Blogging prostitute TV show

January 24, 2005 12:14 PM

British TV Channel 4 is to dramatize Belle De Jour. The - possibly fake - blog of a London prostitute has already been adapted into a book. I say bring on 'Rebecca's Pocket the movie' and 'Doc Searls the musical'.
posted by liam (14 comments total)

The original Belle De Jour.
posted by Specklet at 12:34 PM on January 24, 2005 [1 favorite]

I say bring on 'Rebecca's Pocket the movie' and 'Doc Searls the musical'.

Seconded.
posted by nofundy at 12:37 PM on January 24, 2005

possibly fake?

i thought it was definitely fake

me, im waiting for the Oliver Willis swimsuit calendar
posted by tsarfan at 12:47 PM on January 24, 2005 [1 favorite]

Anybody who's seen/listened to Einstein on the Beach has already experienced Metafilter the Opera.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 12:55 PM on January 24, 2005

coverage over at Book Club (scroll past the bit about Norwegian Wood).
posted by shoepal at 1:09 PM on January 24, 2005

I am waiting for Kottke the Broadway Spectacular!
posted by SisterHavana at 1:14 PM on January 24, 2005

I would go see Slashdot On Ice.
posted by Heatwole at 1:16 PM on January 24, 2005

It would be an appropriate comment on our cultural times if the first blog (AFAIK) to be made into a TV show turned out to be fictional. To paraphrase Jean Giraudoux, the secret of success is reality; if you can fake that, you've got it made. Well, reality and lots of sex, I guess.
posted by liam at 1:33 PM on January 24, 2005

Oh fuck, can someone say "jump the shark."

Please.
posted by gsb at 3:18 PM on January 24, 2005

"The usual story: impoverished graduate in depressing London bedsit seeks career with integrity or, failing that, a fat pay-cheque."

In which our plucky young heroine invokes Occam's razor with regards to the authenticity of her anonymously-penned working life.
posted by furious blush at 6:22 PM on January 24, 2005

Andrew Lloyd Webber shows his pudgy fiz around the 'bottle, I'm cappin' the motherfucker.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:35 AM on January 25, 2005

If I were rich, I'd hire Terry Colon to produce a Suck television cartoon. Just for me.

I think Eurotrash has the skinny on Belle Du Jour.
posted by octobersurprise at 7:34 AM on January 25, 2005 [1 favorite]

I'd thought that it was Rowan Pelling who is, IMHO, the most sexy woman in the UK.

Incidently, Champion denied it didn't she?
posted by dmt at 5:44 AM on January 31, 2005

Wow, more shit I don't care about. Where's MY fucking movie deal?
posted by nanojath at 8:27 PM on February 23, 2005