After watching Netflix eat the lunches of the BBC and ITV on New Year's Day with hit Harlan Coben adaptations reset in the U.K., Amazon is trying its hand at one, with Lazarus.
Masterpiece scoops up the French-made English-language The Count of Monte Cristo TV series starring Sam Cliflin (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) and Jeremy Irons (Watchmen).
After the failure to launch the 2024 French film Le Comte de Monte-Cristo in the States, two more adaptations of The Count of Monte Cristo, hoping for American distribution, have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.