The BBC Trust's new Chair Rona Fairhead has said that BBC3's move online is "in and of itself good", although the Trust has yet to hear detailed proposals about how the channel's closure and move online will be accomplished. The BBC first announced plans...
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Read moreMinority Report star Samantha Morton has been cast in the BBC’s adaptation of Laurie Lee’s much-loved memoir Cider With Rosie. She will play the mother of the author Laurie Lee in the dramatisation of his memories of childhood in an idyllic Cotswold village...
Read more200 years ago today, Jane Austen's famous novel Pride and Prejudice was first published. Little did she know that 188 years later, she would inspire Renee Zelwegger's performance as the overweight, chain-smoking, big knicker-wearing comedy heroine Bridget...
Read moreIn the US, the series will be transmitted on PBS by GREAT PERFORMANCES, produced by THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET. Following an outstanding critical and audience reaction to the BAFTA Award-winning The Hollow Crown series in 2012, Neal Street Productions...
Read moreBoth actors have a strong connection to The Go-Between. Vanessa Redgrave’s father, Michael Redgrave, played the Older Leo in the first adaptation in 1971. Jim Broadbent appeared as an extra in the same adaptation in his first ever, uncredited, film role....
Read moreFor nine days in May 1926 the nation's industry was at a standstill in the General Strike. Many of the newspapers stopped printing, so there were few means of communication between authorities and the populace. But there was the tiny British Broadcasting...
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