BBC Television Shakespeare the abandoned production of "Much Ado About Nothing". It was repeated on 22 June 1981. The "Prefaces to Shakespeare" episode for "The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight" was presented by Donald Sinden, who had played Henry in a 1969 RCS production directed by Trevor Nunn. The "Shakespeare in Perspective" episode was presented by novelist and literary scholar Anthony Burgess. Cast The week prior to the screening of this episode in both the UK and the US, the first-season episode "King Richard the Second" was repeated as a lead-in to the trilogy. The episode also began
Much Ado About Nothing the album is also a quotation from the play. The 2014 YouTube web series Nothing Much to Do is a modern retelling of the play, set in New Zealand. In 2015, Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the music for a rock opera adaptation of the play, "These Paper Bullets", which was written by Rolin Jones. In 2017, a YA adaptation was released by author Mckelle George called "Speak Easy, Speak Love", where the events of the play take place in the 1920s, focused around a failing speakeasy. In 2018, author Molly Booth released a summer YA novel adaptation called "Nothing Happened",