A television series adapting spy novelist John le Carre’s The Little Drummer Girl will not include scenes from an ancient site near Athens after a panel of archaeologists turned down an access request by the BBC and US-based cable network AMC. Florence Pugh stars in the drama (Ian West/PA)“We have declared that Greece is now film-friendly. Filming at Greek archaeological sites, whether for commercial productions or news reporting, requires a permit from archaeologists that is often near impossible and very costly to obtain. In the 1983 novel, an Israeli spy chief hunts a Palestinian bomber around Europe, recruiting a young English actress to try to expose him. His work is also widely known from the BBC TV series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley’s People, starring Sir Alec Guinness as Cold War intelligence officer George Smiley.

Source: Irish Examiner March 29, 2018 18:11 UTC