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Patricia Holm other film and TV adaptations of stories in which Holm originally appeared, the character name has been changed, until December 2012, when American actress Eliza Dushku stepped into the role for a backdoor pilot produced by Roger Moore and shot under the direction of Simon West. The subsequent pilot, which recast Holm as a high-tech and deadly thief, was not picked up as a series and was eventually released in 2017 (digitally and direct-to-video). Kim Thomson played Holm in a series of adaptations broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the 1990s. The character also appeared in the "Saint" comic strip