Birdsong comes to Holmes's roost
The BBC is to fill the post-Sherlock Sunday-night void with an adaptation of Sebastian Faulks's first world war novel
With an impatient flick of his greatcoat collar, Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock has helped BBC1 re-establish itself as the home of must-watch Sunday night drama. But it has also left the corporation in a quandary: how to follow its eagerly-received literary adaptation.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
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