Malory Towers adaptation brought forward

[happilybemused]

Finally some good news

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/mar/20/downton-for-kids-bbc-brings-forward-malory-towers-adaptation?CMP=fbgu&utmmmedium=Social&utmsource=Facebook#Echobox=1584718691

Oo yay. I'll be watching that!

Hooray! Possibly the best news I've had all year. Thanks for sharing that OP.

I'm so excited about this!! Me and my sister read these books over and over as children, cant wait to watch it 😊

I'm so excited for this!

Thanks for this OP!!

Brilliant, something that will be pure escapism

Excellent, thanks for sharing 😊

I'm excited... and frightened.

I'm worried they're going to iron out all the ye-oldy-weirdness which made Malory Towers so charming. Like when they brought back The Magic Faraway Tree as a book and changed Fanny to Frannie. That kind of thing.
I can imagine getting far too invested and shouting "Alicia would NEVER have said that!" Or "they would have had ginger beer at a midnight feast, not lemonade!".
I was the same with the new Anne With an E series on Netflix. They made it too too... woke? It just became weird having Gilbert Blythe able to help a woman give birth in a shantytown.
Sorry, rambling off topic. That's what 8 days in quarrantine will do for you.

Can't wait! Here's .

I take it back, it looks pretty good!
I always imagined Daryl with short hair though - she looks more how I'd image Sally (nitpick).

Those dresses are a hideous colour!

In my malory towers books, they wore amazing drop-waisted tunics which looked grey. I think they had a natty tie-belt in their house colours?

I guess my Malory Towers imagining has them all look a bit like sensible flappers from the 1920s.
I'm enjoying the bathing cap experience and the outdoor rock pool in the youtube video - they totally nailed that. Is it just me, or did that pool seem like the worst punishment ever - freezing cold sea water?

A bit more about the cast and characters. No doubt the Daily Mail will sneer at the casting for being "too PC" or some such bollocks. But no Mam'zelle DuPont!!

Who is playing the Mam'zelles? Anyone we know?

@WhatKatyDidNot Check the link I posted a few minutes ago. Looks like it only features Mam'zelle Rougier who was, I think we can all agree, the lesser of the Mam'zelles!

I would love for them to do a no holds barred, wholly anti woke, shoving people into the freezing cold pool for not being sufficiently tough and athletic, warts and all version -

however I have a nasty feeling it will be very sanitised, and Call The Midwifey, in school uniform. With Added Social Justice.

(Chilblains and all, obvs, not warts.)

It hardly looks "woke"

I want to love it, but I don't think I'll be able to stop myself criticising it for not being how it was in my head!

I already hate the uniforms and none of the cast look right.

But I am open to conversion!