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In French: les Anglais ont inventé la série télé politique

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Bien avant que les intrigues politiques ne deviennent l’un des genres dominants des séries à succès (House of Cards, Scandal, Borgen, The West Wing, voire Game of Thrones), les Anglais se passionnaient déjà pour les petites trahisons des parlementaires...

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BBC3's move online delayed

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Plans to move BBC3 online have been pushed back until 2016 because the consultation process is taking longer than anticipated. An interim decision on the future of the channel was expected as early as this month according to optimistic internal BBC assessments,...

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The BBC informs, educates and entertains – but in what order?

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In the early years of the 1930s, the sculptor Eric Gill was commissioned to carve an imageof a sower for the entrance hall of Broadcasting House. “Broadcast” is the old word for scattering seed: you cast it far and wide and good things grow. As a preacher...

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Hilary Mantel on Wolf Hall and plans for future novels

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Hilary Mantel jokes that writer’s block is the last thing that afflicts her. “I’m only afflicted by so many ideas,” the award-laden British author told The Daily Beast. “I don’t know what to do first.” Every day, Mantel comes armed with two notebooks...

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Tour of BBC Television Centre

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House of Cards author Michael Dobbs on taking his creation Stateside

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Michael Dobbs has walked 14 miles to meet for lunch. Next month the House of Cards author will trek 150 miles in seven days, raising money for a young man, the son of a school friend, left paralysed from the waist down by a rugby accident. Dobbs’s hair...

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In French: Stephen Knight (Peaky Blinders) "avec la BBC, tout s'est déroulé très facilement"

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Le créateur de la minisérie Peaky Blinders, dont Arte diffuse le début de la première saison jeudi 12 mars, a eu une totale liberté de la part de la BBC pour ce projet passion. Alors que vous écrivez des longs-métrages pour Hollywood depuis votre Oscar...

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Damian Lewis talks about playing Henry VIII in Wolf Hall

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The future of the BBC: will the licence fee be abolished?

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It is interesting that on the eve of the publication of the seismic DCMS select committee report on the future of the BBC, the Corporation’s director general Lord Hall was hosting a screening of the brilliant drama Wolf Hall. Perhaps it was no accident...

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In French: La machine de guerre de la BBC pour vendre ses productions

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Et soudain, John Cleese apparaît sur scène... Le père des mythiques « Monty Python » vient jouer l’amuseur en chef sur l’estrade de l’immense salle de concert du centre des congrès de Liverpool, pour la gigantesque soirée d’ouverture du BBC Showcase....

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