Clodagh Finn: Time for a drama on real-life ‘girl stunt reporters’

Why do TV producers insist on remaking the classics when there are so many real-life adventures that are far more dramatic?

David Tennant with Ibrahim Koma and Leonie Benesch in ‘Around the World in 80 Days’. Why why do TV producers insist on remaking the classics when there are so many real-life adventures that are far more dramatic? Such as Nellie Bly or Elizabeth Bisland’s sensational round-the-world trip in 72 days and 76 days in 1889.

I punched the air when journalist Abigail Fix burst into the stuffy gentleman’s Reform Club and berated the editor of The Daily Telegraph for putting a man’s byline on her column in a gloriously boisterous scene in the BBC remake of Around the World in 80 Days.

If you are going to revisit a classic and broadcast it during peak festive viewing, you have to give it a modern twist.