Ooh: The BBC is doing a version of SS-GB.

It’s apparently going to be a five-part series.  For those who aren’t familiar, SS-GB is an alternate history novel by British spy novel great Len Deighton: as you might have gleaned from the title, it’s a police/spy novel set in a world where the Germans won the Battle of Britain and are now occupying the United Kingdom. I read it a while back, and I can say that it’s certainly adaptable for the television screen.  And a miniseries would probably do it more justice than a movie, at that.

Dunno when it’s coming out, but if they’re still filming it it won’t be next week.

2 thoughts on “Ooh: The BBC is doing a version of SS-GB.”

    1. Kind of. They’re two different books, in different genres; I don’t want to say one is better than the other, because they were trying to do two different things. But they’re both required reading for this particular subset of alternate history.

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