The BBC, Classic-novel adaptations and other related things

Starz's American Gods will expand female roles and treat religion seriously

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Starz’s American Gods might be one of the most anticipated TV shows since Game of Thrones, thanks to a similarly intense fanbase surrounding the Neil Gaiman novel it’s based on and an incredibly deep cast — which includes (but isn’t limited to) Ian McShane,...

Zola's Au Bonheur des dames and the BBC's The Paradise

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The Birth of the Department Store: Émile Zola’s Au bonheur des dames and BBC’s The Paradise miniseries Michael Miller University of Miami The credits that precede each episode of the BBC’s The Paradise, tell us that the miniseries is based on Émile Zola’s...

Les Misérables on the BBC

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Victor Hugo novel Les Miserables is to be turned into a six-part BBC One drama by Bafta-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies, the BBC has confirmed. The "landmark adaptation" follows the success of Davies' recent dramatisation of Tolstoy's War and Peace....

Weinstein TV and the BBC Team Up For ‘Les Miserables’

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Weinstein Television and the BBC are teaming up for a new version of Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables.” The six-part adaptation will be written by veteran scribe Andrew Davies, who most recently turned “War & Peace” into a six-part series for BBC and A&E...

The Secret Agent: a timely BBC adaptation

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s they watch a suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his chest walk through a London that feels on the brink of political collapse, some viewers may suspect that the new TV adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel, The Secret Agent , has been tweaked...

Love & Friendship - trailer

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Britain's nostalgia industry

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Ron Howard had a theory about why the US sitcom Happy Days was such a hit. The Oscar-winning director, who played Richie Cunningham in the show, argued that central to its appeal was that it was set in the 1950s, before Vietnam, drugs and hippies, when...

Nerd HQ 2016: Sherlock panel

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Sherlock Series 4 - Official teaser

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31 Books adapted in 2016

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31 Great Books That Are Getting the Movie Treatment in 2016 POPSUGAR - July 22, 2016 by SHANNON VESTAL ROBSON