Bill Bryson bestseller A Short History of Nearly Everything is being reimagined as an animated TV series by former The Simpsons showrunner Josh Weinstein and Paddington scribe Jason Hazeley, with Richard Ayoade narrating.
Altitude and Brouhaha Entertainment are forging the series version of a book that has sold 15 million copies worldwide and been translated into 50 languages, with a view to turning it into a long-running entertainment franchise.
Published two decades ago, the book sees celebrated writer Bryson take on popular science by tackling issues such as the size of the universe and the development of the human race, and setting them out in layman’s terms. A large part of the book is devoted to relating humorous stories about the scientists behind the research and their sometimes eccentric behaviours. Narrated by Ayoade, the animation will tell these stories spanning centuries and continents, time and space, and the abstract and the real,...
Altitude and Brouhaha Entertainment are forging the series version of a book that has sold 15 million copies worldwide and been translated into 50 languages, with a view to turning it into a long-running entertainment franchise.
Published two decades ago, the book sees celebrated writer Bryson take on popular science by tackling issues such as the size of the universe and the development of the human race, and setting them out in layman’s terms. A large part of the book is devoted to relating humorous stories about the scientists behind the research and their sometimes eccentric behaviours. Narrated by Ayoade, the animation will tell these stories spanning centuries and continents, time and space, and the abstract and the real,...
- 2/12/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The then-Museum of Photography, Film & Television inspired Si Cunningham to a career in journalism. He says its closure would wave a white flag for the promotion of creativity in the North
Not much in the way of knocks manages to shock your everyday Bradfordian. Another high street store is quitting the city? No surprise. We're losing another HQ to Leeds, you say? That figures. Channel 4 are making an original documentary about how grim life is in t'North? Big deal.
But last week's news that our much-loved National Media Museum is facing the very real threat of closure was a genuine punch in the guts for us all, and even calls into question our status as the world's first 'City of Film.'
Like many people who grew up in Bradford, one of my earliest and happiest of memories was being taken on a school trip to the National Museum of Photography,...
Not much in the way of knocks manages to shock your everyday Bradfordian. Another high street store is quitting the city? No surprise. We're losing another HQ to Leeds, you say? That figures. Channel 4 are making an original documentary about how grim life is in t'North? Big deal.
But last week's news that our much-loved National Media Museum is facing the very real threat of closure was a genuine punch in the guts for us all, and even calls into question our status as the world's first 'City of Film.'
Like many people who grew up in Bradford, one of my earliest and happiest of memories was being taken on a school trip to the National Museum of Photography,...
- 6/10/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
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