Starting 8th January 2008 on Channel Five is this new factual series, How Do They Do It?, which puts the modern world under the microscope in order to understand the extraordinary engines, machines and structures that form the backbone of 21st-century living. As the world becomes progressively more automated and mechanised, people grow further removed from the way things are made and how things are done. To rectify this, comedian and presenter Robert Llewellyn (‘Red Dwarf’, ‘Scrapheap Challenge’) get his hands dirty in a quest to understand modern technology.
Heather Ogilvie (Galvanized Film Group) has acquired the option to produce a feature film based on Tracy Chevalier’s novel Remarkable Creatures and will partner with Icon Film Distribution to bring it to the big screen. Academy Award nominee Jan Sardi (Shine, Mao’s Last Dancer, The Notebook) will adapt the book, which was published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2009. Tracy Chevalier is the author of five previous novels, including the international bestseller Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Virgin Blue, Falling Angels, The Lady and the Unicorn and Burning Bright. ‘I’m thrilled Tracy has entrusted to us the exciting task of adapting her wonderful novel for the screen,’ Heather said. ‘Icon Films have endorsed our conviction that this book will result in an outstanding movie by partnering with us to accelerate its development. Jan Sardi is a gifted, sensitive scriptwriter, and we’re confident he’ll deliver a script that more than lives up to our expectations.’ Tracy comments, ‘I think a