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Baby names inspired by Game of Thrones

Fantasy television series Game of Thrones a factor in new name choices They may sound more like characters in a historical drama than our next generation of children. But Millicent, Elvina and Alfred, along with other Olde English names, are making a...

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Jamaica Inn: filmed on location

Jamaica Inn: filmed on location

Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), Sean Harris (Harry Brown) and Matthew McNulty (The Paradise) star in the new BBC adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn (on tonight at 9pm on BBC1). The new three-part period drama, set in Cornwall, tells...

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Burn Gorman

Burn Gorman

Mr Guppy in Bleak House (2005) Mr Kish in The Hour (2011) Reverend Marley in Lark Rise to Candleford (2008) Karl, a man of the Night's Watch, in Game of Thrones (series 3 & 4) Hindley in Wuthering Heights (2009)

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In French: 14-18 et fiction à la télévision britannique

In French: 14-18 et fiction à la télévision britannique

21 avril 2014 , par Pierre Sérisier The Crimson Field – Les séries se tournent vers la Grande Guerre D e toutes les guerres qui ont meurtri le XXe siècle, la première est celle qui a été le moins souvent représentée dans les séries télé. La Grande Guerre...

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No feature film adaptation of Wolf Hall

An excerpt: " And there will, of course, be television versions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, to be screened – most likely – some time next year, adapted by Peter Straughan. She has been much less involved in these than in the plays. Straughan,...

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British TV adaptations can be successful in France

Jeudi 17 avril, France 4 a proposé le troisième et dernier épisode de la saison 3 de Sherlock en première partie de soirée. Librement adapté de « Charles Auguste Milverton » (The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton) de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, l’épisode,...

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Quirke: a new series for BBC One adapted by screenwriter Andrew Davies

Quirke (we never get to know his Christian name) is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue – a charismatic loner whose job takes him into unexpected places as he uncovers the secrets of sudden death in 1950s Dublin. It’s a rich and smouldering...

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Medieval Literature and Game of Thrones

The land of Westeros may seem far off for fans of “Game of Thrones,” but as season four of HBO’s successful show is gearing up to start on Sunday, Art Beat learned it may not be as distant as one might think. According to Brantley Bryant, an associate...

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The latest script from Andrew Davies

Made by Modern Television for the BBC to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth, the drama explores how Dylan Thomas, the creator of some of the most memorable lines in the English language, died in a smog-ridden New York on a November day in 1953,...

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