The BBC, Classic-novel adaptations and other related things

BBC celebrates 20 years online

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The Networking Club was a not-for-profit subscription website offering early social networking, bulletin board features and information about the BBC. It went live to coincide with the first episode of the educational TV series, The Net. A series of individual...

The Musketeers return for a second series on the BBC

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The first series premiered in January this year and proved a successful addition to the channel’s line-up, with a series average of 6.3 million across the 10 episodes, and the opening episode being the BBC’s third highest drama launch in the past decade....

Jamaica Inn

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Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic novel Jamaica Inn has been adapted by Emma Frost (The White Queen, Consuming Passion) and directed by BAFTA-winning director Philippa Lowthorpe (Call The Midwife, Five Daughters). It has been produced by Origin Pictures...

In French: B. Cumberbatch sera Richard III pour la BBC

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L'interprète de Sherlock rejoint la deuxième saison de The Hollow Crown, l'adaptation des pièces historiques de Shakespeare. Le futur sera shakespearien ou ne sera pas pourBenedict Cumberbatch. Après avoir annoncé qu'il serait Hamlet sur les planches...

Jamaica Inn - BBC teaser trailer

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'Game of Thrones' gets record ratings

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All hail HBO’s Game of Thrones. The fourth-season premiere of the fantasy delivered the show’s biggest audience yet: 6.6 million viewers. That makes Sunday’s Thrones HBO’s most-watched program since The Sopranos’ series finale in 2007. Two replays of...

Andrew Davies wants to cast Scarlett Johansson in War and Peace

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Writer Andrew Davies wants a mega Hollywood star to take one of the lead roles in his upcoming BBC2 adaptation of Tolstoy’s 1869 classic novel War and Peace: Scarlett Johansson. The veteran writer, once dubbed TV’s Mr Sex for his racy adaptations of period...

HBO GoT Will Probably Catch Up With G.R.R. Martin, and That’s Just Fine

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I love HBO’s Game of Thrones. I love George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, the books on which the fantasy series is based. And unlike some screen adaptations of books, the two seem to love each other. The series, within the constraints of time,...

George RR Martin talks to BBC Radio 4

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Source: BBC Radio 4 Today Programme (April 7th, 2014) x Game of Thrones writer George RR Martin discusses the changing attitude of television towards fantasy Game of Thrones author George RR Martin: TV network "makes final decisions" "The show is very...

Confirmed: Cumberbatch to portray Richard III for BBC2

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Cumberbatch and Freeman are the latest in a line of distinguished actors to tackle the role.IT IS the mysterious case of Sherlock Holmes and their parallel careers: Benedict Cumberbatch is to star as Richard III in a television film while Martin Freeman...