With Strike, a BBC1 series that starts tomorrow night, the writer joins the small group of British authors who have had all of their novels adapted for cinema or TV. With the Strike books, what Rowling also has in common with the Brontës and Eliot is the use of a male pseudonym. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Screen history … Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth in the 1995 TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Photograph: Allstar/BBCUnnerved by the Madonna-like celebrity and scrutiny imposed on her by the Potter books, Rowling hoped to hide for a while on another part of the bookshelf. Strike, as the TV series is called, has been made by Brontë Film and TV, a production company set up by Rowling.

Source: The Guardian August 26, 2017 10:52 UTC