavia Butler—and especially of Kindred, arguably her most famous novel. So we were very excited by the recent news that that 42-year-old book is finally getting an adaptation: FX has recently ordered a pilot, which was... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-03-19 14:00:40 UTC ]
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Claire Danes has been cast as the lead role in the screen adaptation of The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (Serpent's Tail). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-10 23:44:25 UTC ]
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BBC One has commissioned a four-part adaptation of Kate Atkinson’s Costa Award-winning Life After Life from House Productions. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 01:13:20 UTC ]
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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s Memorial Drive—a harrowing memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her stepfather—has been optioned by Sony Pictures Television for development as a drama series. Recently heralded by the Washington Post... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-12-02 20:31:46 UTC ]
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BBC Audio will release the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sleeper and the Spindle as a digital download in January 2021, with an exclusive introduction from the author. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-30 14:33:55 UTC ]
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The writer was drowned at the age of 44, but he left three novels which have come to represent the decline of the British Empire. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2020-09-03 13:13:15 UTC ]
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Keira Knightley is to star in an adaptation of Sarah Perry's novel The Essex Serpent for Apple TV+. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-24 14:09:10 UTC ]
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Amanda Reynolds' debut novel Close to Me (Wildfire) is to become a six-episode series for Channel 4 and Viaplay, starring Christopher Eccleston and Connie Nielsen. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-10 23:40:20 UTC ]
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Castlefield has scooped the rights to adapt Cara Hunter's DI Fawley crime novels into a TV drama. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-08 08:58:00 UTC ]
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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 at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-03 14:06:32 UTC ]
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For about two months in 1970, ITV aired episodes of a bonkers science fiction comedy series based (oh so very loosely) on Miguel de Cervantes’ literary classic Don Quixote. The show, entitled The Adventures of Don Quick, follows an astronaut named Don Quick (Ian Hendry) and his sidekick, Sam... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-05-12 17:39:44 UTC ]
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Sally Rooney’s takeover of the world continues apace today with the announcement that the Irish literary phenom’s debut novel Conversations With Friends will be adapted into a twelve-part series for the BBC. Like the upcoming BBC/Hulu adaptation of Rooney’s 2019 juggernaut Normal People, which... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-02-25 18:39:10 UTC ]
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BBC One will adapt Kit de Waal's novel My Name is Leon (Simon & Schuster) into a film. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-24 20:59:15 UTC ]
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BBC Three is adapting Sally Rooney’s 2017 debut novel, Conversations with Friends, into twelve half an hour episodes directed by Oscar-nominated Irish film director Lenny Abrahamson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-24 15:37:51 UTC ]
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A teaser trailer for the upcoming BBC television adaptation of Malorie Blackman's Noughts + Crosses has been released. Jack Rowan appears in the trailer as Callum and Masali Baduza as Sephy, as they embark on a forbidden and passionate romance across race and class divides. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-14 00:25:57 UTC ]
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These days, it seems like every book that gets even the barest amount of hype gets snapped up by a production company in the first month of its publication, but that doesn’t necessarily mean those are the books whose adaptations get made. 2020 starts out with a whole host of movies adapted from... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-01-16 09:50:47 UTC ]
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