BBC’s Normal People bosses to adapt second Sally Rooney novel Conversations with Friends for TV drama – The Sun

BBC's Normal People bosses are going to adapt Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends into a TV drama.

The creative team behind the raunchy hit BBC3 TV show are going to create another TV show based on a Sally Rooney book.

Conversations With Friends was Rooney’s debut novel, and released in 2017, which was followed by Normal People the following year. Normal People's co-producer Ed Guiney has also addressed the possibility of a whether a sequel of the wildly popular series will be made.

He replied: "Not in the short term,’ he said. ‘We’ve turned our attention – we’re adapting Conversations with Friends as a television series."

All hope is not lost, as he added: "But maybe down the line we’ll come back to Connell and Marianne."

Guiney also mentioned that the new show will feature "the same basic team. "Lenny’s [Abrahamson] going to direct it and is across it as an EP [executive producer]. And Alice Birch and all of us at Element [Pictures]."

The show has been very popular among viewers and it certainly had its fair share of intimate scenes, as an astounding 41 minutes of sex took place across the show's first series – making it the BBC's raunchiest drama ever.

The drama, which is based on a 2018 novel of the same name by Sally Rooney, featured 11 minutes of raunchy action in its second episode.

12 per cent of the show, which has so far been downloaded more than 23million times, is taken up with sex, kissing or foreplay.

A source close to the show revealed the writers had not wanted to deviate from the story's essence.

They said: "The writers wanted to stay true to the book and that featured a lot of sex. They didn’t want to portray it gratuitously though, and an intimacy coach was used to ensure the cast were happy at all times."

They continued: "But there’s no denying there’s a lot of nakedness and lots of sex — it’s probably not one to watch with the parents!"

Due to some complaints from viewers saying the show looked "like a porno", actor Paul Mescal hit back, and was pleased to see the story told on Irish screens: "I actually listened in [to Liveline] yesterday, and I suppose I was a bit surprised, but the last thing I want to do is sit and judge people for that, because they’re entitled to their opinion.

"My own perspective of it is we worked hard to make it feel like it was a real, accurate and truthful representation of sex amongst young people."

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