On 31 August 1936 Elizabeth Cowell became the first female announcer. This was before the official launch of the television service on 2 November, when the BBC made test transmisssions for the RadiOlympia exhibition. Watch her original appearance, plus...
Read moreThis weekend, a new restoration of “Howards End,” the 1992 Merchant Ivory adaptation of E. M. Forster’s 1910 novel, starring Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Hopkins, and Vanessa Redgrave, began screening at Film Forum and the Paris Theatre;...
Read moreTÉLÉVISION - Prochainement, la chaîne du service public proposera aux téléspectateurs une mini-série portée par Tom Hiddleston et Hugh Laurie. France 3 s’apprête à créer l’événement en diffusant prochainement The Night Manager, une mini-série avec Tom...
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Near the end of the first season of FX’s Cold War spy thriller, The Americans, a Soviet sleeper-cell operative played by Keri Russell has an affair with a man wanted for the murder of an FBI agent. Troves of D.C. police are frantically canvassing the...
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Warning: season finale spoilers ahead. In a key scene from The Americans' Season 3 finale, Philip Jennings visits the apartment of an FBI employee who may know too much about the bugged pen planted in bureau headquarters. Naturally, Philip—the undercover...
Read moreBecause there are certain things you can’t get away with saying or doing in ad-supported TV, the medium has often used genre stories, like fantasy and science fiction, to say those things covertly. And another fertile ground for hidden meanings is the...
Read moreBBC1 has commissioned a three-part adaptation of Jessie Burton’s haunting period thriller The Miniaturist. The new series is likely to air in 2017 and has been adapted by the scriptwriter John Brownlow, who wrote the Gwyneth Paltrow film Ted and Sylvia....
Read moreJoe Weisberg and Joel Fields had never met before they were teamed up to write and produce The Americans for FX five years ago. Now, they continue to marvel at the similarities in their working styles and sense of aesthetics. In a wide-ranging conversation...
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The very first official broadcast on British Television is being recreated by the BBC exactly 80 years after it made history. Television's Opening Night: How the Box was Born will re-stage the event that originally took place at Alexandra Palace on 2nd...
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To truly understand the phrase "controlled chaos," you should consider crashing the set of a television show. It's my first day on the set of The Americans , FX's stellar Cold War spy drama. On this frigid November morning, I step into a nondescript Brooklyn...
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