Confession time: I’d never read any John LeCarré until after I’d seen the 2011 film of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It’s a brilliant movie, and one that sent me scuttling to read the Karla trilogy and then watch the two excellent Alec Guinness adaptations. After devouring the first two episodes of Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, I can think of no higher compliment than to say that I’m bulk-buying the book series it was adapted from in short order.Slow Horses is an adaptation of Mick Herron’s series of Slough House novels, featuring a group of British spies trapped in administrative purgatory. MI5 agents who have committed high-profile mistakes but know far too much to be fired are dumped in the dingy Slough House. There, they are given harmless busywork too demeaning for real spies to undertake, all the while being tormented and demeaned by division chief Jackson Lamb, played by Gary Oldman.It’s this world that former superstar spy River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) is thrust into after his own notorious error while out in the field. There, he’s given jobs like searching a dodgy journalist’s trash can and acting as a courier between offices. It’s hardly a spoiler to suggest that Cartwright’s arrival triggers something of a major case for the rejects to handle, which has mostly kicked off by the time the second episode finishes.What Slow Horses has to offer, beyond the enjoyment of a modern-day thriller done right, is a sense of pulpy fun. A sequence in the second episode I can’t spoil... Continue reading at 'Engadget'
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Live Talk Los Angeles has launched on Spectrum Networks, turning an author event series into a weekly primetime TV show for 1.8 million subscribers in Southern California. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon is taking a bigger piece of ad sales on Fire TV, its connected TV devices, by requiring TV networks and digital publishers to hand over 30 percent of their commercial space for it to sell, according to new terms from the e-commerce giant.Until last month, Amazon let the publishers sell... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three-quarters of European publishers surveyed by Digiday plan to increase revenues from video advertisements and branded content in 2019. The post Digiday Research: European publishers expect to make more money from branded content in 2019 appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling Apple Books in fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, biography and memoir, and more for the week ended November 11, 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook's plans to topple TV advertising have come to a halt as it shut down key programs that delivered commercials to TV networks and publishers online.Ads are no longer being served to connected TV devices like smart TVs, Apple TV and Roku, the company confirmed. The reason, according to... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Roxane Gay is appearing in conversation with Liv Little, the founder of gal-dem, for her very first visit to the UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel, 'Past Tense,' hit #1 on the Apple Books store last week, while pre-orders of former first lady Michelle Obama's memoir, 'Becoming,' launched that book, out today, into the #5 spot. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling Apple Books in fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, health, mind & body, and more for the week ended November 4, 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The first episode of the My Brilliant Friend TV adaptation will broadcast in the UK on Sky Atlantic on 19th November. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Michael Connelly's 'Dark Sacred Night' is #1 in the Apple Books store, unseating John Grisham's 'The Reckoning.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jess Brittain’s university thriller returns to TV next week – with toxic masculinity and ‘snowflakes’ forming part of the dramaWe’re not in Beverly Hills any more, Toto: teen drama in 2018 is a darker, more politically-charged genre than ever. Take Riverdale, whose creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling Apple Books in biographies and memoirs, fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, and more for the week ended 28, 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A major investment stake from Chinese media firm Vanguard Visionary Associates will be used to fund publishing projects at Dark Horse in addition to creating a development fund for film projects based on Dark Horse comics properties Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The inaugural Bath and Bristol Small Publishers’ Gathering will take place this weekend featuring 28 presses, as the independents "break free of London’s gravitational pull". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Grisham’s latest legal suspense novel debuted at #1 on the Apple Books store, knocking ‘Every Breath’ by Nicholas Sparks to #2 from last week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unstoppable Film & Television has acquired the production rights to Juno Dawson’s upcoming YA novel Meat Market (Quercus Children’s Books), about a 16-year-old girl who is catapulted from her South London council estate to the international world of fashion. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a letter to our editor, Robert Sindelar, the president of the American Booksellers Association, acknowledges that bookseller Jonathan Platt has a valid point that store margins could be better, but argues that improvements are being made. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The bestselling Apple Books in biographies and memoirs, fiction and literature, mysteries and thrillers, and more for the week ended October 14, 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Zaffre) has swiped the UK Official Top 50 number one spot from Zoe Sugg’s Cordially Invited (Hodder & Stoughton), selling 25,567 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Deciding to open foreign rights sales as 'something we needed to do for our authors,' the Inuit-owned publishing house Inhabit Media has staged its arrival at Frankfurter Buchmesse, on the ramp up to Canada's stint as Guest of Honor in 2020. The post Arctic Circle Publishing: Inhabit Media Makes... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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