Re: OT: Did anyone see Horatio Hornblower on A&E last night?
From: "Steve Pugh" <steve@w...>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 16:17:54 +0100
Subject: Re: OT: Did anyone see Horatio Hornblower on A&E last night?
> They're only doing four books (my guess is there are financial
> considerations here), so my guess is that instead of picking four
> consecutive books, they picked four that span the life of Hornblowers
> career. Makes perfect sense...
Well, the four episodes that I've seen don't cover much of a span of
his life... He starts as a Midshipman and ends up as a Lieutenant.
And as Nathan posted, all four episodes are based on _one_ book.
There will be another series according to the announcer after the
fourth episode. Financial considerations will keep them turning out
only a few episodes a year, but if they perform well enough they'll
keep on coming back year after year....
Making all four episodes in a season out of one book seems to be a
cunning move: they won't run out books in a hurry like Sharpe (or
Morse, etc.) did.
Steve
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