Harry Gordon Selfridge was an American visionary whose famous department store on Oxford Street in London (Selfridges) basically became the blueprint for what the "shopping experience" ultimately became.
He gave the buying public the power to feel the merchandise by displaying it, put the perfume counter front and center and coined the phrase "The Customer is Always Right".
The book Shopping, Seduction and Mr Selfridge by Lindy Woodhead provides the basis for the new UK television show Mr. Selfridge and stars Jermey Piven as Selfridge. . The rest of the cast is rounded out by Katherine Kelly, Frances O’Connor, French actor Gregory Fitoussi, Aisling Loftus, Trystan Gravelle and Zoe Tapper.[THR]
Mr. Selfridge will begin shooting in April and be released sometime in 2013.
