Sky Orders Nick Hornby Adaptation ‘Funny Girl’, Gemma Arterton To Star
Sky has ordered Funny Girl, a comedy drama series adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel of the same name. Gemma Arterton (Their Finest, Black Narcissus) is attached to star in the lead role. 
Potboiler Television has optioned the rights to Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker Prize winning novel Girl, Woman, Other. The deal was struck with Lesley Thorne at Aitken Alexander on behalf of Bernardine Evaristo’s agent Emma Paterson.