Who would have thought that the BBC’s dramatisation of The Night Manager, the very model of a modern spy story, should have had its genesis almost 70 years ago? In 1947, a 16-year-old schoolboy is sent to Paris by his father to collect a debt from the...
Read more“His height, his general hairiness, coupled with a gently expanding belly, suggested a grizzly bear,” wrote JK Rowling of Cormoran Strike. And while Tom Burke may have to strap on a prosthetic belly when he plays the war-damaged detective, otherwise he...
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Another week, another classic about illicit spooning at the dawn of the 20th century. Where the BBC’s fresh take on Lady Chatterley’s Lover hollowed out the original and injected its own up-to-date agitprop, The Go-Between(BBC One) kept faith with LP...
Read moreOn 31 August 1936 Elizabeth Cowell became the first female announcer. This was before the official launch of the television service on 2 November, when the BBC made test transmisssions for the RadiOlympia exhibition. Watch her original appearance, plus...
Read moreTÉLÉVISION - Prochainement, la chaîne du service public proposera aux téléspectateurs une mini-série portée par Tom Hiddleston et Hugh Laurie. France 3 s’apprête à créer l’événement en diffusant prochainement The Night Manager, une mini-série avec Tom...
Read moreBBC1 has commissioned a three-part adaptation of Jessie Burton’s haunting period thriller The Miniaturist. The new series is likely to air in 2017 and has been adapted by the scriptwriter John Brownlow, who wrote the Gwyneth Paltrow film Ted and Sylvia....
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The very first official broadcast on British Television is being recreated by the BBC exactly 80 years after it made history. Television's Opening Night: How the Box was Born will re-stage the event that originally took place at Alexandra Palace on 2nd...
Read moreEleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries is to be made into a BBC drama series. The six-part adaptation, also written by Catton, is a Victorian mystery tale set during the New Zealand gold rush. The New Zealand author became the...
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