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FILTER RESULTS ►Victoria Campa: From Extraordinary to Ordinary: Rowling's 'A Casual Vacancy' is Anything but Boring
JK Rowling's new adult novel "A Casual Vacancy" lacks wands and a scar-branded young hero, yet it is a refreshing change from the author who never ceases to amaze.
The most disappointing books of 2012
“The Casual Vacancy,” J.K. Rowling: Rowling’s first novel for adults sputters into an unsatisfying read. The death of a local parish councilor sends the community of Pagford spinning into mayhem, as secrets unravel and a tangled web of affairs (both personal and bureaucratic) emerges. It’s a...
BBC Hires Producer for J.K. Rowing's 'The Casual Vacancy' TV Adaptation
Paul Trijbits is charged with hiring a writer for the initial script and will guide the BBC commissioned adaptation into production. read more
Paul Trijbits To Exec Produce BBC Adaptation Of J.K. Rowling’s ‘The Casual Vacancy’
Jane Eyre producer and Saving Mr. Banks executive producer Paul Trijbits has been brought on to exec produce The Casual Vacancy TV series that’s being mounted by The Blair Partnership and the BBC. Trijbits is the former managing director of London-based Ruby Film and Television. Show More Summary
Book Club: World-saving chef Jamie Oliver's new cookbook...
World-saving chef Jamie Oliver's new cookbook 15-Minute Meals has overtaken JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy in sales in the UK. It is now the best-selling hardcover book of the year.
Borders Line: And In Less Exciting BBC News…
J.K. Rowling's disappointing CASUAL VACANCY will get the BBC mini-series treatment.
Senate Casual Vacancies and the Impact of Constitutional Change
The Australian constitution was changed in 1977 to stop the manipulation of Senate party numbers, but Bob Carr's appointment reveals an unintended consequence of the change.
BBC to Turn Rowling’s Casual Vacancy Into TV Series
J.K. Rowling’s first adult novel, 'The Casual Vacancy,' is going to get the small-screen treatment by the BBC.
News by Dean Fetzer
First J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books were turned into a successful film series, now her (widely panned)...Show More Summary
J.K. Rowling’s ‘Casual Vacancy’ Becoming BBC TV Series
BBC One will adapt J.K. Rowling's first adult novel, 'The Casual Vacancy', into a TV series slated to air in 2014.
New Rowling Novel to Made Into a TV Drama
"The Casual Vacancy" will be shown by the BBC in 2014.
J.K.Rowling and E.L.James among the winners as the 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards are announced
J.K.Rowling’s ‘The Casual Vacancy’ won the ‘Best Fiction’ category in this year’s Goodreads Choice Awards. The novel, which is Rowling’s first adult offering, beat out competition such as Junot Diaz’s ‘This Is How You Lose Her’ and Emily Giffin’s ‘Where We Belong.’ The Goodreads Choice...
J.K.Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' to be made into TV series
J.K.Rowling’s “The Casual Vacancy” — her first “grown up” novel — is set to be adapted for the small screen, in a dramatization that will take the form of a TV series to be aired by the BBC in 2014. According the BBC, Rowling was “thrilled” to hear that her novel — which focusses on...
Marcia Cross’ Book Buying Spree
Former ‘Desperate Housewives‘ star Marcia Cross stopped by the Brentwood Country Mart. She left with a stack of books. Looks like she plans to read the new J.K. Rowling book, ‘The Casual Vacancy,’ and a Barbara Kingsolver novel (can’t quite … Continue reading »
Book News: Judy Blume Trio, “Casual Vacancy” On TV
J. K. Rowling’s “The Casual Vacancy” will be adapted into a BBC television series.
Symbolia, a new iPad journal specializing in comics and illustrated nonfiction, launched yesterday in the app store.
A Boston bookstore is voting this Sunday on whether to sell one of its two first-edition copies of the first book ever published in North America. Show More Summary
Goodreads Choice Award Winners Revealed
With 11,525 votes, The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling has won the Best Fiction award at the Goodreads Choice Awards. Earning 20,328 votes, Veronica Roth was named Best Goodreads Author for Insurgent. We’ve collected all the winners below,...Show More Summary
Harry Potter Scribe J.K. Rowling Brings Muggle-Centric Novel To TV!
Does BBC stand for Beefy Boner Channel?! It certainly should, because that's exactly what popped into our undies when we heard this exhilarating news! J.K. Rowling's new hit novel, A Casual Vacancy, is coming to the small screen and though there won't be wizards, dragons, or even the Dursleys of four Privet Drive, we're awarding 10 points [...]
TV on Tap: "The L.A. Complex" Gets the Axe, J.K. Rowling's "Casual Vacancy" Coming to the Small Screen and Howard Stern Will Stay with "America's Got Talent"
It's the last Christmas before breaking out the "Baby's First Christmas" ornament on The New Normal.
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Canadian channel MuchMusic (or is it just Much now?) has decided to pass on a third season of the critically-acclaimed L.A. Complex. Show More Summary
Why is the BBC wasting our money on JK Rowling's socialist misery porn?
JK Rowling says it made her want to cry, the scene in her first adult book The Casual Vacancy, where council-flat Krystal tells her little brother Robbie to eat his crisps before his Rolos. I'll bet it did. I've no doubt in JK's imagination, its one of those literary heartbreak moments right up there [...]
JK Rowling's 'Casual Vacancy' to become a BBC drama series
'Harry Potter' author's first adult book failed to impress critics, but that hasn't stopped the Beeb
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CRITICS said it was either too rude, too political or too dull, but that hasn't deterred...Show More Summary
BBC to Turn J.K. Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' Into TV Series
The U.K. public broadcaster will adapt the author's first post-"Harry Potter" novel into a project for its flagship channel. read more
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