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Amanda Coe has plenty of experience adapting big novels into TV series, winning a BAFTA for the 2012 drama Room at the Top and also penning her version of Apple Tree Yard. In the latest from the creator and writer of The Trial of Christine Keeler she took on Black Narcissus, an adaptation of Rumer Godden’s steamy 1939 novel, which Coe turned into a three-part limited series for FX and the BBC.

Black Narcissus has received a mixed response from viewers after airing its first episode in the UK. Adapted from Rumer Godden's 1939 novel of the same name by Apple Tree Yard and The Trial of Christine Keeler writer Amanda Coe, the three-part miniseries offers a new take on the story, having previously been adapted into the 1947 film starring Deborah Kerr.

Black Narcissus has released its first trailer, and the new BBC/FX drama promises everything from "paradise" and "perversion" to "sanctuary" and "sin".Apple Tree Yard and The Trial of Christine Keeler writer Amanda Coe is behind the TV adaptation, which has been adapted from Rumer Godden's 1939 novel of the same name.

Remember “Black Narcissus,” the 1947 British psychological drama film written, produced, and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and starring Deborah Kerr? Well, you may have forgotten, but FX announced a year ago that they were making a three-episode limited series based on the same material from writer Amanda Coe (“Shameless,” “The Trial of Christine Keeler”) and directed by Danish cinematographer turned director Charlotte Bruus Christensen (known for shooting “The Hunt,” “Far

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerBlack Narcissus, a three-episode limited series from writer Amanda Coe and directed by Charlotte Bruus Christensen, will premiere all three episodes on FX Monday, November 23 beginning at 8 PM ET/PT, with the full series also available the following day on FX on Hulu.Black Narcissus is based on the best-selling novel by Rumer Godden.

The star of a new drama about the Profumo affair says she leapt at the chance to tell the story from Christine Keeler’s perspective, in the wake of the Me Too movement. Sophie Cookson believes writer Amanda Coe has finally given a voice to Keeler, who was just 19 at the time of the scandal and became “trapped by society’s restraints”.