About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Wallander, Waterloo Road, Still Game, Live & Kicking, Rab C. Nesbitt, Monarch of the Glen, Hedz, Shoebox Zoo, Hope Springs, Life of Riley, Jet Set, Chewin' the Fat, Hole in the Wall, Lip Service, In It to Win It, Hamish Macbeth, Comedy Connections, River City, Reporting Scotland, Sea of Souls, 50/50, VideoGaiden, Fully Booked, Sportscene, A Question of Genius, Tutti Frutti, The Omega Factor, That Was The Team That Was, The Scheme, Limmy's Show, Hogmanay Live, Only an Excuse?, Scotch and Wry, Happy Hollidays, Dear Green Place, Tinsel Town, Single Father, Newsnight Scotland, Naked Video, List of River City characters, Takin' Over the Asylum, City Lights, The Crow Road, Landward, Atletico Partick, Live Floor Show, The Beechgrove Garden, The Karen Dunbar Show, Sport Nation, Movie Connections, Offside, The Adventure Show, Drama Connections, BBC Scotland Investigates, The Mad Death, Sutherland's Law, Agenda, Public Opinion, The Standard, Looking After Jo Jo. Excerpt: Wallander is a British television series adapted from the Swedish novelist Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Kenneth Branagh as the eponymous police inspector. The first three-episode series, produced by Yellow Bird, Left Bank Pictures and TKBC for BBC Scotland, were broadcast on BBC One from November to December 2008. It is the first time the Wallander novels have been adapted into an English-language production. Yellow Bird, formed by Mankell, began negotiations with British companies to produce the adaptations in 2006. In 2007, Branagh met with Mankell personally to discuss playing the role. Contracts were signed and work began on the films, adapted from Sidetracked, Firewall and One Step Behind, in January 2008. Emmy-award-winning director Philip Martin was hired as lead director. Martin worked with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle to...
