Pope Lonergan’s care home memoir I’ll Die After Bingo to be adapted by Expectation

London-based prodco Expectation Entertainment is set to adapt comedian Pope Lonergan’s book I’ll Die After Bingo for television.

The indie label secured the rights to the memoir in a deal with publisher Penguin Random House. I’ll Die After Bingo tells the story of Lonergan’s decade of looking after elderly people in care homes.

“I was completely won over by Pope’s writing,” said Morwenna Gordon, executive producer, scripted, at Expectation. “I’m so pleased to be working together to adapt this incredible book for TV.”

Lonergan added: “The adaptation is going to be both light and dark; uncompromising, poetic and, yes, very funny.”

BBC Studios-backed Expectation was launched by Peter Fincham and Tim Hincks in February 2017. Shows in its slate include Alma’s Not Normal for BBC Two and Intelligence for Sky Comedy.