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The Durrells (known in North America as The Durrells in Corfu) is a British comedy-drama television series loosely based on Gerald Durrell's three autobiographical books about his family's four years (1935–1939) on the Greek island of Corfu. [1] It aired on ITV from 3 April 2016 to 12 May 2019. [2]
Following Lawrence Samuel Durrell's death in 1928, Louisa Durrell and her three surviving younger children moved to the United Kingdom, where Lawrence had already been sent to be educated. In 1935, the Durrells moved to the Greek island of Corfu. They remained there until the summer of 1939, when the impending outbreak of World War II forced ...
Gerald Malcolm Durrell (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter.He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928.
Gerald Durrell's trilogy has been adapted several times for British TV and radio series. Louisa was portrayed by Hannah Gordon in the 1987 BBC TV series My Family and Other Animals, by Imelda Staunton in the 2005 BBC adaptation, by Celia Imrie in the 2010 two-part BBC Radio drama, and by Keeley Hawes in the 2016–2019 ITV drama The Durrells.
Amateurs in Eden: The Story of a Bohemian Marriage: Nancy and Lawrence Durrell, Joanna Hodgkin (2012) The Durrells of Corfu, Michael Haag (2017) Dining with the Durrells: Stories and Recipes from the Cookery Archive of Mrs Louisa Durrell, David Shimwell (2019)
On 3 April 2016 ITV began running the six-part series The Durrells, also adapted by Simon Nye. Loosely based on the Corfu trilogy, it stars Keeley Hawes [6] as Louisa Durrell and Milo Parker as Gerald Durrell. Three subsequent series of The Durrells were broadcast, in 2017, 2018, and 2019. The first series is set in 1935, the second in 1936 ...
My Family and Other Animals is a 2005 television film written by Simon Nye and directed by Sheree Folkson. [1] The film is based on the 1956 autobiographical book of the same title written by Gerald Durrell, in which he describes a series of anecdotes relating to his family's stay on Corfu from 1935–1939, when he was aged 10–14.
Lawrence George Durrell CBE (/ ˈ d ʊr əl, ˈ d ʌr-/; [1] 27 February 1912 [2] – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.