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Top Ten Books I Would Love to See as a Film or TV Show

10th September 2013 By Julianne 5 Comments

We don’t really say ‘Movie’ in the UK, so I changed the heading to ‘Film’. What? It made me uncomfortable.

Top Ten Tuesday was created and is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This is my twenty-seventh Top Ten Tuesday.

Top Ten Books I Would Love to See as a Movie or TV Show

1. Kiki Strike and the Shadow City, by Kirsten Miller – because how many films about awesome girl gangs are there? Not enough. I’d love to actually see the Shadow City.

2. Night School, by C. J. Daugherty – I would love to see the beautiful buildings of the Cimmeria Academy, and all the intrigue would make a great television show.

3. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman – just imagine all the detail that could go into a television adaptation! There is so much drama and angst and heartbreak – it would be devastatingly good TV. Massively controversial though, I’m sure…

4. Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation, by Martin Millar – you could just pretty much directly adapt this book into a surreal comedy film without making any changes to the plot or characters.

5. Under the Never Sky, by Veronica Vossi – When I read it, I thought that I would definitely watch a film adaptation!

6. The Diary of a Crush trilogy, by Sarra Manning – I’m not so sure that the third book would work (better as a TV film?) but all the ridiculous drama in the first two book would make fantastic telly. And the wardrobe designers would have so much fun dressing Edie, Shona, Poppy, Grace and the art boys…

7. Everything Beautiful, by Simmone Howell – I’ve never heard of any summer camp films with stories like Everything Beautiful, and I think it would be nice to see.

8. The Forestwife, by Teresa Tomlinson – I have longed for this trilogy to be a TV show ever since I finished reading the first book for the first time. Come on TV bosses, stop making all those standard adapations of the Robin Hood legend and bring this to the small screen instead!

9. Ten Things I Hate About Me, by Randa Abdel-Fattah – I was reluctant to pick any books with ‘internet stuff’ in them for this list, because we all know that it’s usually cringe o’clock when films or television shows feature anything to do with e-mail, but I think this one could work as a television show.

10. A Great and Terrible Beauty, and the rest of the Gemma Doyle trilogy, by Libba Bray – I think this could work as either a film or a TV show. There is so much atmosphere and I’d love to see all the locations!

Filed Under: Recommendation Lists Tagged With: adaptations, book chat, books, film, television, Top Ten Tuesday

TV Review: Murder Most Famous

3rd March 2008 By Julianne Leave a Comment

Isn’t it exciting whenever a television programme about books and/or writing appears? And then ultimately crushing when it gets cancelled, unless it’s Richard and Judy-related? Well, it is for me. Unfortunately, Murder Most Famous is only on for a week. Fortunately, it’s not very good anyway.

Murder Most Famous is Celebrity Big Brother/Fame Academy but with writing. It features six “celebrities”, two of whom have a bit of an unfair advantage really, being a journalist and a TV writer. The person who writes the worst piece each day has to leave the house, and the competition. The winner at the end gets their novel published. Each day they are set a research task and a writing task. Today’s research task was quite ludicrous. They went to the “scene of a murder” and to a morgue to see a pretend dead body. Because real wannabe crime writers get to do this stuff all the time! They had to write a short scene with a murder ending on a cliffhanger. The part where Minette Walters gives her feedback on each of the celebrities’ pieces is definitely they most interesting, and I think I’ll keep watching it for that, although I’ll probably fast foward to those parts – I have to record it for the rest of the week because of uni.

The worst part about this programme is that everything Minette Walters says besides the writing feedback she says, is a giant cliche, uttered without any sense of irony! Examples include:

“Will they have what it takes to survive the cutthroat world of crime writing?”
and when the losing celebrity was out:
“And then there were five.”

She also introduced each celebrity the same way:

“_name_ is a _positive adjective_ _job_ but, will they be about to _positive adjective_ _reference to writing_”

All in all, a pretty cringeworthy programme. Please, somebody produce something decent!

Murder Most Famous, BBC 2, 1:30pm daily for this week only.

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: crime writing, review, television, TV review, writing

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