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Sunday 30th December on ITV 1 from 7:00pm to 8:00pm
In 2007, Harry Potter fans across the world were beside themselves with anticipation over the publication of the seventh and final book in the phenomenally successful series. This documentary reveals how author JK Rowling coped with the weight of such high expectations - and the prospect of saying goodbye to her most famous creation - by following her as she completes work on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Cameras also chart the progress of the finished article as it is delivered in a locked suitcase to her agent at Heathrow Airport, and the battle to keep the contents secret before the official worldwide release on July 21. When she's not slaving over a hot keyboard, JK finds time to show viewers some of the places which inspired her work, including the Forest of Dean, King's Cross station, Castle Duart on the Island of Mull and the Great Hall of Christ Church College in Oxford. The film-makers also take her on a sentimental journey to revisit her childhood home for the first time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_wNdij_gIQ
ooooo yay I think this will be good to see :)
StarsOfCCTV
23-12-2007, 13:41
It looks like it could be quite interesting. If it doesn't clash with anything I really want to see I'll watch it :D
ITV has sent us another clip from the upcoming documentary "JK Rowling... A Year in the Life." It shows a very emotional Jo returning to the flat she once lived in. Click the link below to see the video and an accompanying press release. Remember that the documentary will air on December 30th on ITV at 7:00 PM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRFMB69M_vc
Press Release from ITV
TEARS AS JK ROWLING MAKES EMOTIONAL RETURN TO FLAT WHERE HARRY POTTER CAME TO LIFE
JK Rowling breaks down in tears when she returns to the flat where she wrote the first Harry Potter book, and admitted that even after a decade of phenomenal success, she still sometimes struggles to believe her current life is real.
The moment was captured during filming for JK Rowling…A Year in the Life, transmitting on Sunday 30th December at 7pm on ITV, as Jo, returning for the first time to the flat in Leith, Scotland, where she began writing the Harry Potter saga, was overcome with emotion on facing the ‘ghosts’ of her past - the struggle she endured during her early writing.
The flat is only a few miles from her main home in Edinburgh, yet she had never gone back there before.
Stepping in to the front room of the flat Jo says: “This is really the room where I finished Philosopher’s Stone, here. This is really where I turned my life around completely. My life really changed in this flat.”
Jo explains further: “I feel I really became myself here, in that everything was stripped away, I’d made such a mess of things. But that was freeing, so I just thought, ‘Well, I want to write,’ and I wrote the book and, ‘What is the worst that can happen? It gets turned down by every publisher in Britain, big deal. It’s really back to the wall time here.’”
As she walks around her old home she is amazed to find copies of the Harry Potter books in what was her bedroom, but is now occupied by new residents.
“Oh look, Harry Potter books! Now that is really freaky,” she said.
Reflecting on her massive fame and fortune Jo is visibly choked to be back at the place where her journey began, and says she still can’t quite believe how far she has come in 10 years.
“For years now I’ve felt that if it all disappeared, and some days I do feel like ‘is it real?’, then this is where I’d come back to, this would be my base line, I’d be back in Leith.
“And if I’d known that 10 years on I’d come back with a film crew and there’d be my published books on someone else’s bookcase in this room…is really incredible to me.”
Jo talked about how she wished she could have known her decision to write the Harry Potter books was going to have such a “fairytale resolution” during the toughest times in the beginning.
“Because it’s such a well worn part of my story now, it’s a big yawn to hear how I wrote it, as though it was all some kind of publicity stunt for a year, but it was my life and it was very hard and I didn’t know that there was going to be this fairytale resolution, and coming back here is just full of ghosts.”
For the first time in her phenomenal career, author JK Rowling invited a camera into the heart of her personal world for JK Rowling…A Year In the Life. Filmmaker James Runcie, a fellow author, filmed Jo for twelve months as she completed and launched the seventh and final Harry Potter book – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The documentary paints an intimate portrait of a woman at the height of staggering success which sometimes overawes her, who never expected the international fame that her books have brought her, and provides an honest, poignant and often humorous insight into her past, her personal life and her devotion to her writing and the character she describes as her own hero, Harry.
Jo is filmed on a private jet with her husband Neil as they travel to the US for the eagerly anticipated book tour and she also reveals what influenced her writing, notably the death of her mother and how this seeped into every aspect of the books, and why she felt Harry had to triumph in the end.
Aww, I cant wait to watch it, really think it will be interesting and its amazing to see how one persons life can change
I will definitely be watching this. Hope to record it too. Can't wait :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF0sP3goOfU
ITV has sent us a final clip from the upcoming documentary "JK Rowling... A Year in the Life." It shows Jo drawing out the family trees for both the Potters and the Weasleys. Click the link below to see the video and an accompanying press release. The documentary will air on December 30th on ITV at 7:00 p.m.
HARRY POTTER – WHAT HAPPENED NEXT…
JK ROWLING MAPS OUT HOGWARTS PUPIL'S FUTURE AS SHE REVEALS STRUGGLE TO LET HER HERO GO
JK Rowling has revealed that after seventeen years engrossed in the Hogwarts world she created, it was almost impossible to let go of her hero Harry and his friends, so much so that she has mapped out their futures in a family tree.
But, she insists that the stories of these characters, their relationships and their children, will remain locked in her imagination, ruling out a further sequel in the Harry Potter saga.
In the ITV1 documentary JK Rowling…A Year in the Life, transmitting Sunday 30th December at 7pm, Jo reveals how she felt compelled to plan the futures of all the surviving characters, and draws out the Weasley/Potter family tree.
"I can't help it," says Jo. "You know what it was like, it was like running a race, and you get to the finishing line and you're running too fast to stop, so I do know what happened afterwards and I couldn't stop my imagination doing that.
"So I know this sounds an awful lot of detail to go into for your own satisfaction and not because you're planning to write more books, but that's just how it was I couldn't stop, I had to know – I had to know what happened next."
Jo was filmed exclusively by James Runcie for the documentary. As a fellow author, James emphasises that writers always have to know more detail than is actually used when writing a book. Jo responds: "Yes and I carried that on into another generation."
James asks if this whole new generation of characters means more Hogwarts books could be written, but Jo rules out a further sequel.
"So all of that could be another book?" said James.
Hesitantly Jo replied: "Yeah,…don't, don't, don't, it can't be. I think no, it's time to stop, it's time to stop now.
"It gives me a certain satisfaction to say what I thought happened and to tell other people that, because I would like my version to be the official version still, even though I've not written it in a book, because it's my world."
Jo drew out the family tree exclusively for the documentary and explained what happened to the young friends, so fans can learn their fate.
She runs through the Weasley children one by one and explains where she sees them in life now, and also touches on the future of Luna Lovegood.
The documentary also follows Jo on a private jet with her husband Neil as they travel to the US for the eagerly anticipated final book tour.
She speaks in depth about what influenced her writing, notably the death of her mother and how this seeped into every aspect of the books, and why she felt Harry had to triumph in the end.
Thank the lord you have reminded me that this is on tomorrow
*writes down and sticks on Tv *
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