His relationship to The Last Kingdom has been somewhat different (and more positive), however, and he even took on a role in the series, playing Beornhead in the third season. The adaptation of Sharpe to the screen, however, saw Cornwell distance himself from the series – the attitude expressed being that television adaptation was not the same genre as his books and he should not be held responsible for its shortcomings (he was not involved in the scripts for the sixteen episodes). The Sharpe series of novels (1981-2006) covers 24 books. Cornwell is no stranger to the adaptations of his novels to the small screen his first fictional character, a British rifleman from the Napoleonic Wars, Richard Sharpe, was adapted for television between 1993-1997 and then again from 2006-2008.
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