source: The Hollywood Reporter
By Kimberly Nordyke
March 10, 2008
HBO has retained the services of "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency."
It had been rumored for months that Anthony Minghella's adaptation of the best-selling books by Alexander McCall Smith could wind up as a TV series, though nothing was official until now.
HBO has partnered with the Weinstein Co. and the BBC on the drama series, ordering 13 hourlong episodes to begin filming in the summer. That's in addition to the two-hour pilot that Minghella recently shot in Botswana from a script he wrote with Richard Curtis ("Four Weddings and a Funeral").
HBO has obtained U.S. and Canadian television and home video rights, and the BBC
has taken U.K. television distribution. TWC, which controls all other international territories, is planning to take the project to MIP in April.
"Agency" stars Jill Scott as Precious Ramotswe, the proprietor of the only female-owned [continue reading]
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