BBC Television Shakespeare Dionyza as an early version of Alexis Colby, Joan Collins' character in "Dynasty". The "Prefaces to Shakespeare" episode for "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" was presented by Amanda Redman who portrayed Marina in the BBC adaptation. The "Shakespeare in Perspective" episode was presented by poet and journalist P.J. Kavanagh. Cast The inaugural episode of the entire series was originally set to be a production of "Much Ado About Nothing", directed by Donald McWhinnie, and starring Penelope Keith and Michael York. The episode was shot (for £250,000), edited and even publicly announced as the opening of the series, before it was suddenly
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",