How Shogun will go on – without James Clavell

• When 2024 began, few people had particularly high expectations for the new TV adaptation of Shõgun. Admittedly, James Clavell’s 1975 novel, which chronicles the various political and military machinations in 1600 Japan, was a much-loved phenomenon, selling millions of copies worldwide and inspiring a 1980 miniseries with Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune. Yet audiences have been so saturated with special effects-filled epics over the past few years that it seemed as if this series could eas