All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Hugh Laurie, ranked

Jonathan Pine, an Englishman, is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with Richard Roper, an English billionaire. Four years pass, and then Roper visits the Swiss hotel. What follows is a very dangerous game of intrigue and deception.

Ebenezer Blackadder, the Victorian proprietor of a moustache shop, is the nicest man in England. He is everything that Ebenezer Scrooge was by the end of the original story: generous and kind to everybody, and sensitive to the misery of others. As a result, people take advantage of his kindness – Mrs. Scratchit and an orphan take all his money, and a beadle takes his food.

John Yossarian is a United States Army Air Forces bombardier in World War II, furious that thousands of people are trying to kill him and that his own army keeps increasing the number of missions he must fly. He chose bombardier hoping the war would finish before his lengthy training but now sits exposed in the nose of a B-25 dropping bombs on strangers who are trying to kill him.

The series focuses on a forensic neuropsychiatrist, Dr. Eldon Chance, living in San Francisco, who is semi-willingly pulled into his patient Jaclyn Blackstone’s dangerous life of police corruption, manipulation, and abuse. In the second season, Hynes blackmails Chance and Darius into going after a software tycoon who may secretly be a serial killer, while the pair also use Darius’s fighting skills to bring justice to the various abusers of Chance’s patients.

When Bobby Jones and Frankie Derwent comes across the body of a dying man, they hear his cryptic last words – ‘Why didn’t they ask Evans?’. They soon discover a photograph of a beautiful young woman in the dead man’s pocket and with that as their only clue they set about solving the mystery behind his death.

This is the story of Marie-Laure, a blind French teenager, and Werner, a German soldier, whose lives intersect in occupied France as they struggle to endure the chaos of World War II.

While a conflict wages in the Bougainville province of Papua New Guinea, a young girl finds herself captivated by the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. The story is being read aloud at school by the sole white man in the village, and the girl becomes engrossed in its narrative.

An American family relocates to Canterville Chase, an elegant countryside mansion haunted by Sir Simon De Canterville, the ghost who has roamed the halls for three centuries.

The Kingdom of France faces bankruptcy from King Louis XIV’s wars against the Dutch, and the citizens are living on rotten food. After Louis XIII died, Anne revealed Philippe’s existence to Louis XIV, who was too superstitious to have his brother killed but had him imprisoned in the iron mask to keep his identity secret, something Aramis carried out.

In 1964, a young boy named Frank Walker attends the 1964 New York World’s Fair to sell his prototype jet pack, but is rejected as it does not work. Frank obeys and sneaks onto the ride, where the pin is scanned by a laser, and he is transported to Tomorrowland, a futuristic cityscape, where advanced robots fix his jetpack, allowing him to fly and join the secretive world.

The life of David Copperfield is chronicled from his birth to the present day. After being told of his mother’s death and funeral, David escapes from his life of drudgery and finds his wealthy aunt Betsey Trotwood and her lodger, the eccentric Mr. Dick. fter troubling problems with Steerforth and Uriah Heep, Betsey Trotwood finances David’s ambition to become a gentleman and author.

Every town on Discworld knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice – a street wise tomcat – leads a band of educated ratty friends and a stupid kid on a nice little earner. Piper plus rats equals lots and lots of money. Until they run across someones playing a different tune. Now Maurice and his rats must learn a new concept: evil.