The BBC has signed up to make seven more Agatha Christie dramas following the success of Aidan Turner mystery And Then There Were None last Christmas. As RadioTimes.com exclusively revealed earlier this week, the Corporation wants more adaptations of...
Read moreThis Christmas, BBC1 is showing a two-part adaptation of Agatha Christie’s courtroom yarn The Witness for the Prosecution, starring Kim Cattrall, Toby Jones and Andrea Riseborough. And after last year’s successful Yuletide Christie drama And Then There...
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De notre correspondante à Londres, C’est un monument ! Et adapter à la télévision le chef-d’œuvre de Léon Tolstoï – la destinée de plusieurs familles de nobles russes pendant la campagne napoléonienne en 1812 – semblait une vraie gageure que la BBC a...
Read moreCountries that have popular, well-funded public service broadcasters encounter less rightwing extremism and corruption and have more press freedom, a report from the European Broadcasting Union has found. For the first time, an analysis has been done...
Read moreBenedict Cumberbatch is to produce and star in a new film production of the classic British novel Rogue Male. Michael Lesslie, who has also adapted Macbeth and Assassin's Creed, is to write the screenplay. Rogue Male was originally written by Geoffrey...
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The Birth of the Department Store: Émile Zola’s Au bonheur des dames and BBC’s The Paradise miniseries Michael Miller University of Miami The credits that precede each episode of the BBC’s The Paradise, tell us that the miniseries is based on Émile Zola’s...
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Victor Hugo novel Les Miserables is to be turned into a six-part BBC One drama by Bafta-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies, the BBC has confirmed. The "landmark adaptation" follows the success of Davies' recent dramatisation of Tolstoy's War and Peace....
Read moreWeinstein Television and the BBC are teaming up for a new version of Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables.” The six-part adaptation will be written by veteran scribe Andrew Davies, who most recently turned “War & Peace” into a six-part series for BBC and A&E...
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s they watch a suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his chest walk through a London that feels on the brink of political collapse, some viewers may suspect that the new TV adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel, The Secret Agent , has been tweaked...
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