EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has bought Viaplay‘s Rebus reboot, following international streamer Viaplay’s decision to exit the UK. In further news, we can reveal Australia’s SBS has also acquired the show from distributor Viaplay Content Distribution.
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has bought Viaplay‘s Rebus reboot, following international streamer Viaplay’s decision to exit the UK. In further news, we can reveal Australia’s SBS has also acquired the show from distributor Viaplay Content Distribution.
Crime writer Sir Ian Rankin said it was “absolutely thrilling” to be honoured with a knighthood at Buckingham Palace. Sir Ian, creator of Detective Inspector John Rebus and winner of several national and international awards, was knighted for services to literature and charity on Tuesday.
Richard Rankin has praised his Rebus cast mates, dubbing them 'incredible company' as the Scot gets underway with filming season one of the show.
K.J. Yossman Viaplay’s first U.K. drama commission, “Rebus,” has gone into production in Scotland. The show has also added some new cast members including “Line of Duty’s” Lucie Shorthouse, Brian Ferguson (“The Ipcress File”) and Stuart Bowman (“The Serpent”). They will join Richard Rankin (“Outlander”) as John Rebus, the much-loved character John Rebus from Ian Rankin’s bestselling novels. “Rebus” tells the story of a Scottish police detective who “finds himself at a psychological crossroads,” according to the logline. “At odds with a job increasingly driven by corporate technocrats, involved in a toxic affair he knows he needs to end, and all but supplanted in his daughter’s life by his ex-wife’s wealthy new husband, Rebus begins to wonder if he still has a role to play – either as a family man or a police officer. In a world of divisive politics and national discord, does the law still have meaning, or is everyone reverting to an older set of rules? And if so, why shouldn’t Rebus do so too?”
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Richard Rankin has been cast in the lead role in the new on-screen adaptation of Sir Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels.
Viaplay has found its Inspector Rebus and author Sir Ian Rankin is keeping it in the name.
EXCLUSIVE: Edvard Munch, painter of the iconic The Scream, is to have his life portrayed in a Norwegian feature film from Viaplay.
EXCLUSIVE: Felix Herngren, director and writer of Oscar-nominated The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, is directing a Viaplay adaptation of Emelie Schepp’s novel Jana – Marked for Life, with Erik Barmack exec producing amongst others.
Sir Ian Rankin’s Rebus detective novels are to be reimagined for Nordic streamer Viaplay, the group’s debut UK drama commission and the first Rebus TV adaptation for nearly 15 years.
British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful, crime novelist Ian Rankin and legendary actress Sheila Hancock are some of the first big names announced to be taking part in this year’s Manchester Literature Festival.
With Jubilee celebrations about to kick off in the UK, the Queen’s Birthday Honours List has been released for 2022. Included among recipients are such arts and entertainment figures as actor Damian Lewis, author Salman Rushdie, All3Media CEO Jane Turton, Wales-born singer Bonnie Tyler and designer Stella McCartney.
Naman Ramachandran “Billions” actor Damian Lewis, actor-director Rapman (“Blue Story”), writer Salman Rushdie (“Midnight’s Children”) and All3Media CEO Jane Turton are among those in the arts and entertainment field recognized in the annual Queen’s birthday honors.Lewis has been recognized as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to drama and charity. Also accorded a CBE is filmmaker Isaac Julien, Berlin winner for “Derek.”Rushdie has been accorded the Member of the Order of the Companions of Honor accolade for services to literature alongside illustrator and writer Quentin Blake (“Jackanory”), for services to illustration.Director Andrew Onwubolu, also known as Rapman, has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his services to drama and music.
Game of Thrones actor John Stahl has died, aged 68.The Scottish actor played the role of Richard Karstark in two seasons of the show and was also well known for playing Inverdarroch in long-running soap opera Take The High Road. He died on the Isle of Lewis on March 2; a cause of death is yet to be disclosed.Stahl’s death was confirmed by his agent who described him as “an actor of remarkable skill and a stalwart of Scottish theatre”.The full statement read: “We are very sad to announce the death of John Stahl. John was an actor of remarkable skill and a stalwart of Scottish theatre, where he appeared in numerous productions as well as at The Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Theatre.“He was well known for playing Inveradarroch in Take the High Road from 1982 – 2003 and for the role of Rickard Karstark in two series of Game of Thrones. He died on the Isle of Lewis on March 2 2022 and is survived by his wife, Jane Paton.”An additional statement on Twitter read: “We’re deeply saddened to report the death of our beloved friend and client, John Stahl. He was an actor of the most remarkable skill, with a decades-long career gracing our screens and stages. We will miss him terribly.”We’re deeply saddened to report the death of our beloved friend and client, John Stahl.
Murder Island aired its first episode on Tuesday night as eight members of the public attempted to solve a fictional murder case, created by Ian Rankin, in a bid to win a £50,000 reward. During the opening instalment, show watchers and contestants discovered that a woman, Charly Hendricks, had been killed while they were given instructions to follow by top murder detectives.
detective Rebus to the stage after completing a script during lockdown. And the author said Hollywood star Brian Cox would be ideal to play his Edinburgh crimebuster.
banned from writing sex scenes involving his famous detective Rebus.The author revealed he had penned a passage involving the Edinburgh police officer in bed with a woman in one of his early novels.However, his editor insisted the scene was removed as he didn’t think it would go down well with readers.Fife-born Rankin was told to avoid any graphic descriptions of sex in his books and leave it to the reader’s imagination.He said: “There is not much romance in my books.“In the third novel, when I
Ian Rankin has received his first dose of the coronavirus jab and has told fans that it was ‘absolutely fine’. The Scots crime author, who is 60-years-old, nipped over to the mass-vaccination site at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre yesterday.
Ian Rankin has told how he has been unable to hug his disabled son for almost a year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The author’s son Kit, who has a genetic condition called Angelman syndrome, has been living at a care facility where he is well looked after by staff.
gateway drug” for reading.Rankin, 60, whose Rebus novels are bestsellers, grew up in a house with barely any books but used to read The Beano and The Dandy.He described comics as “affordable literacy for kids” and said writing was like “playing with his imaginary friends” but joked that if he’d achieved success in his 20s it would have been baths filled with champagne and gold-plated pinball machines.Rankin said: “Comics were a few pennies and for a few pennies you’d be reading a story that
Ian Rankin has slammed lockdown louts for laying waste to a public park outside his plush Edinburgh home.
In the final part of our exclusive serialisation of Ian Rankin’s Being Frank short story, we discover the truth behind a homeless man’s wild conspiracy theroy and the mystery callers to John Rebus' Edinburgh flat. Playing catch up? Find part 1 here and part 2 here. These were the two men Shuffling Frank had been talking about! Of course they were, only Frank had misheard: council of war was Councillor Waugh; Rhodes was roads.
He's sold more than 20 million books worldwide and is the UK's biggest crime writer.Now, in the first of an exclusive three-part serialisation, Ian Rankin shares his gripping short story, Being Frank, featuring his famous detective, John Rebus.His novel, Westwind, is out in paperback on Thursday, June 11, 2020. It wasn't easy, being Frank. That’s what everybody called him, when they weren’t calling him a dirty old tramp or a scrounger or a layabout.
Ian Rankin has told how he regrets not buying a pub after being unable to go to his favourite boozer.
Scots crime author Ian Rankin has spent his birthday enjoying a pint at an Edinburgh pub despite lockdown.
More A-list celebrities have been added to the star-studded For the Love of Scotland fundraiser on Wednesday.
James McAvoy and KT Tunstall are among a host of Scottish stars teaming up for a night of music, literature, and poetry to raise funds to provide masks to Scottish healthcare workers.
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