The Diary of a Nobody the first, "The Diary of a Somebody", is a direct reference to the Grossmith original. Reviewing this volume in "The Spectator", Benny Green points out several parallels with the original, in both character and event. Matthew's book, says Green, is amusing, but the Grossmiths' book is superior; it is "affecting as well as comical, in a way that the Matthew pastiche is not". In 1982 came the first appearance of Sue Townsend's teenage creation, Adrian Mole, whose passage into young manhood and early middle age is charted in a long series of diaries. The more middle-aged he becomes, says Morton,
Secret Diary of a Call Girl called "Dagboek van een Callgirl" ("Diary of a Call Girl") started airing its first season on March 26, 2015 on Net 5. Sanne Langelaar portrays 'Anne', who secretly works as the callgirl 'Jolie'. The show is set in Amsterdam. The first season adapts several scripts from the first and second series of the UK series. Secret Diary of a Call Girl Secret Diary of a Call Girl is a British television drama broadcast on ITV2 from 27 September 2007 to 22 March 2011 based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous "Belle de Jour," starring Billie Piper as Belle,