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He recently signed a deal with Netflix to turn his novels into a television series. Simon lives with his wife and two children in North Wales. The “DI Ruth Hunter” series of novels tell the story of Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter, a veteran police officer from London. She has had enough of the mayhem and murder in the South London streets.
Jul 15, 2022 · This follows a 2013 attempt to adapt the series by Feel Films, which fell through, and a 2019 project helmed by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Stolen Picture production company that also failed to ...
- Ripley
- 3 Body Problem
- One Day
- All The Light We Cannot See
- One Piece
- The Haunting of Hill House
- The Queen's Gambit
- The Witcher
- Orange Is The New Black
- The Lincoln Lawyer
Shot in moody black-and-white, Steven Zaillian’s psychological thriller Ripley is a stylish take on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 crime classic The Talented Mr. Ripley. The 2024 limited series stars Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley, a petty grifter in early ’60s New York who stumbles into a plum job when he’s hired to track down a wealthy businessman’s waywa...
Created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (Game of Thrones) and Alexander Woo (True Blood), and based on the best-selling novels by Cixin Liu, this epic drama has an unstoppable pop-culture pedigree. Spanning decades and continents, the eight-episode 3 Body Problem imagines what happens when a young scientist makes a bold decision in 1960s China that...
Looking for your next will they, won’t they romance? One Dayis the slow burn that will tug at your heartstrings. Based on David Nicholls’ bestselling novel, the 14-episode limited series explores how impulsive decisions can send our lives off track, before fate intervenes to course-correct. Dexter (Leo Woodall) and Emma (Ambika Mod)’s love story be...
Why stop at a Pulitzer? In 2023, Anthony Doerr’s stirring 2014 novel scored a mini-series adaptation as well. Developed by Steven Knight and directed by Shawn Levy, the WWII drama All the Light We Cannot See stars newcomer Aria Mia Lobertias Marie-Laure, a blind French teenage girl who flees Paris with her father (Mark Ruffalo) upon the invasion of...
A popular manga gets the live-action treatment with ONE PIECE, developed by Matt Owens and Steven Maeda from Eiichiro Oda’s series of the same name. The lively adventure talefollows a group of friends, led by pirate Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy), who seek a storied treasure. Relying on their wits, their unique skills, and each other, the lovable cr...
Get spooked with these creepy tales from Mike Flanagan, who adapted Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House for the show and Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw for its follow-up, The Haunting of Bly Manor. Though each series tells a completely independent story, the two are linked by eerie vibes — and, of course, the premise of a haunting. Fla...
Sales of chess sets skyrocketed (really!) following the release of this mini-series written and directed by Scott Frank, based on Walter Tevis’ novel, about a chess prodigy in the 1960s. Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Beth Harmon, a young woman who learns the game from the janitor at her orphanage. She competes her way to the highest level of the chess w...
You may think of Henry Cavill as Superman, but the DCEU isn’t the actor’s only foray into the world of the superpowered. Cavill stars in The Witcher, adapted from the novel series by Andrzej Sapkowski, as the monster-hunter Geralt of Rivia. (He’ll pass the torch, and the sword, when Liam Hemsworth takes over the role in Season 4.) The fantasy serie...
One of the original Netflix originals, Orange Is the New Black premiered in 2013, ran for seven seasons, and collected dozens of accolades. Based on Piper Kerman’s memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison (and fictionalized beyond Kerman’s own experience), the dramedy chronicles the lives of the inmates in a women’s prison. The e...
Super-producer David E. Kelley logged a busy spring of 2022, when Anatomy of a Scandal and The Lincoln Lawyer were released within a month of each other. The latter show, adapted from Michael Connelly’s books about fictional defense lawyer Mickey Haller (Season 1 was based on The Brass Verdict, the second novel to feature the character), stars Manu...
May 1, 2019 · Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are looking to turn author Ben Aaronovitch's fantasy book series Rivers of London into a TV show. ... Find out if equity release could be right for you. Request the free ...
- The Snowdonia Killings. Newly arrived in Wales, DI Ruth Hunter is hoping for a quieter life. Unfortunately, she's barely settled in before a woman has been brutally murdered, left with strange symbols carved into her skin.
- The Harlech Beach Killings. Finding Wales to be less sedate than she originally hoped, DI Ruth Hunter is struggling with stress.
- The Dee Valley Killings. When a new missing persons case comes to her attention, DI Ruth Hunter quickly senses there's more to the story.
- The Devil's Cliff Killings. Though she's resolved to put grief behind her, DI Ruth Hunter's recovery is compromised by the case of a missing 16-year-old girl named Rosie.
Sep 21, 2022 · The show is based on author Harlan Coben's best-selling novel of the same name. Coben's daughter wrote the fifth episode of the show! WATCH THE SHOW. Netflix has some of the best adaptations from ...
Oct 1, 2019 · Simon Pegg and Nick Frost will help adapt fantasy novel Rivers Of London into a television series. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company, Stolen Picture, is set to adapt Ben Aaronovitch ...
