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Did you know... that The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is the first major film or television production to be shot on location in Botswana?

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Audience impact

I suggest that we watch closely for audience impact indicators. I just watched the programme this evening, having somehow missed all the advance publicity and only being aware of the stories from a chance listening to one of the Radio 4 plays a couple of year ago. The ensemble cast was superb, Jill Scott and Anika Noni Rose fit the roles beautifully, and McCall-Smith's sensitive and respectful treatment of the Southern African setting is transmitted faithfully. I cannot remember the last time I was so overwhelmed by the overall transportive effect of a television drama. I would be a little surprised if I turned out to be an outlier in this. --Anticipation of a New Lover's Arrival, The 23:07, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I thoroughly enjoyed it too. I didn't think I would, but I did. As long as they replace the actress playing the extremely-irritating Secretary by the time they shoot the main series, it should fly. I can't help feeling that this 'ticked all the right boxes' with the Guardianistas at the BBC when it came to funding. i.e. female / ethnic / victim of domestic violence etc. I haven't read the books, but I suppose if the storylines tick the few remaining boxes at the bottom of the list (i.e. AIDS / Homophobia / Global Warming) it should be a shoo-in at next year's awards. MaxieT (talk) 10:12, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Africa Insight spam???

The blurbs about the tour company Africa Insight sounds a lot like promotional spam. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.231.117.209 (talk) 05:45, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Number of episodes

Reports back in 2008 were that 13 episodes were ordered, not 6 as stated.

Are there any sources that explain the discrepancy? Biscit (talk) 11:09, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that HBO -optioned- the rights to 13 episodes, but has only ordered the 6 episodes plus the pilot thus far. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ulfrikr (talk • contribs) 20:19, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This December 5th, 2007 article says it was to be a movie to be broadcast on BBC One in Winter 2008. I don't know if that's related to this movie which premiered in March 2008.
This March 10, 2008 article says that HBO ordered 13 episodes with filming in summer 2008 with HBO distributing in USA/Canada and BBC in the UK.
This November 28, 2008 says it'll show in 2009 as a six-part series.

I looked around but did not find any articles from reliable sources that explain why it was changed from a movie, to 13 episodes, and then six episodes. Unfortunately, the Google News thing that shows handy bar charts by month is broken at the moment meaning it'll take a bit of work to spot articles from March to November 2008 that would explain the change. --Marc Kupper|talk 05:06, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why?

Original run: 23 March 2008 – present. Why does it still say "present"? Is there any sign of life from HBO? --SimoneMLK (talk) 14:03, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

HBO is not the "be all and end all" of deciding whether a series is "current" or not. That said, I really havn't got a clue as to the actual situation, the series has not yet appeared on tv in my country. Maybe is is still running on a BBC channel? Roger (talk) 10:45, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2 more new episodes?

is there any more news besides recent tweet [1] from mccall smith? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 113.253.2.106 (talk) 10:32, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]