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Elizabeth Gregory

Chums: More Boris coming to your TV screens as Simon Kuper’s hit 80s Oxford book gets picked up by TV studio

You may think you’ve seen quite enough of Boris Johnson recently, but there is more on its way as Simon Kuper’s hit novel Chums, about Oxford in the Eighties, the Bullingdon Club and the friendship group that has risen to rule the UK, is going to be made into a four-part TV series.

The forthcoming show is still in its very early days of production: it was only announced in May that Channel 4-backed Scottish group Two Rivers Media will be developing it.

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