That protective stance around the Minecraft IP also applies to any potential movie or TV adaptation, which is something the Manneh indicated the company has ongoing conversations around.

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Made as a series last year for British television and available now either as a single, mammoth five-hour movie or three features, the trilogy is based on a quartet of books (one was dropped for the TV adaptation) written by the British noir specialist David Peace.

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Ms. Hammerstein, whose acting career included appearances in the BBC TV adaptation of "The Forsyte Saga, " and who worked with '60s star directors Ken Loach and Ken Russell, said that in some ways performing in front of children can be more exciting than doing so for adults.

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Smith's TV debut was in the 2006 adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke, which starred former Doctor Who companion Billie Piper as Sally Lockhart.

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Yet another adaptation of an old TV series.

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Apart from the fact that it tells you nothing about sex and very little about the city in which it takes place, this adaptation of the successful TV series is titled with accuracy and pith.

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Just where to look for the house and grounds (and whether you're also looking for that all important lake, of course) depends which adaptation you favor: The 1995 TV version was filmed at Lyme Park in Cheshire (exterior scenes), and Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire (interior scenes).

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To call the adaptation of scripted formats a new tactic is to ignore TV relics like 1970s' All in the Family and Three's Company--both of which hailed from Britain--and more recent hits The Office (from Britain) and Ugly Betty (from Columbia).

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