The BBC, Classic-novel adaptations and other related things

Good books, bad films

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Film producers cannot resist Ian McEwan’s novels. This week an adaptation of his 2014 novel The Children Act was released in cinemas, starring Emma Thompson as the high court judge Fiona Maye, who makes impossible decisions about family disputes while...

First look at BBC2’s Death and Nightingales

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Jamie Dornan gets to wear a beard and a hat in his latest role in the upcoming BBC2 drama, Death and Nightingales. Set in Fermanagh in the 1880s and based on Eugene McCabe’s 1992 novel, it also gave Dornan the opportunity to work once again in his native...

Autumn’s top 20 dramas

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2. Vanity Fair Gwyneth Hughes “Vanity Fair is a big, lavish, funny costume drama about the rollercoaster of people’s lives going right and going wrong, with William Makepeace Thackeray [played by Michael Palin, who starred in Hughes’s 2014 BBC1 drama...

L-M Miranda, J. McAvoy, R. Wilson Cast in BBC’s ‘His Dark Materials’

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Lin-Manuel Miranda, James McAvoy and Ruth Wilson have all been cast in the BBC’s upcoming series “His Dark Materials,” based on the bestselling fantasy novels by British author Philip Pullman. Oscar-winner Tom Hooper (“The King’s Speech”) will direct...

John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot

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The BBC and Amazon have offered the first glimpse of John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot in the forthcoming adaptation of The ABC Murders . The two broadcasters have also rounded out the cast with filming now underway. Shirley Henderson (Harry Potter), Kevin...

Jane Austen' s Sanditon to be adapted for TV for the first time

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Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon is set to be adapted for TV for the very first time. The romantic novelist's final incomplete novel has been commissioned by ITV and has been written by Andrew Davies, who also wrote the screenplay for the BAFTA-winning...

Les Misérables, BBC Press release

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First look Les Misérables images released Date: 15.07.2018 Last updated: 15.07.2018 Category: BBC One; Drama The first look of Les Misérables will premiere as part of a BBC drama trailer on BBC One around the World Cup final this Sunday. Ahead of this,...

The Long Song

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Hayley Atwell is to play an odious slave owner in the BBC adaptation of The Long Song, Andrea Levy’s novel set in a slave plantation. The Agent Carter star has been cast as Caroline Mortimer in the BBC1 three-part drama, owner of a 19th century Jamaican...

Emmys 2018

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Game of Thrones leads the nominations at this year's Emmy Awards, after being ineligible in 2017. The HBO series has 22 nominations in total, followed by sci-fi series Westworld and comedy show Saturday Night Live, both with 21. It is the first time in...

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Jane Austen‘s final, unfinished novel is being adapted by screenwriter Andrew Davies, who previously adapted the Colin Firth-starring Pride and Prejudice, into an ITV series. Telling the story of the ”joyously impulsive, spirited and unconventional Charlotte...