Jerusalem: The Biography gets the TV series treatment

Jerusalem: The Biography gets the TV series treatment May 7, 2017

jerusalemthebiographyVarious sites are reporting that Lionsgate TV in the UK is developing a TV series adaptation of Simon Sebag Montefiore’s bestseller Jerusalem: The Biography. The book covers the history of Jerusalem over a period of about three thousand years — from King David, who made the city his capital circa 1000 BC, to the Six-Day War in AD 1967 — and Lionsgate creative chief Steve November says the series will run for “multiple seasons.” Does this mean we’ll get at least one season’s worth of essentially biblical content? The book is about 500 pages long — not counting the endnotes and all the other stuff that comes after the final chapter — and over 100 of those pages span the biblical period, from David to Jesus and the destruction of Jerusalem a few decades later. So, maybe? We have, of course, seen other TV series about David and Jesus recently, from last year’s Of Kings & Prophets to A.D. The Bible Continues the year before. Sebag Montefiore’s book was previously turned into a three-part BBC documentary that he hosted in 2011.


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