Hulu Boards Sally Rooney’s ‘Conversations with Friends’, Teams With BBC On Adaptation From ‘Normal People’ Author

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed British actress Daisy Edgar-Jones in all areas.Edgar-Jones has been getting attention for her breakout role as the female lead of Hulu/BBC’s buzzy new drama series Normal People.Based on Sally Rooney’s best-seller, Normal People follows the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne and Connell (Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal) from the end of their school days in small town west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity

Some of Ireland's biggest names and rising stars will come together later this month for a special one-off televised concert.

Fans of Normal People and Fleabag — of which there are more than a few around the world — were offered something of an unexpected treat late last month. A second season of Normal People — arguably the most talked about TV drama of 2020 so far — may not yet be much more than a twinkle in a Hulu commissioner’s (or, more probably, writer Sally Rooney’s) eye, while Phoebe Waller-Bridge has repeatedly confirmed that her smash-hit comedy won’t be returning.

Normal People is the frontrunner at this year’s TV Choice Awards, where it is up for three prizes.

Ryan Andrews and Michaela O’Neill’s shared love for acting led to their paths crossing over a decade and a half ago when they met through the Olympia panto.Oh no, it didn’t!Oh yes, it did!The Dancing with the Stars finalist now runs an acting school with his childhood sweetheart and recounting the sweet story of how they came to be together, Ryan remembered coming into each other’s lives treading the boards of the famous Dublin theatre.‘We met when we were 10 and 11 years of age.

BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel Normal People, chronicling the romantic lives of Connell Waldron and Marianne Sheridan as they fall in and out of love over several years, is a major hit.The 12-episode series dropped as a boxset on BBC Three on April 26, 2020, with regular Monday night broadcasts on BBC One stoking the hype for a little longer.

Normal People star Paul Mescal has taken part in Florence + The Machine‘s new book club – hear him read a passage from the Sally Rooney novel below.Mescal plays Connell Waldron in the recent BBC adaptation of the book, which gave BBC Three its biggest iPlayer viewing figures ever upon its release.As part of Florence Welch’s Between Two Books book club, Mescal has read an iconic passage from the 2018 book, the scene where Connell and Marianne reconnect at a house party at Dublin’s Trinity College

Between Two Books.The Kildare native read the passage where Connell meets Marianne in college for the first time. And it’s honestly made our week!‘”Alright,” says Connell, “hi.” Instantly, unbelievably, Marianne’s face breaks into a gigantic smile, exposing her crooked front teeth,’ Paul reads of their encounter in the three minutes and 48 seconds of perfection.

Paul Mescal is the perfect narrator for Sally Rooney’s Normal People.

, will be lead writer for the adaptation.Conversation With Friends will be produced by Element Pictures.But, what is Conversations with Friends all about?Like Normal People, the book is about two best friends, Frances and Bobbi, who navigate life and love, neither of which are ever black and white.The story follows the two Trinity college students as they embark on an unexpected and sexually charged relationship with an older married couple.Expect love triangles galore and plenty of drama, but

After the apparent success of Hulu’s recent drama series, “Normal People,” based on the best-selling novel by Sally Rooney, it appears the streaming service is ready to move ahead with yet another adaptation of the author’s work with the development of a new show titled “Conversations with Friends.” According to Hulu, the streaming service has begun work on developing “Conversations with Friends” with the same production team, Element Pictures, behind the aforementioned “Normal People.” And just

Hulu is looking to replicate the success of “Normal People” by adapting another of Sally Rooney’s novels as a TV series.