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Pierre Bezukhov (Paul Dano) The central character, Pierre is the ungainly illegitimate son of a nobleman. US actor Dano is best known for his film work in movies like Little Miss Sunshine, There Will be Blood, 12 Years a Slave and Prisoners, and recently...
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Many people are afraid of War and Peace. It’s an immensely long novel, full of Russians with unpronounceable names; people talk about “tackling it” as if it were a marathon, or Everest. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I was afraid of it myself, but somehow...
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Beowulf expert and TV historian Michael Wood has a theory about Anglo-Saxons and television. “We live in a world where there’s a lot of terrifying and up-front violence, a world of Islamic State and horror going on around us,” he says. “That’s partly...
Read moreWill the show 'spoil' the novels? Maybe. Yes and no. Look, I never thought the series could possibly catch up with the books, but it has. The show moved faster than I anticipated and I moved more slowly. There were other factors too, but that was the...
Read moreWoman in White 4 X 60 Made by Origin Pictures with BBC NI Drama for BBC One. When Walter Hartright encounters a ghostly woman dressed all in white on a moonlit road, he soon finds himself drawn into a mysterious and disturbing world. Romance, suspense,...
Read moreBBC One has greenlit a long-gestating miniseries adaptation of Howards End, based on the classic EM Forster novel which was turned into an Oscar-winning Merchant Ivory feature in 1992. The four-part drama is produced by Colin Callender’s Playground in...
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They finally got Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes to put on that iconic deerstalker cap. In an episode from the second series of Masterpiece’s contemporary-set Sherlock, the title character impulsively uses the hat most associated with the literary...
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“First there is no Jane Austen and then it’s raining Jane Austen.” When a flurry of cinematic adaptations saw Austenmania hit Hollywood in 1995, even the filmmakers themselves seemed at a loss to say why: Doug McGrath, the director of Emma , speaking...
Read moreEastEnders, 6:30pm, 8:00pm, BBC1 Dean has finally been caught attacking Roxy by Shirley and she is determined that he will get his comeuppance. Elsewhere, Mick and Linda's wedding day draws nearer, with Dean returning to seek his revenge. Will the happy...
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