See-Saw Films<\/a>, the British banner known for \u201cSlow Horses\u201d and \u201cHeartstopper,\u201d has acquired rights to adapt John Grant\u2019s original detective novels (written under the pen name Jonathan Gash). <\/p>\n\n\tPlans are now underway for a contemporary reimagining of the series, which saw McShane play the eponymous roguish and fourth wall-breaking antiques dealer, a likeable anti-hero with a knack for recognizing genuine antiques from fakes or forgeries. <\/p>\n
\n\tChris Jury, Dudley Sutton, Phyllis Logan and Malcolm Tierney also starred. The original show ran for 71 episodes over six series.<\/p>\n
\n\tExecutive producers for See-Saw include Lisa Gilchrist, Helen Gregory, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Simon Gillis. Joining them will be Grant and his agent Lisa Moylett.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThe deal was negotiated by Simon Gillis and Laura Mazzola, head of Business and Legal Affairs (UK), on behalf of See-Saw and Sheila David of Catapult Rights Limited on behalf of Dr Grant.<\/p>\n
\n\tOther TV productions for See-Saw include Sky\/Starsz hit \u201cSweetpea,\u201d and the upcoming Australian legal drama \u201cThe Great White.\u201d On the film side, upcoming titles include Apple TV\u2019s \u201cTenzing,\u201d the upcoming Tenzing Norgay biopic starring Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe, while it is in development on a new film series based on beloved children\u2019s novel \u201cThe Neverending Story\u201d book. Last year, it was revealed that it was working on a biopic of Sinead O\u2019Connor. <\/p>\n
\n\tVariety\u2018s sister publication Deadline was the first to report on the \u201cLovejoy\u201d news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLovejoy\u201d the hit BBC comedy-drama mystery series that ran from 1986 to 1994 and starred Ian McShane, is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,164856,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-458639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-see-saw-films","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}