Because there are certain things you can’t get away with saying or doing in ad-supported TV, the medium has often used genre stories, like fantasy and science fiction, to say those things covertly. And another fertile ground for hidden meanings is the...
Read moreBBC1 has commissioned a three-part adaptation of Jessie Burton’s haunting period thriller The Miniaturist. The new series is likely to air in 2017 and has been adapted by the scriptwriter John Brownlow, who wrote the Gwyneth Paltrow film Ted and Sylvia....
Read moreJoe Weisberg and Joel Fields had never met before they were teamed up to write and produce The Americans for FX five years ago. Now, they continue to marvel at the similarities in their working styles and sense of aesthetics. In a wide-ranging conversation...
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The very first official broadcast on British Television is being recreated by the BBC exactly 80 years after it made history. Television's Opening Night: How the Box was Born will re-stage the event that originally took place at Alexandra Palace on 2nd...
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To truly understand the phrase "controlled chaos," you should consider crashing the set of a television show. It's my first day on the set of The Americans , FX's stellar Cold War spy drama. On this frigid November morning, I step into a nondescript Brooklyn...
Read moreEleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries is to be made into a BBC drama series. The six-part adaptation, also written by Catton, is a Victorian mystery tale set during the New Zealand gold rush. The New Zealand author became the...
Read moreHarry Potter and the Cursed Child writer Jack Thorne is joining new TV drama Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K Dick. The 10-part Channel 4 and Sony Pictures Television series, based on Dick's short stories, will star Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston....
Read moreThe BBC has signed up to make seven more Agatha Christie dramas following the success of Aidan Turner mystery And Then There Were None last Christmas. As RadioTimes.com exclusively revealed earlier this week, the Corporation wants more adaptations of...
Read moreThis Christmas, BBC1 is showing a two-part adaptation of Agatha Christie’s courtroom yarn The Witness for the Prosecution, starring Kim Cattrall, Toby Jones and Andrea Riseborough. And after last year’s successful Yuletide Christie drama And Then There...
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