Film and TV Adaptations
Both What a Carve Up! (1994) and The Rotters' Club (2001) have been adapted as drama serials for BBC Radio 4. What a Carve Up! was adapted by David Nobbs. The Rotters' Club was adapted for television by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and broadcast on BBC Two in January-February 2005. The Dwarves of Death (1990) was filmed as Five Seconds to Spare in 1999, for which Coe himself co-wrote the screenplay.
Jeremy Dyson, author of The League of Gentlemen, was reported to be adapting What a Carve Up! for Channel 4. This TV project was in development with Big Talk (Black Books, Free Agents) but has yet to be formally commissioned.
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