With MagpieMurders finally arriving on the BBC tonight, Anthony Horowitz has opened up on the making of the adaptation of his 2016 novel, which the BBC had originally turned down the chance to help him create.
‘I always thought of it when I wrote it as being a perfect show for the BBC. I’m not quite sure why, but it has so many of the values of shows… you know of a classic detective series yet with something different happening, a twist to it, old fashioned and new.
At the time, the BBC felt that the book was ‘too complicated to adapt’, Anthony recollected, that ‘it just couldn’t be done’. After several rewrites, Anthony finally found the key formula for the TV adaptation, with pivotal guidance from his wife Jill Green, who he described as being ‘so clever’ when it comes to scriptwriting.supports HTML5 video
‘You can’t have your audience getting lost after 20 minutes or they’ll turn off. So it was difficult to get it right but in the end I did and here it is.’
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