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From: Nyssa <Nyssa@logicalinsight.net>
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Subject: Re: TV news for April 23-28, 2025
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:52:06 -0400
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Robin Miller wrote:

> Nyssa wrote:
>> Robin Miller wrote:
>>=20
>>>
>>> =E2=80=9CBerlin Noir=E2=80=9D: Apple Lands Next Big TV Adaptation W=
ith
>>> Bernie Gunther
>>> Prequel Series From =E2=80=98Conclave=E2=80=99 Writer Peter Straugh=
an
>>> (April 24)
>>>
>>> https://deadline.com/2025/04/apple-tv-plus-bernie-gunther-prequel-p=
eter-straughan-tom-hanks-1236373663/
>>>
>>> ["Apple TV+ has greenlit a long-gestating TV adaptation
>>> [of the late
>>> Philip Kerr=E2=80=99s popular Berlin Noir books from
>>> Oscar-winning Conclave writer Peter Straughan ... The
>>> untitled drama is based on Kerr=E2=80=99s final book Metropolis,
>>> which told the iconic detective=E2=80=99s origin story. Set in
>>> 1928, Metropolis follows newly promoted police officer
>>> Gunther in the intimidating elite Berlin Murder Squad,
>>> investigating what seems to be a serial killer targeting
>>> victims on the fringes of society. Gunther=E2=80=99s Berlin is
>>> described as a 'city of unprecedented freedom and
>>> dizzying turbulence, the Nazis a distant nightmare
>>> waiting in the wings.'=E2=80=9D]
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>=20
>> Ooooooo I hope that a) this series is produced, b) that
>> they don't screw it up, and c) it's shown someplace that
>> I can actually *see* it (or can buy it on DVD).
>>=20
>> The books were excellent! The only thing that bummed me
>> out about them is that Philip Kerr died before a book
>> that gave Bernie a proper ending (living happily ever
>> after or not).
>>=20
>> I highly recommend the books to anyone interested in the
>> history of that era and/or very good mysteries.
>>=20
>> Nyssa, who hasn't been this excited about a possible TV
>> show or movie in a looooong time
>>=20
>=20
>=20
> Cool!
>=20
> Robin, who hasn't seen anyone so excited about a news
> write-up in a
> looooong time.  :-)

:)

I *really* liked the Bernie book series!

I used to talk about the books with my neighbor (who is German)=20
and made her laugh with all of the old slang that Kerr included
in the stories. Some of it she didn't know, and others she
remembered her father saying when she was a young'un.

The details about the history and Berlin (as well as other
cities and countries Bernie hid out in) was like catnip to
me and the mysteries themselves were well-plotted.

I'm hoping Volker Kutscher's Inspector Gereon Rath seroes set
around the same timeline are anywhere near as good. I'm waiting
to start those until I can collect the entire series and
binge them as time permits.

Thanks Robin! Your news clip made my morning!

Nyssa, who is more excited about this news than she is
about how the Stanley Cup plaoffs are going (her team is
probably going to be eliminated on Wednesday night)