"spy novels in 2006. Paramount Television and The Ink Factory—who had previously produced ""The Night Manager""—are developing a limited series based on the novel, with Simon Beaufoy as the writer. On 14 January 2017, AMC and the BBC joined with The Ink Factory for the series. Le Carré's book won a 1963 Gold Dagger award from the Crime Writers' Association for ""Best Crime Novel"". Two years later the US edition was awarded the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for ""Best Mystery Novel"". It was the first work to win the award for ""Best Novel"" from both mystery"
"Lyric Hammersmith from 2005 to 2009. In 2009 he joined Royal Shakespeare Company as Associate Director. He wrote regularly for Spooks for the BBC and is a film writer having co-written the Joe Wright film ""Hanna"", released in 2011. Farr's adaptation of John le Carré's novel The Night Manager, was aired in 2016 on BBC1. David Farr (theatre director) David Farr (born 29 October 1969) is a British writer, theatrical director and Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Farr was brought up in Surrey and educated in Guildford and the University of Cambridge (English Literature double first). Farr began"
"and Lykke May Andersen. It was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Taking a break from film, Bier directed The Night Manager, a British television serial starring Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, David Harewood, Tom Hollander, and Elizabeth Debicki. It is based on the 1993 novel of the same name by John le Carré and adapted to the present day by David Farr. The six-part series began broadcasting on BBC One on 21 February 2016. In the United States, it began on 19 April 2016 on AMC. It has been sold internationally"
"to over 180 countries, and a second series has been commissioned by the BBC and AMC. Scripting duties for the second series will be handled by Matthew Orton, Charles Cumming, Namsi Khan and Francesca Gardiner. The first series of ""The Night Manager"" was nominated for 36 awards and won 11, including two Emmy Awards for director Susanne Bier and music composer Victor Reyes and three Golden Globes for Best Performance to Tom Hiddleston, Best Performance for an Actress in a Supporting Role to Olivia Colman, and Best Performance for a Supporting Actor for Hugh Laurie. The series received widespread critical"
"and Medical Network Book of the Year Award for ""Hitler's Scientists"", 2005; and received the Independent Television Authority-Tablet Award for contributions to religious journalism (1994). In 1982 he won the Gold Dagger Award Non-Fiction (1982) for ""Earth to Earth"". He is best known for his investigative journalism; memoir; and his work in public understanding of science. In addition to his books on the relationship between science, ethics and the humanities, he has written widely on the Catholic Church and the modern papacy. John Cornwell was born in East Ham, London, the son of Sidney Arthur Cornwell and Kathleen Egan Cornwell."
"executive producers Gary Sinise and David Scantling. He has been nominated for two Emmy Awards: Outstanding Drama Series for ""24"", and Outstanding Limited Series for """" (1977). He was nominated for the Producers Guild of America Award for Producer of the Year in an Episodic Drama, for ""24"". Norman Powell (television executive) Norman Scott Powell (né Barnes; November 2, 1934) is an American television executive. Norman Scott Barnes was born November 2, 1934, in Los Angeles. The son of actress Joan Blondell and cinematographer George Barnes, he was adopted by his mother's second husband, Dick Powell in February 1938 under"
"Tristram Powell Tristram Roger Dymoke Powell (born 25 April 1940) is an English television and film director, producer and screenwriter. His credits include ""American Friends"", episodes of series five and six of ""Foyle's War"", and adaptations of the novels ""The Ghost Writer"" and ""Falling"". Powell was born in Oxford, the elder son of the novelist Anthony Powell and Lady Violet Powell (née Pakenham). His godfather was Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, the last squire of Felbrigg Hall and a noted biographer. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford. Tristram Powell's father died in 2000, and he has recounted the"
"A Thief in the Night (Cornwell book) A Thief in The Night is a 1989 book by British historian and journalist John Cornwell on Pope John Paul I conspiracy theories in which the author challenges previous writings on the subject by David Yallop. Yallop’s murder theory requires that the pope’s body be found at 4:30 or 4:45 a.m., one hour earlier than official reports estimated. He bases this on an early story by the Italian news service ANSA that garbled the time and misrepresented the layout of the papal apartments. Yallop also claims to have had testimony from Sister Vincenza"
"Night"" when the idea took shape. Jimmy Fallon then developed it into a recurring segment on his show. The show proved to be a major success for Spike; its series premiere was the highest-rated non-scripted premiere in Spike's history. In July 2016, the show received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in the Outstanding Structured Reality Program category. In 2014, Krasinski collaborated with his ""Promised Land"" co-star and co-writer Matt Damon on the critically acclaimed 2016 drama ""Manchester by the Sea"" which starred Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams. The film was written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan and is based on"
"in Edinburgh while he worked for BBC Northern Ireland; she was a travel agent from the US and the mother of three children from a previous marriage. He relocated to the United States in 1979 after marrying her. He was unable to get a United States Permanent Resident Card (green card), so he started writing novels, as this did not require a work permit. He later became a United States citizen. As a child, Cornwell loved the novels of C. S. Forester chronicling the adventures of fictional British naval officer Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars. He was surprised to"
"Bernard Cornwell Bernard Cornwell, (born 23 February 1944) is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has written historical novels primarily on English history in five series, and one series of contemporary thriller novels. A feature of his historical novels is an end note on how they match or differ from history, and what one might see at the modern site of the battles described. One series is set in the American Civil War. He wrote a nonfiction book on"
"Blunt, John Cairncross, and Kim Philby, later known as the Cambridge Five, had been exposed as KGB moles. The five had risen to very senior positions in branches of the British government. The book, based on the premise of uncovering a Soviet double agent in the SIS, offers a novelisation of this period. It is also set against the larger theme of the decline of British influence on the world stage after World War II, with the USA and the USSR emerging as the dominant superpowers leading into the period of the Cold War. David Cornwell, who wrote under the"
"senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University. ""The Hours"" established Cunningham as a major force in U.S. writing, and his 2010 novel, ""By Nightfall"", was also well received by U.S. critics. Cunningham edited a book of poetry and prose by Walt Whitman, ""Laws for Creations"", and co-wrote, with Susan Minot, a screenplay adapted from Minot's novel ""Evening"". He was a producer for the 2007 film ""Evening"", starring Glenn Close, Toni Collette, and Meryl Streep. In November 2010, Cunningham judged one of NPR's ""Three Minute Fiction"" contests. Although Cunningham is gay and was in a long-term domestic partnership with psychoanalyst"
"Jonathan Powell (producer) Jonathan Leslie Powell (born 25 April 1947 in Sittingbourne, Kent) is a British television producer and executive, and later a professor and head of department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Powell was educated at Sherborne School and the University of East Anglia where he studied English Literature. In 1968, he began working in television drama, producing programmes such as ""Crown Court"". Working for the BBC, he produced several drama series during the 1970s and 1980s, including literary adaptations such as ""A Christmas Carol"" (1977), ""Wuthering Heights"" (1978), ""Testament of Youth"" (1979), ""Pride and"
"not what it seems. Scoundrel (novel) Scoundrel is a thriller book written by English author Bernard Cornwell. The story of the book is set in Europe, in 1990, just after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. It features Paul (Paulie) Shanahan, a Bostonian, who had moved to Europe in his role a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). In his recent past, a woman, Roisin, had been caught by the Libyans, and found out as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative. Under the torture, and shortly before her execution, she had claimed Paul Shanhaan was also a sleeper member"
"as Tredwell ""Jonathan Coote"" as Lemoine ""Jacqueline Dutoit"" as Old Lady ""Robin Harvey Edwards"" as Lord Caterham ""Michele Gallagher"" as Lady Eileen Brent ""Martyn James"" as The Hon. George Lomax ""Jonathan Dryden Taylor"" as Bill Eversleigh ""Darrell Brockis"" as Anthony Cade ""Flora Berkeley"" as Virginia Revel ""Richard Addison"" as the Stranger ""Ronald Simon"" as Superintendent Battle ""Matthew Lloyd Davies"" as Herbert Banks ""Richard Galazka"" as Boris Anchoukoff Chimneys (play) Chimneys is a play by crime writer Agatha Christie and is based upon her own 1925 novel ""The Secret of Chimneys"". The play was written in 1931 and was due to"
"Lincoln College, Oxford, where he worked covertly for the British Security Service, MI5, spying on far-left groups for information about possible Soviet agents. When his father was declared bankrupt in 1954, Cornwell left Oxford to teach at Millfield Preparatory School; however, a year later he returned to Oxford, and graduated in 1956 with a first class Bachelor of Arts degree. He then taught French and German at Eton College for two years, becoming an MI5 officer in 1958. He ran agents, conducted interrogations, tapped telephone lines and effected break-ins. Encouraged by Lord Clanmorris (who wrote crime novels as ""John Bingham""),"
"Scoundrel (novel) Scoundrel is a thriller book written by English author Bernard Cornwell. The story of the book is set in Europe, in 1990, just after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. It features Paul (Paulie) Shanahan, a Bostonian, who had moved to Europe in his role a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). In his recent past, a woman, Roisin, had been caught by the Libyans, and found out as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative. Under the torture, and shortly before her execution, she had claimed Paul Shanhaan was also a sleeper member of the CIA. As"
"""End of the Night"", a thriller with gothic overtones, was produced by Long Shadow Productions in the summer of 2003. In 2007 Cartmel was a finalist in the Nicotinell 'Lose the Smoke Keep the Fire' Stand Up Comedy Auditions. Andrew Cartmel Andrew Cartmel (born 1958) is a British author and journalist. He was also the script editor of ""Doctor Who"" from 1987 to 1989. He has also worked as a script editor on other television series, as a magazine editor, as a comics writer, as a film studies lecturer, and as a novelist. Cartmel took a post-graduate course in Computer"
"Nicholas Cowell Nicholas Andrew Cowell (born 7 March 1961) is a British estate agent, co-founder and director of Estate Office Property Consultants, and head of the Cowell Group. He is the brother of Simon Cowell and author Tony Cowell and has appeared on the UK television series ""The Block"" as a judge. The brothers grew up in Elstree in Hertfordshire, next door to Joan Collins. In the late 1970s he began work as an estate agency office junior at Garrard Smith & Partners and subsequently bought the company in 1983 with his business partner Adrian Levy. It was later renamed"
"top ten; it was broadcast immediately after the variety show ""Sunday Night at the London Palladium"". Even so, Pinter once estimated that his stage play ""The Caretaker"", enjoying its first run at the time, would have to be performed for thirty years before matching ""A Night Out""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s audience of 6,380,000. The German Jewish dramatist Robert Muller, who had arrived in Britain as a refugee in 1938, contributed seven plays to the series, three being transmitted in 1962 and directed by Philip Saville, including ""Afternoon of a Nymph"". Saville worked on more than forty episodes in the series, while Muller's wife"
"Bruno Heller Bruno Heller (born 1960) is an English screenwriter, producer and director. He is known for creating the HBO television series ""Rome"" and CBS television series ""The Mentalist"". He has recently produced the TV series ""Gotham"" – based on the Batman franchise – for FOX. Heller's father, Lukas, was a German Jewish emigre and screenwriter (""Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte"", ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?""). His mother, Caroline (née Carter), was an English Quaker and instrumental in keeping up the Labour Party's ""Save London Transport Campaign"". He has three siblings, including Zoë, a columnist and writer who has published"
"David Avery David Avery (born 6 April 1986) is a British film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for ""The Night Manager"", ""Starred Up"" and ""Lost in London"". Avery was born 6 April 1986 in Birmingham, England. He attended Baverstock Secondary School in Druids Heath, Birmingham until 2002. After graduating Avery relocated to North London with his immediate family. In 2007 he auditioned for the Central School of Speech and Drama and earned a place on the MA Acting for Screen course. Avery's first on screen role came in 2009 by starring in the third series of ""Sofia's"
"The Fort (novel) The Fort is a historical novel written by Bernard Cornwell which relates to the events of the Penobscot Expedition of 1779 during the American Revolutionary War. It is centered on the efforts of the British to establish and hold the fort against superior numbers of American patriots, and it contrasts the actions of two men, John Moore, who later laid the foundations of the light infantry doctrine used by the 95th Rifles and others against the French in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and Paul Revere, hero of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem. Cornwell portrays Revere as an"
"Bedtime Stories"". Created by ""Coronation Street"" writer Jonathan Harvey, the webisodes featured Ken and Deirdre mulling over the events of their day while in bed. Roache said, ""Each episode has been carefully crafted and injected with humour, warmth and drama. The content takes ""Coronation Street"" into new and exciting territory which, for me personally, is thoroughly exciting to be a part of."" In 2010 a comedy play about ""Coronation Street"" was released entitled ""Corrie!"", penned by scriptwriter Jonathan Harvey. Ken Barlow was played by Simon Chadwick in the production. Harvey has suggested that when he researched the play, in the"
"at the 2010 New Zealand Film Festival in Auckland, and went on to win numerous international awards. Stephen has written the novels ""Thief of Colours"" (Penguin Books, 1995), and ""Dread"" (Spineless Press, 2000). He is currently writing a novel set in late Roman Britain. Stephen Sinclair Stephen Sinclair is a New Zealand playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the co-author of stage comedy sensation ""Ladies Night"", which continues to be performed throughout the world. In 2001, the French version won the prestigious Molière Award for stage comedy of the year. Other plays include ""The Bellbird"" and ""The Bach"", both of"
"film The Haunting in Connecticut. The film had its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas and stars Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, and Martin Donovan. It was released in March 2009 and went on to gross over $77 million worldwide. Cornwell also directed the feature film ""Mercy"", an adaptation of Stephen King's short story ""Gramma"", which was produced by Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions, McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision, and Universal Pictures. ""Mercy"" starred Chandler Riggs, Joel Courtney, Frances O'Connor and Mark Duplass. Peter Cornwell (director) Peter Cornwell is a film director from Australia. Cornwell got"
"insubordinate, unreliable, and selfish character. The Fort (novel) The Fort is a historical novel written by Bernard Cornwell which relates to the events of the Penobscot Expedition of 1779 during the American Revolutionary War. It is centered on the efforts of the British to establish and hold the fort against superior numbers of American patriots, and it contrasts the actions of two men, John Moore, who later laid the foundations of the light infantry doctrine used by the 95th Rifles and others against the French in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and Paul Revere, hero of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem."
"John Cornwell (writer) John Cornwell (born 1940) is a British journalist, author, and academic. Since 1990 he has directed the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he is also, since 2009, Founder and Director of the Rustat Conferences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (University of Leicester) in 2011. He was nominated for the PEN/Ackerley Prize for best UK memoir 2007 (""Seminary Boy"") and shortlisted Specialist Journalist of the Year (science, medicine in ""Sunday Times Magazine""), British Press Awards 2006. He won the Scientific"
"such as Cassell, Carlton Books and Pen and Sword Books. Bob Carruthers Bob Carruthers (born November 1960) is a Scottish filmmaker, author and broadcaster. Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, Carruthers attended Kirkcaldy High School. After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1981 and working for Central Television (now ITV Central) Carruthers founded the documentary production company Cromwell Productions Ltd, based in Stratford-upon-Avon. During the 1990s, Cromwell Productions Ltd became a production company specialising in historical and arts documentaries. Carruthers was the writer and producer behind ""Music Maestro"", ""Campaigns In History"", ""Line of Fire"", ""Weapons of War"", ""The English Civil"
"shows Tim unable to open his door and let Isabel into his house, overwhelmed by the fear that his destructive influence might reach even to her. No Night Is Too Long No Night Is Too Long is a 2002 BBC dramatization based on the novel of the same name by Barbara Vine (a pseudonym of Ruth Rendell), with a screenplay by Kevin Elyot. The plot follows a creative writing student from Suffolk named Tim Cornish (Lee Williams), an exceptional student who leads a promiscuous lifestyle. A series of chance meetings with Dr. Ivo Steadman (Marc Warren), a lecturer at Tim's"
"two meetings in 2009 discussed the global Economic Crisis, and the Future of Democracy. The third Rustat Conferences meeting addressed Infrastructure and the Future of Society – infrastructure for energy security, cities of the future, and water. John Cornwell (writer) John Cornwell (born 1940) is a British journalist, author, and academic. Since 1990 he has directed the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he is also, since 2009, Founder and Director of the Rustat Conferences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters (University of Leicester)"
"Company by Broadcast magazine. Kudos was bought by Shine TV for £35m in 2006. Garrett stood down from Kudos in 2014 to “reinvent [himself]” as an independent producer with the aim of “blurring the boundaries and the fusion of forms [of film and television]”. In collaboration with the Ink Factory, Garrett has been lead executive producer on ""The Night Manager"" (2016), a mini-series for the AMC TV channel and the BBC based on the eponymous John le Carré novel, starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston and directed by Susanne Bier. In 2016, Garrett launched a new production company, Character Seven."