An interview with Maggie Smith

Downton Abbey, Maggie Smith, Shakespeare, television

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"Do you know Paris?” The question is shamefully inconsequential, a piece of conversational putty while I am trying to process Dame Maggie Smith’s wicked, but entirely truthful, admission that she cannot remember much about her latest film, except that...

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Andrew Dickens: What the Dickens!

Andrew Davies, BBC, Bleak House, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, Pride & Prejudice

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When is the wet shirt moment? "There isn't going to be one," says Andrew Davies. "There are some very tender glances in Little Dorrit, but there is no 'Phwoar!'" Can this be true? A straight take on Charles Dickens from the man who put the cor blimey...

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In French: the best TV adaptations

andrew davies, BBC, dickens, game of thrones, george rr martin, HBO, jane eyre, les rois maudits, little dorrit, maupassant, maurice druon

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LE SCAN TÉLÉ - La petite Dorrit, relecture magnifique d'un des romans fleuves du célèbre Charles Dickens, a démarré jeudi soir sur Arte. L'occasion d'un classement des adaptations télé de monuments littéraires, depuis ses dix dernières années… La petite...

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In French: La Petite Dorrit par la BBC

andrew davies, arte, BBC, charles dickens, Julian Fellowes, Little Dorrit, serial literature

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Inégalable dans le domaine de l'adaptation en séries des monuments de la littérature anglo-saxonne, la BBC livrait en 2008 La Petite Dorrit, une minisérie en 8 épisodes inspirée du roman-fleuve de Charles Dickens. L'oeuvre a reçu 7 récompenses aux Emmy...

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Little Dorrit on arte, starting November 27th

Andrew Davies, arte, BBC, Charles Dickens, John Lunn, Little Dorrit

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Le scénariste Andrew Davies est l’adaptateur hors pair des grands classiques anglais du XIXe siècle, de Jane Austen à Dickens en passant par George Eliot. Il a su préserver avec La petite Dorrit le caractère foisonnant du roman-fleuve de Charles Dickens...

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The licence fee : 20 years ago vs. today

BBC, licence fee

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PD James dies at 94

Jane Austen, PD James, Pride & Prejudice

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Author PD James has died, aged 94, her family has confirmed in a statement. "It is with great sadness that the family of author PD James, Baroness James of Holland Park OBE, FRSL, FRSA, announce that she died peacefully at her home in Oxford on the morning...

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New adaptation of Jekyll & Hyde

BBC, ITV, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and My Hyde

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Fast Show alumnus Charlie Higson is to reimagine Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story of Jekyll and Hyde in a new 10-part series for ITV. Set in 1930s London, the drama will pay homage to Stevenson’s 1886 novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and My Hyde...

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Shortage of costumes for a BBC adaptation

BBC, costume drama, Downton Abbey, EF Benson, Mapp & Lucia

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Set in a small town in the 1930s, EF Benson's much-loved books about feuding socialites Miss Elizabeth Mapp and Mrs Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas are as delectably English as a slice of Victoria sandwich. But when the BBC came to shoot its adaptation – which...

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Northanger Abbey (2008): from novel to film, Catherine's imagination

Andrew Davies, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, PBS Masterpiece

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NOVEL Excerpted from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Volume I, Chapter 3. "I see what you think of me," said [Tilney] gravely — "I shall make but a poor figure in your journal tomorrow." "My journal!"[replied Catherine] "Yes, I know exactly what you...

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