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BBC to screen racy version of Tolstoy epic

BBC to screen racy version of Tolstoy epic

It is considered by many to be the greatest novel ever written – an enthralling tale of epic love and cold-hearted betrayal played out against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. But the BBC’s new adaptation of War And Peace has left scholars of the...

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Sherlock Christmas Special

Sherlock Christmas Special

So, we have Sherlock and John looking extremely dapper in some new Victorian outfits, Benedict Cumberbatch in a classic Sherlock Holmes silhouette and Rupert Graves with bushy side whiskers – yep, there's plenty to enjoy about the newly released photos...

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Additional funding for the BBC World Service

In a change to his usual programming, the George Osborne used the spending review to announce additional funding for the BBC World Service. This would have come as a surprise to anybody paying attention to the BBC, which has spent the last five years...

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Better than the book: Capital (BBC)

Be warned: the BBC’s adaptation of John Lanchester’s somewhat schematic 2012 novel Capital doesn’t make for unadulteratedly happy viewing. This isn’t to say that it isn’t good – this is one of those rare occasions when the TV version is better than the...

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BBC3 will go off air in March

BBC3 will cease to exist as a television channel in March after the BBC Trust formally approved plans to close it. No new programming will air on the channel from the end of January, when the station effectively becomes a promotional tool for the online...

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In French: The Man in the High Castle – Cauchemar en images

In French: The Man in the High Castle – Cauchemar en images

L e 1er janvier 1962, l'écrivain américain Philip K. Dick publiait un roman renfermant le pire cauchemar du monde: une histoire alternative dans laquelle les puissances de l'Axe, le IIIe Reich allemand et le Japon impérial, sortaient vainqueurs de la...

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Tony Hall speech to the Cardiff Business Club

It is a pleasure to be here this evening. One of my first trips in my very first week as Director-General was here to Cardiff to visit BBC Wales and the Roath Lock studios. That week, of course, goes down as the proudest of my professional career. Not...

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BBC World Service gets funding boost from government

The money is to help "build the global reach of the World Service" to half a billion people and "increase access to news and information". Director general Tony Hall said he "warmly welcomed" the announcement. The government will provide £34m between...

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Jude (Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy) on arte

Dans un village anglais de l’époque victorienne, le jeune Jude Fawley reçoit de son maître d'école un conseil décisif : si l'on veut prendre le contrôle de sa vie et la réussir, il faut étudier sans cesse et rejoindre les grandes universités. Suivant...

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The Man in the High Castle: What if?

The Man in the High Castle: What if?

What if the Nazis won the war? What if Hitler beat the U.S. to the atomic bomb and dropped it on Washington, D.C.? What if the Axis powers then divided the U.S. and occupied their new territories: Greater Nazi Reich in the east and the Japanese Pacific...

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