In UK, Agatha Christie’s fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are set to go digital in a bid to bring the author’s widely read crime stories to the digital age, reports Guardian…Chorion, which owns the rights to the Christie library, has struck a global deal with Interactive Rights Management to exploit global internet and mobile rights for the author’s novels, short stories and plays.
Some of these digital spin-offs will use clips from TV drama adaptations of Christie’s work featuring actors such as David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, ranging from 20 seconds to one minute.
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