The Greek island of Corfu is to again host a popular British drama based on the life of author Gerald Durrell.
Broadcaster ITV has recommissioned another series of The Durrells, an award-winning drama based on a trilogy of books written by Durrell when his family lived on the Ionian island during the 1930s.
The series has been much lauded as a sunny, moving story that “captures an age of innocence” and “recreates an authentic sense of innocent exoticism.”
According to the Guardian newspaper, it has succeeded in once more bringing families together around a television set once a week.
Talking to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA), the producer of the series Christopher Hall noted that he had insisted that it be shot on Corfu, despite the difficulties presented at that time, and felt vindicated by the result.
The idyllic setting on the island was a critical part of the series’ success, Hall said, while he predicted a bright future for Greece’s audiovisual industry following the introduction of a cash rebate for film companies that shoot in Greece, which The Durrells will be among the first productions to receive.
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