First look at the cast of The Moonstone

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Here they are – the cast of BBC1's latest period drama The Moonstone. Miranda's Sarah Hadland stars alongside Cold Feet actor John Thomson in the new version of Wilkie Collins' 1868 mystery, believed by many to be the first ever detective novel. Thomson...

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HBO Picks Up J.K. Rowling’s Crime Novels

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HBO has acquired US and Canadian rights to Cormoran Strike , BBC One’s high-profile new limited series based on J.K. Rowling’s bestselling crime novels, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The project had been rumored to be heading to HBO since...

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John Le Carré - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - arte - October 24th

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CYCLE JOHN LE CARRÉ «La taupe» de Tomas Alfredson - Lundi 24 octobre à 20h55 - arte En pleine guerre froide, un traître se cacherait à la tête du renseignement britannique. En "préretraite", l'agent Smiley est rappelé pour mener l'enquête... Une adaptation...

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Ken Loach bemoans TV's 'fake nostalgia' of period dramas

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In response to a question about Downton Abbey in a Radio Times interview, Loach said: "This rosy vision of the past, it's a choice broadcasters make. "'Don't bother your heads with what's going on now, just wallow in fake nostalgia'. It's bad history,...

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Sense & Sensibility (2008) on Numéro 23 tonight

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Mr Collins (Pride & Prejudice - 1995)

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The Night Manager on France 3 tonight

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Le Caire, au plus fort du Printemps arabe, Jonathan Pine, gérant de nuit d’un hôtel de luxe, reçoit un appel au secours de la sublime Sophie Alekan. Maîtresse du puissant mais dangereux propriétaire de l’hôtel, Sophie détient les preuves d’une vente d’armes...

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The Americans’ set design

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FX’s Cold War spy thriller The Americans, which returns Wednesday for its third season, benefits from the sort of reverse novelty that made early Mad Men so enchanting: It lets us remember (or imagine) what it was like to live in the days of phone booths,...

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The BBC and women

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Women at the BBC Woman's Hour 1946 The early years The BBC employed women from the very start; in fact Reith's first appointment was his personal secretary, Isabel Shields in January 1923. Although the majority of the Company's early female employees...

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The Radio Times

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The Radio Times The beginnings It all began in spring 1923, when John Reith, the BBC's first director-general, received an ultimatum from the Newspaper Publishers' Association warning him that if the corporation didn't pay a hefty fee, none of the NPA's...

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