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George Orwell's 1984 is getting a TV adaptation from Dickinson producer
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Independent studio Wiip is adapting Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s play 1984, based on Orwell’s eponymous 1949 dystopian social science fiction novel, as a five-part series for television, according to Variety. 1984 has been adapted for TV three times before: for CBS in 1953 and for the BBC in 1954 and 1965.
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