The BBC, Classic-novel adaptations and other related things

BBC's Sherlock set to return to American TV screens next January

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A date has been set for the return of one of television’s most eagerly anticipated shows: Sherlock Season 3 will premiere on MASTERPIECE on PBS on Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 10pm, following the 9pm broadcast ofDownton Abbey . Benedict Cumberbatch (The...

Tracing Downton Abbey's lineage: the novel that inspired a TV hit

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Read the whole article : here Source: The Guardian, November 11th, 2013 Some highlights: Set in 1913, the novel comprises one day in the life of a large country house. The men are guffawing and shooting, the ladies are frostily lunching and servants dart...

Period drama and merchandising?

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We've all been there: you're settling down in your chair ready for the new season of Downton Abbey in the glow of your vanilla-scented M&S Downton candle after a relaxing bath using your Downton Abbey cream bath (fragranced with subtle tones of freesia...

Period Dramas are often accused of anachronisms. Period Literature can be guilty too.

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Whether we're reading the Booker prize books or watching Downton Abbey, we all love to catch out an author in an anachronism. Philip Hensher, in a piece on this year's Booker longlist, found problems in several books, and took particular issue with the...

Period Dramas are often accused of anachronisms. Period Literature can be guilty too.

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Whether we're reading the Booker prize books or watching Downton Abbey, we all love to catch out an author in an anachronism. Philip Hensher, in a piece on this year's Booker longlist, found problems in several books, and took particular issue with the...

Period Dramas are often accused of anachronisms. Period Literature can be guilty too.

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Whether we're reading the Booker prize books or watching Downton Abbey, we all love to catch out an author in an anachronism. Philip Hensher, in a piece on this year's Booker longlist, found problems in several books, and took particular issue with the...

Period Dramas are often accused of anachronisms. Period Literature can be guilty too.

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Whether we're reading the Booker prize books or watching Downton Abbey, we all love to catch out an author in an anachronism. Philip Hensher, in a piece on this year's Booker longlist, found problems in several books, and took particular issue with the...

Book Review: Making Masterpiece, Rebecca Eaton

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For more than twenty-five years and counting, Rebecca Eaton has presided over PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre, the longest running weekly prime time drama series in American history. From the runaway hits Upstairs, Downstairs and The Buccaneers, to the hugely...

Hollywood adapts Madame Bovary in Normandy

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“Downton Abbey” thesp Laura Carmichael, Olivier Gourmet and Logan Marshall-Green have joined the cast of “Madame Bovary,” which begins shooting Monday in Normandy, France. Mia Wasikowska stars in the title role along with Ezra Miller, Paul Giamatti, Rhys...

Persuasion BBC 1971

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