Sally Rooney

BBC to adapt Sally Rooney’s ‘Conversations with Friends’

The BBC is doubling down on its adaptations of acclaimed author Sally Rooney’s work. BBC Drama is to adapt the writer’s best-selling debut novel Conversations With Friends (12×30-minutes). The news comes ahead of the Spring launch of the BBC and Hulu’s adaptation of Rooney’s Normal People. Like Normal People, Conversations with Friends will be produced […]

Hulu boards Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’

Hulu has boarded the BBC’s upcoming adaptation of Sally Rooney’s acclaimed novel Normal People, which has just gone into production as a 12×30 series through Element Pictures. Adapted by Rooney alongside writers Alice Birch and Mark O’Rowe, Normal People will star Daisy Edgar Jones (War of the Worlds, Cold Feet) as Marianne and Paul Mescal in his first television role as Connell. […]

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