The BBC, Classic-novel adaptations and other related things

Book adaptations: What Buyers Are Buzzing About

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The 2016 American Film Market gets underway today in Santa Monica and it’s looking like the frantic last-minute packaging has paid off for sales agents and buyers alike as there’s plenty of product on offer to feed hungry distribution mouths. There is...

80 years ago today the first British television programme was broadcast

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80 years ago today – at 3pm, to be precise – the first British television programme was broadcast. Of course, it wasn't TV as we know it. No Strictly, no X Factor... Back then there was just one channel, known as the BBC Television Service, and at the...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...