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Oscar Wilde Mysteries
Fry's Sprout Options Oscar Wilde Mysteries For TV
Stephen Fry's indie company Sprout Pictures has optioned the rights to Gyles Brandreth's series of novels, The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries. All three novels - Candlelight Murders, Ring Of Death and Dead Man¹s Smile - feature the celebrated playwright and raconteur solving crimes with the help of friends including Arthur Conan Doyle.
³Gyles has created a series of funny, clever and enthralling novels and we are overjoyed to be developing the Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries for television. They will bring to the small screen a dash of style, wit and romance spiced with the melodrama, the mysterious and the macabre that is so wonderfully characteristic of the late Victorian world.²
Sprout Pictures, which Fry founded with co-MD Gina Carter in 2004, works across drama and documentary. Credits include three series of Kingdom for ITV1 and Fry In America - which followed Stephen Fry¹s adventures across the USA for the BBC. In February of this year, BBC Worldwide acquired a 25% stake in the indie company.
posted 25th September, 2009
"If you can, tell me something happy."
- Marybones
Stephen Fry's indie company Sprout Pictures has optioned the rights to Gyles Brandreth's series of novels, The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries. All three novels - Candlelight Murders, Ring Of Death and Dead Man¹s Smile - feature the celebrated playwright and raconteur solving crimes with the help of friends including Arthur Conan Doyle.
³Gyles has created a series of funny, clever and enthralling novels and we are overjoyed to be developing the Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries for television. They will bring to the small screen a dash of style, wit and romance spiced with the melodrama, the mysterious and the macabre that is so wonderfully characteristic of the late Victorian world.²
Sprout Pictures, which Fry founded with co-MD Gina Carter in 2004, works across drama and documentary. Credits include three series of Kingdom for ITV1 and Fry In America - which followed Stephen Fry¹s adventures across the USA for the BBC. In February of this year, BBC Worldwide acquired a 25% stake in the indie company.
posted 25th September, 2009
"If you can, tell me something happy."
- Marybones
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[nq:1]Stephen Fry's indie company Sprout Pictures has optioned the rights to Gyles Brandreth's series of novels, The Oscar Wilde Murder ... [/nq] This is especially interesting because the general trend among UK TV drama commissioners at the moment is to distrust anything that isn't set in the present day. I suppose that Fry's name and audience-pulling power (assuming that he were to play Wilde) is a powerful convincer.
- [nq:1]Stephen Fry's indie company Sprout Pictures has optioned the rights to Gyles Brandreth's series of novels, The Oscar Wilde Murder ...
- [/nq] This is especially interesting because the general trend among UK TV drama commissioners at the moment is to distrust anything that isn't set in the present day.
- I suppose that Fry's name and audience-pulling power (assuming that he were to play Wilde) is a powerful convincer.
- I read the first book in the series and enjoyed it, but it's difficult to shake off the public persona of the author, who for years has presented himself as a more than somewhat smarm-bucket smart-***.
- Bert
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