08/12/25 Jonathan Creek is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter!
Remember Jonathan Creek, the inimitable comedy-drama series from the 90s and 00s about a duffel-coated, windmill-dwelling, socially-awkward mastermind who spent his time creating illusions and solving impossible crimes?
We’re incredibly proud to announce that Idiot Box Books is now crowdfunding a new Jonathan Creek adventure on Kickstarter.
The new story – The Fantom of the Acropolis – is a theatrical scriptbook from the macabre and masterful mind of David Renwick. Set a decade after the last onscreen Jonathan Creek adventure, it was written for a stage show to complement the television series and has now been immortalised in print. Expect monsters, sirens, vampires and mind-boggling howdunnits.
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05/08/25 The Girl from Tomorrow is now crowdfunding on Indiegogo!
The Girl from Tomorrow was a twelve-part Australian science fiction series first broadcast in 1990. It told the story of a 14-year-old time traveller from the year 3000 called Alana, who’s kidnapped by a bandit named Silverthorn and finds herself trapped in the twentieth century.
Written by acclaimed children’s writers, Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson, it was produced by Film Australia and was broadcast around the world. Including on Channel Nine in 1990 and BBC One in 1991.
35 years after its debut, The Girl from Tomorrow has achieved iconic status and is fondly remembered by its fans, who’ve since shown the series to their children (and in some cases grandchildren).
Idiot Box Books is proud to announce we’ve teamed up with Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson to crowdfund The Tomorrow Trilogy. A three book boxset featuring a reprint of The Girl from Tomorrow and Tomorrow’s End and, for the first time, a new sequel set 35 years after the original story called A New Tomorrow. Back the book NOW on Indiegogo:
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26/05/25 We’re proud to announce the launch of Goodnight Sweetheart: Many Happy Returns on Kickstarter
Goodnight Sweetheart was a beloved British sitcom written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. It aired on BBC One between 1993 and 1999 and told the story of a time-travelling bigamist called Gary Sparrow, played by Nicholas Lyndhurst, who won two National Television Awards for the role.
In 2016, Goodnight Sweetheart was re-booted for a one-off reunion episode called ‘Many Happy Returns’ as part of the BBC’s Landmark Sitcom Season. The audience figures were huge, the reviews were enthusiastic, the fans were ecstatic – everyone felt sure a new series would follow… but inexplicably, series seven was never commissioned! And to this day, hordes of Sweeties continue to wonder what happened to Gary Sparrow now that “normal service has been resumed”… until now.
Laurence and Maurice have teamed up with Idiot Box Books to write a novel which picks up where the series left off. The project is fully licensed by Fremantle Media and serves as the seventh series of Goodnight Sweetheart that might have been.
But the book can only be published if enough fans support the project on Kickstarter. So, if you’ve been shouting at the TV for the past decade, willing the series to return, now’s your chance to support the project and help to bring back Goodnight Sweetheart.
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