DEXTER PROCTER: ADAM KAY CHILDREN'S NOVEL SET FOR BBC DRAMA ADAPTATION

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Adam Kay's children's novel Dexter Procter: The 10 Year Old Doctor is set for a BBC drama adaptation.

TV Zone understands pre-production is underway on the 2-part drama, which is being produced by production company Various Artists for the BBC. Filming is due to commence in August this year and the commission has not yet been announced by the BBC.

The description for the book reads: "It was clear from an early age that Dexter Procter was different. He started speaking at four seconds old. By the age of three, he had 87 A-levels, from Afrikaans to Zoology. And by ten, he was working as a paediatrician at Lilydale General Hospital.

"Despite a loving but annoying family and a couple of good friends (Rupi and Otto), Dexter’s always struggled to fit in. Add to this a mortal enemy (Dr Drake) and a major problem at his old school (all the teachers struck down with awful diarrhoea) – will Dexter be able to save his job, save the school and find his place in the world? (Spoiler alert: yes!)"

Kay was also behind the BBC drama This Is Going To Hurt which was based on the writer's award-winning international multi-million selling memoir of the same name, which sold over 2.5 million copies and has been translated into 37 languages.

Kay’s diaries, scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, tell the unvarnished truth of life as a doctor working in obstetrics and gynaecology.

More details on Dexter will be announced in due course.