After You’ve Gone
Hit BBC comedy After You’ve Gone, returned to BBC One for a third series this week. This much loved family show starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Celia Imrie can be seen on Sunday evenings at 18.30 and Jon Brown and Katie Douglas are on the writing team.
Twiggy's Frock Exchange
Today sees the launch of Twiggy’s new show on BBC2.
Starting tonight on BBC2, the first in a three part series in which Twiggy, the world’s first supermodel, and her team set to work to re-fashion a studio full of ladies.
Picking up on the new craze for ‘swishing’, 100 women arrive in one set of clothes and after some expert help and advice on all aspects of their appearance, including hair and make up; they leave looking and feeling a million dollars . . . and all without spending a single penny!
The programme is full of hints and tips for the rest of us too . . .
So, don’t miss:
Twiggy’s Frock Exchange. Tuesdays at 8pm on BBC2.
PFD launches its Frankfurt Book Fair Rights Guide
PFD's rights guide for the Frankfurt Book Fair is now available to download here
Please get in touch with Foreign Right's agent Louisa Pritchard or her assistant Claire Daniel with any enquiries about translation rights for our authors.
The Sunday Times Must Read
Peters Fraser and Dunlop are pleased to announce that both Simon Schama's The American Future: A History (Bodley Head) and Philip Norman's John Lennon: The Life (HarperCollins) have been selected as Must Reads by The Sunday Times, which calls them 'a stirring defence of the red, white and blue' and a 'compulsive, impressively researched biography' respectively.
Simon’s programme, of the same name, also begins this Friday, the 10th of October, on BBC2. A trailer for the programme can be viewed here.
DUNCAN MACMILLAN DIRECTS NEW PLAY AT FINBOROUGH
Award-winning playwright and director Duncan Macmillan is directing the world premiere of Simon Vinnecombe’s new play CRADLE ME.
The play runs from Wednesday 1 October until 25 October 2008. For more information, including how to book tickets, please see this link
"beautifully directed" WHATSON
"Duncan Macmillan's impressive production" THIS IS LONDON
Children's Award News
Our children's client John Fardell has been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Award for his picture book Manfred the Baddie - results announced on Oct 13th.
Guildford Book Festival First Novel Award
Peters Fraser and Dunlop are pleased to announce that Roland Vernon’s A Dark Enchantment has been shortlisted for the Guildford Book Festival First Novel Award. The prize will be announced at a gala dinner on the 15th of October. You can find out more details by clicking here. Past winners of the prize include Mike Stocks, Clare Clarke and Hari Kunzru.
Christian the Lion and PFD
Peters Fraser and Dunlop are pleased to announce that they have signed John Rendall, the joint author with Ace Bourke of A Lion Called Christian. It is the story of two young Australians buying a lion from Harrods and raising him in 60s London before taking him to the wild and to George Adamson. The YouTube video of their reunion one year on with Christian, then in the wild, is currently one of the most popular videos on YouTube and is riding high in the Viral Video Chart. It has been seen by more than 44 million people across the globe. There are new plans for reviving the story of Christian across different disciplines. If you have any enquiries about John please contact Caroline Michel.
To watch the famous YouTube video please click here