Sean Bean (Lord of the Rings) has been added to the cast in a new series of TV crime thrillers to be shown on Channel 4 in the UK. The three-part series is an adaptation of David Peace's trilogy of novels set in Yorkshire.
HBO is going to adapt two thrillers by author James Ellroy (American Tabloid and its sequel American Death Trap) into a television mini-series by the same team that created the recent multiple-Emmy winner John Adams.
CBS Paramount Network TV has optioned Hounding the Pavement, first in a series of mystery novels by Judi McCoy (it's the first volume in a three-book deal, although McCoy says she has a dozen planned).
NPR's Maureen Corrigan reviewed The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo By Stieg Larsson, calling it "a super-smart amalgam of the corporate corruption tale, legal thriller and dysfunctional-family psychological suspense story." You can read more and listen here.
Dennis Lehane was interviewed on NBC's Today Show about his latest novel The Given Day.
Going on right now through September 28 is the TCM Crime Scene Festival in the UK, with showings of thrillers, peeks at TV crime dramas, and a celebration of John Creasey, among other offerings.
CBS rolled to victory on Wednesday’s opening of the season thanks to its returning crime dramas, Criminal Minds and CSI: New York, even as its newer shows didn't fare so well.
Helen Mirren (best known to mystery fans as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect) has been hired to play a Mossad agent in John Madden's The Debt, an English-language remake of an Israeli thriller about three Israeli Mossad agents tracking down a Nazi war criminal over 30 years.
And Simon & Schuster is following the path of HarperCollins by creating an in-house digital production studio to create multimedia content about their authors and books. They expect to produce and post more than 600 pieces of multimedia content annually.
