The BBC, Classic-novel adaptations and other related things

Winds of Winter out in March?

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Winds of Winter, the latest book in George RR Martin's Game of Thrones series, is due out on 9th March 2017 – according to a listing on Amazon France. The author was thought to still be writing book six of A Song of Ice and Fire, having said on his blog...

Tim Burton on Alice Through the Looking Glass

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The King's Speech tonight on TV.

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The Go-Between - Review

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Another week, another classic about illicit spooning at the dawn of the 20th century. Where the BBC’s fresh take on Lady Chatterley’s Lover hollowed out the original and injected its own up-to-date agitprop, The Go-Between(BBC One) kept faith with LP...

Jim Broadbent

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Jim Broadbent appearing in a series of adaptations: Colin Jones (Bridget Jones) Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky (War & Peace) Tony Webster (The Sense of an Ending) Old Leo (The Go-Between) Chief Inspector Heat (The Secret Agent) Astérix: The Mansions of the...

Elizabeth Cowell first female TV announcer 31 Aug 1936

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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...

WATCH “HOWARDS END”—THEN READ IT

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This 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;...

The Night Manager sur France 3

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TÉLÉVISION - 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...

The Americans - soundtrack of the 80s

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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...

The Americans - the Best Period Piece on TV

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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...