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ITV adapted the story into a television programme in the series Agatha Christie's Poirot starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot and Zoë Wanamaker as Ariadne Oliver, which aired in the US on A & E Network in December 2005 and, in the UK, on ITV1 in March 2006.
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In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles was adapted as a 103-minute drama and transmitted on ITV in the UK on Sunday September 16, 1990 as a special episode in their series Agatha Christie's Poirot to celebrate the centenary of the author's birth.
The books were adapted for radio and television a number of times, most successfully with former Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee taking the lead role from 1979 to 1981 on ITV ; originally produced in the UK, but later in New Zealand
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was adapted as a 103-minute drama transmitted in the U. K. on ITV Sunday January 2, 2000, as a special episode in their series, Agatha Christie's Poirot.
The town was also adapted to resemble a seaside village where Oliver is born for the ITV TV miniseries Oliver Twist.
Tozer's novels were first adapted for television as Here Comes Mumfie, using puppetry, between 1975 and 1976 and broadcast on Independent Television ( ITV ) in the United Kingdom.
Ten of the novels were adapted as a television series on ITV, starring John Hannah as Rebus in Series 1 & 2, with Ken Stott taking on the role for Series 3-5.
It has also been adapted for television, as a serial in 1971 by the BBC, and as a two-hour ITV 2005 television movie, starring Alex Pettyfer as Tom and Stephen Fry as Dr. Arnold.
The show has brought a large number of detective series and television movies — most of them British productions from the BBC or the ITV companies and usually adapted from mystery fiction literary sources — to air on American television.
Sections of the story were adapted into episodes of the ITV series Jeeves and Wooster.
Stig of the Dump was adapted for television, firstly by Thames Television for ITV in 1981 and later by the BBC in 2002 ( starring Thomas Sangster ).
In 1966 Scenes from Provincial Life and Scenes from Married Life were adapted for a seven-part ITV series, You Can't Win, starring Ian McShane.
First Among Equals was adapted into a Granada Television serial transmitted by ITV in 1986.
Quiet as a Nun was adapted for television by ITV in 1978, as part of the Armchair Thriller series.
In 1987, Cosgrove Hall Films adapted it for Thames ITV.
* In 1989, the story was adapted for television for Britain's ITV network.
The first ten novels ( in the order shown below ) were adapted by Anglia Television for transmission on the ITV network and starred Roy Marsden as Dalgliesh.
The show was adapted by Jenny McDade from books written by Forrest Wilson and was produced by Tyne Tees Television for Children's ITV.
He adapted his own novel Chimera for ITV and directed the adaptation of Oktober as well as writing the feature-length episode The Kingdom of Bones for the BBC series Murder Rooms.
The book was adapted by London Weekend Television as a one hundred-minute drama and transmitted on ITV in the UK on Friday 26 December 2003 as a special episode in their series Agatha Christie's Poirot.
In 1984 Read adapted the John Wyndham novel, Chocky, for Children's ITV.
The book was adapted for Carlton Television in 1998 and appeared as a six-part 30-minute documentary broadcast on ITV from January to February 1999.
ITV adapted the novel for TV in 2001, as part of the Agatha Christie's Poirot series with David Suchet.
* In 2004, ITV adapted the novel as part of their ongoing Marple series.
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In June 2001, when ITV re-broadcast the censored version of The Dam Busters, the Index on Censorship criticised it as " unnecessary and ridiculous " censorship breaking the continuity of the film and the story.
The first series, co-produced by Witzend Productions and Central Television for ITV in 1983, is the story of seven out-of-work builders from various parts of Britain who are forced to look for work in West Germany, although it focuses primarily on three men from Newcastle upon Tyne making the journey to Germany, with the others being introduced along the way.
Along with the rest of ITV News, the channel was presented from the so-called ' theatre of news ' set, a large virtual studio allowing presentation either from behind a desk or by presenters walking around, using the news wall to explain a story with the aid of graphics.
He also appeared in the ITV drama serial The Sandbaggers and the Doctor Who story " Time-Flight ".
In 1995 he wrote, presented and co-produced two documentary series, The Prince of Wales-The Private Man, The Public Face ( ITV 1994 ) and The Last Governor-the story of the last five years of British rule in Hong Kong ( BBC 1, 1997 ).
Currently, Evans is directing the ITV produced television adaptation of Scottish crime novelist, Ian Rankin's Doors Open, which tells the story of a self-made millionaire, an art professor and a banker who come together to undertake an audacious art heist.
Kneale did eventually write a fourth Quatermass story, broadcast as a four-part serial, titled Quatermass, by ITV television in 1979, an edited version of which was also given a limited cinema release under the title The Quatermass Conclusion.
In 2001 he directed a modern-day adaptation of the story of Othello, produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network and starring Eamonn Walker, Christopher Eccleston and Keeley Hawes.
Season 17 saw the show garner its highest-ever viewing figures during the ITV network strike, with estimates of between 16 and 19 million viewers for episodes of the Williams and Adams penned story City of Death.
Howards ' Way was created and produced by Gerard Glaister and Allan Prior with lead writer, Raymond Thompson as story and script consultant-at a point in the BBC's history, when the organisation was making a concerted populist strike against ITV in its approach to programming.
His TV work included starring as Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel ( ITV, 1955 ), a series which he also co-wrote and produced ; Theodore Maxtible in the Doctor Who story The Evil of the Daleks ( BBC, 1967 ); title role in The Expert ( BBC, 1968 – 1976 ); George V in Edward and Mrs Simpson ( Thames, 1980 ); and The Old Men at the Zoo ( BBC, 1983 ).
The show's 100th story aired on Christmas Eve 2009 on the ITV Network.
Although Today was only shown in the London ITV region, it became a national story due to coverage and comment by the tabloid press.
16 / 1 / 1982 ), David Ben-Gurion ( The Light ), Napoleon Bonaparte ( The Man on the Rock ), Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Roger Casement ( Heart of Darkness 1992 ), and on one occasion a film commissioned by Thames Television on the story of the Three Wise Men of the New Testament, A Famous Journey ( ITV tx.
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The first system, ITV Digital, went into liquidation in 2002.
The Tube is a television documentary originally made by ITV in 2002 in October 2011 the director of BBC Two announced announced a " new " TV series called ' The Tube ' which looks into the life of those who work and travel on London Underground.
On 25 April 2008, ITV announced that the new series would go into production, and in June 2008, that American actor James Caviezel would star in the role of Number 6, with Ian McKellen taking on the role of Number 2 in all six episodes.
Indeed, the cost of the Football League deal proved one too many a burden for ITV Digital, and it was placed into administration on 27 March 2002, after the League refused to accept a £ 130m pay cut in its £ 315m deal with the ITV Sport Channel.
In Rising Damp, on ITV, he played Rigsby, the lecherous landlord of a house converted into seedy bedsits, reprising the role from its successful stage version, entitled The Banana Box.
ITV already owned some of SDN due to the consolidation of the ITV industry: Granada bought UNM's stake in SDN, and this was then incorporated into the united ITV plc.
After the ITV merger in 2004, the possibility of selling the Quay Street complex was considered and staff, studios and offices moved into the adjacent bonded warehouse building.
When the first ITV generic look was launched, Granada refused to adopt it, because the Granada logo was incorrectly inserted into the ' V ' segment of the logo.
It was the only ITA broadcaster created in 1954 that survived into the 21st century, and flourished it emerged the dominant player in the ITV network by 2000.
Flow diagram displaying consolidation of ITV franchises into ITV plc
Granada then went on to purchase all of UNM's television interests ( including its ITV franchises ), which brought Meridian, Anglia and HTV into its power, however due to regulation Granada was forced to sell HTV to Carlton.
After ITV's unification in 2002, the two London franchises, Carlton Television and London Weekend Television were merged into a single entity, ITV London, while the Wales and West franchise lost its official identity and instead was substituted with ITV Wales and ITV West on-air, with no reference linking the two together.
Broadcasting platform ITV Digital moved into part of the building as part of the settlement that saw Sky forced out of the original company.
The new company ran into further financial difficulty due to the staggering losses of the first two years of ITV and the start-up costs.
The ident would start with a pan of the video wall before drawing out to see the LWT logo spinning into place with the ITV logo below it.
Unique in ITV and reflecting the area's maritime history the company converted a Second World War motor torpedo boat into a floating outside broadcasting unit named Southerner.
As was the practice for hour-long programmes shown on terrestrial television at that time, the ITV regions inserted two commercial breaks into each episode enabling three parts per show.
Departures from presenting into other television roles, through a sitcom, a documentary series and fronting her own chat show, have all proven to be unsuccessful, and beyond Big Brother she has continued in the main as a presenter on Channel 4, ITV and Sky.
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