Sarah Phelps is used to treading in the footsteps of giants; her acclaimed screenplays include BBC adaptations of Dickens’s Great Expectations and Oliver Twist. However, when it came to dramatising JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy for the small screen,...
Read moreSarah Phelps, la scénariste de cette adaptation, a vendu la mèche : elle a tout de suite prévenu J.K. Rowling que la fin déprimante de son roman devait être changée, pour éviter un « désengagement » de l'audience. La chaîne a révélé que la fin du feuilleton...
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As the executive producer of BBC2’s critically-acclaimed Tudor epic Wolf Hall, Colin Callender is well placed to crow about the strength of television drama. The six-part series starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis has attracted rave reviews for its...
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What is it? Remember that Hilary Mantel lady? Y'know, the one with the lispy voice and all those book prizes who likes to air her opinions on the royal family? Well, the BBC have decided to turn her two Tudor novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies into...
Read moreA long, dreary Victorian novel, full of infinite British countryside and submissive women who dote on,their contemptuous husbands. What could possibly be interesting in a long, tedious text full of difficult language and a repetitive plot? Well, surprisingly,...
Read moreDans son essai consacré à la série Game of Thrones, Stéphane Rolet avance un concept original : plus qu'une traditionnelle saga de medieval fantasy, l'adaptation du cycle littéraire de George R. R. Martin ouvrirait en réalité la voie à un genre que l'on...
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