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Miss Marple Anime / Manga In UK Date: 3/16/2005 |
C12 Media reports Agatha Christie's silver-haired, handbag-wielding sleuth Miss Marple is set for an unlikely new lease of life in Japanese manga comics, as rights holder Chorion eyes expansion plans following a 35% hike in profits. The veteran detective's return to television screens in the UK last year was highlighted today as one of the factors behind the rise in Chorion's pre-tax profits from ?3.2m in 2003 to ?4.3m in 2004. The programme, coproduced by Chorion, Granada and US station PBS, has brought the Agatha Christie character to a new generation, with four two-hour dramas on ITV1 last autumn averaging a 33% audience share on Sunday evenings. |
Source: Anime News Service |