BBC to adapt J.K. Rowling novel
The BBC will adapt J.K. Rowling's adult fiction novel, The Casual Vacancy, into a television series.
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The BBC will adapt J.K. Rowling’s adult fiction novel, The Casual Vacancy, into a television series.
The best-selling novel is set in Pagford, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils… Pagford is not what it first seems.
J.K. Rowling says: “I’m thrilled that the BBC has commissioned The Casual Vacancy. I always felt that, if it were to be adapted, this novel was best suited to television and I think the BBC is the perfect home.”
Rowling will collaborate closely with the project, with the number and length of the episodes to be decided once the creative adaptation process has formally begun.
The series will be produced through an independent production company operated by Neil Blair, on behalf of The Blair Partnership, and Rick Senat.
It is expected to air in the UK in 2014.
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Well No doubt they will also get J.K involved in how to go about creating it so that the viewers will get the authenticity.
It will need to be better than the turgid, boring book.