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All the books by Cecil Foster adapted to cinema and television

Cecil Foster is known for being the author of the book They Call Me George, first published in 2019, which was adapted to television by Aubrey Nealon, Bruce Ramsay in 2022.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the TV series is better.
The Porter. Poster of the 2022 TV series and cover of the 2019 book, They Call Me George
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They Call Me George
Cecil Foster, 2019
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The Porter
Aubrey Nealon, Bruce Ramsay, 2022-

The series depict the history of Black Canadian and African-American men who worked as Pullman porters in the period following World War I, leading to the 1925 creation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters as the first Black-led labour union.