This section's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. The second and third episodes of the series are original stories, written exclusively for television. Filming for the second series commenced in October 2012. The first episode was revealed to be an adaptation of Atkinson's 2010 novel Started Early, Took My Dog. Initially commissioned as two feature-length episodes, in September 2012, the BBC reported that the format of series two would be different, encompassing three self- contained stories, at a running time of ninety minutes per episode. The first series premiered on 5 June 2011, on BBC1 in the United Kingdom, and in October 2011 on PBS in the United States. Initially each episode was aired in two 60 minute sections. The series is both set and filmed in Edinburgh. It stars Jason Isaacs, who has also narrated the abridged audiobook adaptation, as protagonist Jackson Brodie.
Next time - if there is one - I'll hold on tighter.Case Histories is a British crime drama television series based on the Jackson Brodie novel series by Kate Atkinson.
Wildly and justifiably popular and engaging ones. Her satirist's eye, the minute observations that reveal everything about a person through the most innocuous gesture or phrase, the mischievous and audacious use of coincidence, the telescoping of time and experience can obviously work even in the literal, linear 2D world of television.īut let's not fool ourselves: she's a writer. It seems from the responses to the series that, at the very least, we've driven even more people to discover her effortless (sorry Kate - seemingly effortless) prose.
Maybe great stories are great stories in any medium, if you just get out of the way. I decided to have faith in the invisible tendrils of intrigue, horror and hope that Kate's writing wraps around the hearts and minds of her fans. In the end it was that: the prospect of someone else, some other lucky bastard, trudging the streets in Jackson's battered shoes that did it. Add to all that literary, emotional and anthropological excellence the fact that, in Jackson, she had created a Mr Rochester for the modern age, a post-modern, romantic fantasy figure of a man that countless hordes of women all over the world quasi-worship, and it's easy to imagine why I flirted with dodging the bullet and watching someone else be the focus of the inevitable disappointment. "Having narrated the audio-books of all the Jackson Brodie novels and being, as a consequence, dazzled not only by Kate's sensational abilities to weave a story but, wittily and economically, to convey character flaws, strengths, sub and un-conscious desires and drives and more, to create a hypnotic world full of damaged, struggling and beautifully etched characters, it was with utter terror that I faced the prospect of putting one of them on the screen.
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