"Russell had been given the book by his son as a father's day present and he re-read it and thought 'it's really good isn't it' and what he loved about it was, it's not about whodunnit, they aren't normal crime procedurals, they are thrillers and Russell discusses them as rollercoaster rides. He continued: "The one name that kept coming up was Russell Lewis and I was told I would never get him because he's too busy, he does Endeavour and has got a lot on his plate. "When Peter came to me and asked if I wanted to be a part of developing it I was obviously thrilled and honoured and humbled by it and then it was really who is the writer?" I guess you have to take it from the standpoint that nobody knows the novels and knows what is going to happen and it's a separate entity but at the same time, being as true as we can be to Peter's novels."Įxecutive producer Andrew O'Connor added: "The foundations of this show are obviously Peter James and Russell Lewis and Peter's books are amazing and the big challenge was finding someone who could adapt them and take what Peter James said on the page and turn it into a TV show and the last 10, maybe 15 years, people have tried and no one really got it right. "I can't really be worrying whether people that are into the novels won't like it. "A novel is not a TV show and a TV show is not a novel so while we are trying to be absolutely true to the source material, its a TV show and so fans of the novel, some of them will be up in arms because it won't be the characters they had in their head but there is nothing we as actors can do about that apart from serve the script and what is in front of us. He said: "It's a delicate balancing act because they are two different things. John Simms who plays Roy Grace in the series described the adaption as a "delicate balancing act." Each instalment is two hours long and fans are hoping the recent adaption will do the books justice.Īs expected, some intricate details from the books and potentially some side plots will be missing from the series due to time constraints but in a recent interview with .uk and other press, the show's executive producers and cast could not be happier with ITV adaption.
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