The Darling Buds of May (TV series) series ended, Ferris wished to film more episodes. Having performed it for radio in 1996, she theorised in 2008 that the reason the fifth book was never adapted for television was because the storyline featured Pop recovering from a heart attack, something the producers likely thought the audience would not want to see. In 2016, having filmed a cinema adaptation of another classic TV series, "Dad's Army", Zeta-Jones responded positively to suggestions that "The Darling Buds of May" might also be similarly remade, stating "I'd be playing Ma Larkin, but I'm up for it". Locally produced food and drink intentionally
E (novel) in several countries." For some time, Miller Shanks even had their own (fictitious) web site, "www.millershanks.com" (no longer active) for readers to browse through. Beaumont also wrote a short sequel to the novel, "The e Before Christmas" (2000), and a complete sequel entitled "e Squared" (2010) incorporating text messaging content alongside emails. E (novel) e (originally subtitled "The Novel of Liars, Lunch and Lost Knickers") is a comic novel by Matt Beaumont first published in 2000. Written in the epistolary tradition, it consists entirely of e-mails written between the employees of an advertising agency and some of their business partners.