QUIRKE Premieres in the UK–Finally!

May 24 Update: BBC One The videos and clips included in this BBC One website for Quirke will not work for you if you are not in the UK, but the text articles are, of course, available. Here’s a bit about Quirke himself: Quirke is a loner and he’s often […]

QUIRKE Preview Audio and Transcription Updated July 5

July 5 Here  is a very rough transcription of the Quirke Preview Screening and Panel held at BFI Southbank in London on June 20. The sound is below par and the microphone was not where it needed to be sometimes to pick up certain voices. Sorry. “…” means one or […]

Preview of QUIRKE at BFI Southbank

UPDATED June 21 Lots of lucky Londoners attended the preview of the first episode of Quirke at the BFI Southbank venue last night. And apparently they all had a great time and were very impressed with the show. Tweeters shared pics and also their reactions: Ian Wylie @ianwylie Gabriel Byrne perfectly […]

The “Quirke” stories of Benjamin Black

While discussing the lack of humor in the latest television version of Great Expectations, Andrew Davies, renowned screenwriter and adapter (Bleak House and House of Cards for television, among many others) dropped a Byrne bomb! Davies’s latest job for the BBC is set during a very different period. He is […]