I’VE JUST FINISHED WRITING The Last Days of Budapest, an account of the Hungarian capital during the Second World War. Like every author nowadays I dream that my book will be turned into a television series. Until now, received wisdom was that the high production costs of period dramas deter producers.
But that is changing: Masters of the Air, about American bombers during the war, had a budget of $250 million. Todd Kessler’s , also on Apple TV+, doubtless cost less but the vivid period details are even more finely observed.
