Best-selling novelist and showrunner Harlan Coben kicked off the 62nd edition of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival Friday with an expression of solidarity with the striking members of the Writers…
Coben, the co-showrunner and executive producer of Prime Video series “Harlan Coben’s Shelter,” which opened the festival with the world premiere of its first episode, said he wouldn’t be taking part in the promotion of the show at the festival to demonstrate his support for the strike.
Coben, whose books have sold more than 80 million copies and have been published in 45 languages, said that when was 18 years old and first went to Amherst College – “I was a freshman, I was scared, and I didn’t know anybody” – a friend introduced him to a friend of his named “Alby,” who was a senior.
Addressing Prince Albert on stage at the festival, Coben said: “There were other high-profile people who had fancy houses, but you had one of the worst dorms on campus, a terrible black-and-white TV … and it was just a wonderful experience of how kind this man was. So, I just wanted to say thank you to your highness, and … ‘Hey Alby!'” The anecdote was greeted with warm applause and laughter by the Prince’s loyal subjects.
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