Adapting a best-selling novel by the iconic JK Rowling must be difficult enough with so many fans to please, but when it's a story as complex and packed with characters as 2012 bestseller The Casual Vacancy, it must be near impossible. Even its star Keeley...
Read moreHilary Mantel's Booker prize-winning novel Wolf Hall tells the story of Henry VIII's righthand man Thomas Cromwell. Born the son of a lowly blacksmith, he climbs the ranks of Tudor society to become the King's trusted advisor – and BBC2 is dramatising...
Read moreLONDON — The BBC and the Weinstein Company have completed casting on Andrew Davies’ TV adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel “War and Peace,” which will star Paul Dano (“12 Years a Slave,” “There Will Be Blood”), Lily James (“Cinderella,” “Downton Abbey”)...
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In the City of London, behind the Bank of England, there is a little street called Austin Friars. Sober and narrow, it offers glimpse of a city garden, something sweetly natural at the granite heart of the establishment. The garden belongs to Drapers’...
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The attention to detail has been extraordinary, with a team of historians brought in to advise and a host of venerable locations used. Yet the BBC’s hotly anticipated new drama Wolf Hall could not have been made without one surprisingly low-tech accessory:...
Read moreNext week BBC2 will launch a major new drama series based on the Booker Prize-winning historical novels of Hilary Mantel. Wolf Hall will tell the gripping story of Thomas Cromwell, a ruthless commoner who inveigles his way into the court of Henry VIII...
Read moreIs House of Cards the greatest TV drama of the binge watching era? We might very well think that. Could you possibly comment? The Netflix original series has come top in a Radio Times list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows to Watch Now, the ultimate bucket...
Read moreBBC One, The Ink Factory and AMC today announced a co-production partnership for the television adaptation of John le Carré’s novel The Night Manager. Multiple Emmy® nominee Hugh Laurie (House) and Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers, War Horse, Midnight In...
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By Kasia Delgado 12 January 2015 Another Tuesday, another jam-packed edition of Radio Times magazine. Here's what's inside this week... -Hilary Mantel on why she turned Thomas Cromwell from villain to Tudor hero -Damian Lewis on how his Eton schooldays...
Read moreRichard E Grant and Coronation Street alumnus Natalie Gumede are to appear in ITV's Jekyll and Hyde adaptation. If you were going easy on the mulled wine, you may also recognise Gumede from the recent Doctor Who Christmas special, where she joined the...
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