Articles about Oble
Getting their Grove on
After a decade in development, a TV adaptation of Minna Lindgren’s detective novels is set to arrive on Finnish streamer Elisa Viihde. Sunset Grove director Taru Mäkelä, writer Johanna Hartikainen and star Leena Uotila discuss this comedy murder-mystery set in a retirement home.
Peste control
After Albert Camus’ seminal 1947 novel La Peste (The Plague) topped reading charts during the pandemic, writer George-Marc Benamou and director Antoine Garceau reveal why they wanted to adapt it for television and how they have updated the story for modern audiences.
Hot stuff
Swiss graphic novel Les Indociles (The Firebrands) is translated for television in a five-part drama about a group of friends in the midst of a new drug culture in the 1970s and 80s. Director Delphine Lehericey and stars Maya Sansa and Thibaut Evrard explain why the script had the cast in tears and how the focus of the story had to change for TV.