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BBC Books has acquired the tie-in to a new series fronted by "Supersizers" presenters Giles Coren and Sue Perkins. Lorna Russell, editorial director, acquired world rights from Caroline Michel at PFD for production company Silver River for an undisclosed sum.
Coren and Perkins will attempt to re-create the self-sufficient lifestyles portrayed in Seventies sitcom "The Good Life" in the three-part BBC2 autumn series, plus a Christmas -special.
The £18.99 hardback has the working title Giles and Sue Live . . . The Good Life and is lined up for 29th October.
The Ebury imprint also has a tie-in to "Human Planet", the first BBC Natural History series to focus on the human race, in different habitats from cities to jungles. The "epic" series of eight hour-long episodes is lined up for October on BBC1. The tie-in title will be published as a £25 hardback in the same month.
Meanwhile, the four-part BBC2 series on novels to be presented by Birdsong author Sebastian Faulks has been moved to early 2011. The BBC Books tie-in Faulks on Fiction—The Secret Life of the Novel, has moved to 27th January 2011