The BBC, Classic-novel adaptations and other related things

A Defense of Not Reading the Books First

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There is an unspoken (or, sometimes, very loudly spoken) hierarchy in fandoms for TV shows like Game of Thrones : book readers trump non-book readers every time. The implication is that “real” fans read the source material, while casual fans merely watch...

Jane Austen Behind Closed Doors

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Conversation with Dame Maggie Smith

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Little Women is headed to the small screen.

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'Call the Midwife' writer Heidi Thomas will pen the three-part mini. Little Women is headed to the small screen. PBS' Masterpiece and BBC are teaming on a three-part adaptation of the beloved Louisa May Alcott book, it was announced Thursday. Originally...

Trailer for The Cuckoo's Calling

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Dracula

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The Sherlock team are reuniting on a new version of the classic horror story Dracula, RadioTimes.com can confirm. Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss are due to begin work on a series of BBC specials based on the classic 1897 novel by Bram Stoker in which the...

Video: Jane Austen's life and works

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How to adapt Jane Austen by Andrew Davies

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Democrats save arts funding for NPR and PBS

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Democrats have saved arts funding under threat from Donald Trump, including money for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR). Both houses of congress are expected to vote on the spending bill to keep the government funded...

TV is rewriting the book on how to adapt novels

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t is a truth as old as Hollywood itself, that the book is always better than the movie. The difficulty of compressing a novel into two hours means that adaptations such as Hitchcock’s Psycho, Spielberg’s Jaws and Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers are among...