Mark Gatiss will co-write and star in Bookish, a crime drama for Alibi, and here are the details of the new show.
It’s been several years since the last project by The League Of Gentlemen, and there is as of yet so sign of any further adventures for Sherlock. However, in the intervening years, Mark Gatiss has kept himself busy with a number of projects, from his annual Mr James Ghost Story For Christmas films, collaborating with Steven Moffat again on Dracula and directing Moffat’s debut play The Unfriend.
His next television project will be Bookish, a crime drama for Alibi he wrote with Matthew Sweet.
The synopsis reads as follows:
London, 1946 is the dynamic, dangerous and chaotic setting for this stylish new detective drama, with the eccentric Gabriel Book (Gatiss) at the very heart of the story: a self-appointed consultant detective to the local police. The thousands...
It’s been several years since the last project by The League Of Gentlemen, and there is as of yet so sign of any further adventures for Sherlock. However, in the intervening years, Mark Gatiss has kept himself busy with a number of projects, from his annual Mr James Ghost Story For Christmas films, collaborating with Steven Moffat again on Dracula and directing Moffat’s debut play The Unfriend.
His next television project will be Bookish, a crime drama for Alibi he wrote with Matthew Sweet.
The synopsis reads as follows:
London, 1946 is the dynamic, dangerous and chaotic setting for this stylish new detective drama, with the eccentric Gabriel Book (Gatiss) at the very heart of the story: a self-appointed consultant detective to the local police. The thousands...
- 4/11/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Exclusive: Sherlock star Mark Gatiss is writing and starring in a British TV drama about a bookshop owner who helps police solve crimes.
Bookish will be a six-part series for UKTV crime drama network Alibi set in post-war London in 1946. Gatiss, the co-creator of BBC shows such as Sherlock and The League of Gentlemen and Netflix/BBC’s Dracula and actor in films including Operation Mincemeat and Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning, is the creator.
The series will follow Gabriel Book (Gatiss), an “erudite and unconventional” sleuth who cracks mysterious cases from his antiquated bookshop, using the thousands of books that line his shelves to provide him with the knowledge that he needs. Around him are a gathering of “loveable, damaged misfits who he informally protects, cajoles and mentors.”
Starring alongside Gatiss is Polly Walker (Bridgerton, Line of Duty), who plays Book’s colourful wife Trottie. She is charismatic and adventurous,...
Bookish will be a six-part series for UKTV crime drama network Alibi set in post-war London in 1946. Gatiss, the co-creator of BBC shows such as Sherlock and The League of Gentlemen and Netflix/BBC’s Dracula and actor in films including Operation Mincemeat and Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning, is the creator.
The series will follow Gabriel Book (Gatiss), an “erudite and unconventional” sleuth who cracks mysterious cases from his antiquated bookshop, using the thousands of books that line his shelves to provide him with the knowledge that he needs. Around him are a gathering of “loveable, damaged misfits who he informally protects, cajoles and mentors.”
Starring alongside Gatiss is Polly Walker (Bridgerton, Line of Duty), who plays Book’s colourful wife Trottie. She is charismatic and adventurous,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Jesse Whittock and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The success of “Fleabag” loosed a glut of shows about young women tottering – heels broken, mascara smeared – in the vague direction of adult responsibility. Few have been as purely enjoyable as “Everything I Know About Love,” Dolly Alderton’s adaptation of her own memoir, which debuts on Peacock this week after winning plaudits on the BBC in midsummer.
With its photogenic cast, pyjama-party vibe and commitment to steering its characters towards better things, this Working Title-produced, London-set miniseries should provide superior comfort TV for anyone constitutionally unable to face Nathan Fielder’s postmodern provocations or the carnage of a “Game of Thrones” prequel. It’ll be only more comforting the more years you have on the show’s fresh-faced principals.
Alderton’s onscreen surrogate is Maggie Marshall (Emma Appleton), encountered just before the 2012 Olympics as a flighty 24-year-old blogger with a thrusting new beau in porkpie hat-sporting, multiple red flag-raising...
With its photogenic cast, pyjama-party vibe and commitment to steering its characters towards better things, this Working Title-produced, London-set miniseries should provide superior comfort TV for anyone constitutionally unable to face Nathan Fielder’s postmodern provocations or the carnage of a “Game of Thrones” prequel. It’ll be only more comforting the more years you have on the show’s fresh-faced principals.
Alderton’s onscreen surrogate is Maggie Marshall (Emma Appleton), encountered just before the 2012 Olympics as a flighty 24-year-old blogger with a thrusting new beau in porkpie hat-sporting, multiple red flag-raising...
- 8/30/2022
- by Mike McCahill
- Variety Film + TV
Everything I Know About Love is coming to Peacock this month and the streaming service has released a trailer teasing the relationship drama. Starring Emma Appleton, Bel Powley, Marli Siu, Aliyah Odoffin, Connor Finch, Jordan Peters, and Ryan Bown, the show is based on the novel by Dolly Alderton. The story follows four female friends who experience love and heartbreak in their 20s.
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- 8/2/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
In Peacock’s upcoming dramedy, Everything I Know About Love, the central love story is that between childhood best friends — bur will one of them getting into a relationship change everything? The streaming service has dropped the official trailer and key art for Everything I Know About Love, starring Emma Appleton, Bel Powley, Marli Siu, Aliyah Odoffin, Connor Finch, Jordan Peters, and Ryan Bown, and it’s all about how messy life can get. As the tagline on the key art (below) reads, they’re “Flourishing. Failing. Figuring it out.” Peacock For childhood best friends Maggie and Birdy and their mates from university, Amara and Nell, there are bad dates, heartaches, and humiliations coming as the four move into a London house-share in 2012. While the trailer begins with the fun of the girls going out their first Friday night in the house, the drama comes when Birdy gets a boyfriend.
- 8/1/2022
- TV Insider
The BBC has set a release date for “Everything I Know About Love,” the adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s book of the same name.
The full season will debut on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on June 7.
The seven episode season, which was written and created by Alderton, was directed by China Moo-Young (“Pennyworth”). It stars Emma Appleton (“Pistol”) as Maggie, Bel Powley (“The Morning Show”) as Birdy, Marli Siu (“Alex Rider”) as Nell and Aliyah Odoffin as Amara.
Rounding out the cast are Connor Finch (“Professor T”) as Street, Jordan Peters (“Gangs of London”) as Neil and Ryan Bown (“A Beautiful Request”) as Nathan.
The romantic comedy drama was produced by Working Title Television which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.
“Everything I Know About Love” is set in 2012 in London, where a house-share in North London serves as the locale for “an...
The full season will debut on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on June 7.
The seven episode season, which was written and created by Alderton, was directed by China Moo-Young (“Pennyworth”). It stars Emma Appleton (“Pistol”) as Maggie, Bel Powley (“The Morning Show”) as Birdy, Marli Siu (“Alex Rider”) as Nell and Aliyah Odoffin as Amara.
Rounding out the cast are Connor Finch (“Professor T”) as Street, Jordan Peters (“Gangs of London”) as Neil and Ryan Bown (“A Beautiful Request”) as Nathan.
The romantic comedy drama was produced by Working Title Television which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.
“Everything I Know About Love” is set in 2012 in London, where a house-share in North London serves as the locale for “an...
- 5/20/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The BBC has revealed the first images from the keenly anticipated series adaptation of “Everything I Know About Love,” based on journalist, author and podcaster Dolly Alderton’s internationally bestselling memoir of the same name.
Images have been revealed of Emma Appleton (Maggie), Bel Powley (Birdy), Marli Siu (Nell), Aliyah Odoffin (Amara) and Connor Finch (Street).
“Everything I Know About Love” won a 2018 National Book Award for autobiography and was shortlisted for the 2019 Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year in the British Book Awards.
The romantic comedy drama about female friendship provides an unflinching account of surviving your 20s.
The seven-part series for BBC One will be directed by China Moo-Young and produced by Working Title Television, which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.
Set in a 2012 London house-share, with flashbacks to suburban adolescence in the early 2000s, the series is a deep dive into bad dates,...
Images have been revealed of Emma Appleton (Maggie), Bel Powley (Birdy), Marli Siu (Nell), Aliyah Odoffin (Amara) and Connor Finch (Street).
“Everything I Know About Love” won a 2018 National Book Award for autobiography and was shortlisted for the 2019 Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year in the British Book Awards.
The romantic comedy drama about female friendship provides an unflinching account of surviving your 20s.
The seven-part series for BBC One will be directed by China Moo-Young and produced by Working Title Television, which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.
Set in a 2012 London house-share, with flashbacks to suburban adolescence in the early 2000s, the series is a deep dive into bad dates,...
- 3/15/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The TV adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s bestselling novel about surviving your 20s, Everything I Know About Love, has found its cast.
Bel Powley (The Morning Show, Informer, Diary of a Teenage Girl) and Emma Appleton (Pistol, The Witcher, Traitors) will play Birdy (Powley) and Maggie (Appleton), two childhood best friends whose love story is central to the seven-part series, being made for BBC One by NBCUniversal International Studios-owned Working Title Television.
Joining the two are Marli Siu (Alex Rider) playing Nell, Jordan Peters (Pirates, Gangs of London) playing Neil and making their on-screen TV debuts are Aliyah Odoffin playing Amara, Connor Finch playing Street; and Ryan Bown ...
Bel Powley (The Morning Show, Informer, Diary of a Teenage Girl) and Emma Appleton (Pistol, The Witcher, Traitors) will play Birdy (Powley) and Maggie (Appleton), two childhood best friends whose love story is central to the seven-part series, being made for BBC One by NBCUniversal International Studios-owned Working Title Television.
Joining the two are Marli Siu (Alex Rider) playing Nell, Jordan Peters (Pirates, Gangs of London) playing Neil and making their on-screen TV debuts are Aliyah Odoffin playing Amara, Connor Finch playing Street; and Ryan Bown ...
- 8/24/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The TV adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s bestselling novel about surviving your 20s, Everything I Know About Love, has found its cast.
Bel Powley (The Morning Show, Informer, Diary of a Teenage Girl) and Emma Appleton (Pistol, The Witcher, Traitors) will play Birdy (Powley) and Maggie (Appleton), two childhood best friends whose love story is central to the seven-part series, being made for BBC One by NBCUniversal International Studios-owned Working Title Television.
Joining the two are Marli Siu (Alex Rider) playing Nell, Jordan Peters (Pirates, Gangs of London) playing Neil and making their on-screen TV debuts are Aliyah Odoffin playing Amara, Connor Finch playing Street; and Ryan Bown ...
Bel Powley (The Morning Show, Informer, Diary of a Teenage Girl) and Emma Appleton (Pistol, The Witcher, Traitors) will play Birdy (Powley) and Maggie (Appleton), two childhood best friends whose love story is central to the seven-part series, being made for BBC One by NBCUniversal International Studios-owned Working Title Television.
Joining the two are Marli Siu (Alex Rider) playing Nell, Jordan Peters (Pirates, Gangs of London) playing Neil and making their on-screen TV debuts are Aliyah Odoffin playing Amara, Connor Finch playing Street; and Ryan Bown ...
- 8/24/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Emma Appleton (“The Witcher”) and Bel Powley (“The Morning Show”) have nabbed the lead roles in Working Title Television’s forthcoming adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s memoir “Everything I Know About Love.”
Appleton is currently filming FX series “Pistol,” about the Sex Pistols, where she plays the tragic Nancy Spungen, who was murdered by her boyfriend, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. She has also appeared in “The Witcher.”
Powley is best known as Claire Conway in “The Morning Show” and Minnie in “The Diary of a Teenage Girl.”
The duo will play childhood best friends Maggie and Birdy as they move into a house-share in their twenties as they navigate heartbreak, romance and growing up. China Moo-Young (“Intergalactic”) is set to direct the 7-part series.
Appleton and Powley will be joined on-screen by Marli Siu (“Alex Rider”) and Jordan Peters (“Gangs of London”) as well as newcomers Aliyah Odoffin, Connor Finch and Ryan Bown.
Appleton is currently filming FX series “Pistol,” about the Sex Pistols, where she plays the tragic Nancy Spungen, who was murdered by her boyfriend, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. She has also appeared in “The Witcher.”
Powley is best known as Claire Conway in “The Morning Show” and Minnie in “The Diary of a Teenage Girl.”
The duo will play childhood best friends Maggie and Birdy as they move into a house-share in their twenties as they navigate heartbreak, romance and growing up. China Moo-Young (“Intergalactic”) is set to direct the 7-part series.
Appleton and Powley will be joined on-screen by Marli Siu (“Alex Rider”) and Jordan Peters (“Gangs of London”) as well as newcomers Aliyah Odoffin, Connor Finch and Ryan Bown.
- 8/23/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Emma Appleton (The Witcher) and Bel Powley (The Morning Show) have been set to lead the cast of Everything I Know About Love, the series that Dolly Alderton’s is writing based on her own hit memoir.
China Moo-Young (Intergalactic) is directing the seven-part show produced by NBCUniversal International Studios’ Working Title Television for BBC One.
The series will follow two childhood best friends, Maggie (Appleton) and Birdy (Powley). Set in a 2012 London house-share with flashbacks to suburban adolescence in the early noughties, the series is an unflinching deep dive into bad dates, heartaches and humiliations.
Also in the cast are Marli Siu (Alex Rider) as Nell, Jordan Peters (Pirates) as Neil, while making their on-screen TV debuts are Aliyah Odoffin as Amara, Connor Finch as Street; and Ryan Bown as Nathan. Filming is set to get underway in Manchester and London, it will air on the BBC in 2022.
“I...
China Moo-Young (Intergalactic) is directing the seven-part show produced by NBCUniversal International Studios’ Working Title Television for BBC One.
The series will follow two childhood best friends, Maggie (Appleton) and Birdy (Powley). Set in a 2012 London house-share with flashbacks to suburban adolescence in the early noughties, the series is an unflinching deep dive into bad dates, heartaches and humiliations.
Also in the cast are Marli Siu (Alex Rider) as Nell, Jordan Peters (Pirates) as Neil, while making their on-screen TV debuts are Aliyah Odoffin as Amara, Connor Finch as Street; and Ryan Bown as Nathan. Filming is set to get underway in Manchester and London, it will air on the BBC in 2022.
“I...
- 8/23/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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