New adaptations in 2015

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Wolf Hall (January, BBC2) Former Homeland star Damian Lewis and Shakespearean actor Mark Rylance take top billing in this lavish six-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. The tale of Tudor intrigue...

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Sherlock, Jamaica Inn, Game of Thrones locations

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Which stunning TV settings topped all others last year? Read on to find out the top 10 backdrops of 2014... 6. London – the setting of Sherlock London is a key element of both Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and the BBC1 hit series, starring...

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Margaret Thatcher considered forcing the BBC to show adverts

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Margaret Thatcher considered forcing the BBC to show adverts, newly released documents reveal. Records from September 1979, written just months after Mrs Thatcher took office, show that the former Prime Minister harboured concerns about “extravagant”...

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In French: Une nouvelle adaptation de Guerre et Paix (BBC)

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Ce devrait être l'un des événements de la grille de BBC One pour les mois à venir. Annoncée début 2013, la nouvelle adaptation de Guerre et Paix , le roman mondialement connu de Léon Tolstoï , prend finalement forme avec l'annonce de son casting complet...

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Mapp and Lucia: meet the characters

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Devotees of EF Benson's 1930s series of comic novels, Mapp and Lucia, are in for a treat this Christmas: a three-part adaptation penned by Steve Pemberton (above, playing Lucia's camp, platonic friend Georgie), and starring Miranda Richardson and Anna...

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Wolf Hall: trailer

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Wolf Hall is heading to a television (tuned to BBC2) near you very soon - so what better way to prepare yourself for the screen adaptation of Hilary Mantel's award-winning novels than, well, er, a trailer... Charting the meteoric rise of Thomas Cromwell...

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Filming location

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When the BBC made the decision to dramatise Mapp and Lucia, EF Benson’s series of comic novels that parody the snobbery and pretensions of the upper-middle-classes in 1930s small-town Britain, the only possible place they could film the series was in...

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Rebecca

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Le premier film américain de Hitchcock – qui remplaça le projet Titanic – baigne encore dans une ambiance typiquement anglo-saxonne, aux confins du fantastique, empruntée à la littérature de Daphné du Maurier. Si la production est hollywoodienne le sujet...

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Howard's End (James Ivory - 1991)

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Londres, au début du XXe siècle. Les sœurs Margaret et Helen Schlegel, filles de bonne famille ouvertes aux idées nouvelles, font la connaissance des Wilcox, un clan riche et traditionnel. La liaison sans lendemain entre Helen et l’un des fils Wilcox,...

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The epic poem Beowulf is to be made into a 13-part drama by ITV

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The epic poem Beowulf is to be made into a 13-part drama by ITV. Described as a western set in the dark ages of Britain’s mythic past, the series will use locations in County Durham and Northumbria to represent the poem’s Scandinavian setting, and will...

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