Wolf Hall is heading to a television (tuned to BBC2) near you very soon - so what better way to prepare yourself for the screen adaptation of Hilary Mantel's award-winning novels than, well, er, a trailer... Charting the meteoric rise of Thomas Cromwell...
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When the BBC made the decision to dramatise Mapp and Lucia, EF Benson’s series of comic novels that parody the snobbery and pretensions of the upper-middle-classes in 1930s small-town Britain, the only possible place they could film the series was in...
Read moreFor those, like me, who have eagerly devoured Hilary Mantel’s door-stopping Booker-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the experience was like being taken directly into the world of candlelit Tudor intrigue and the minds of its people. We...
Read morePeter Kosminsky, the director of BBC2’s lavish adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall books, has delivered an impassioned defence of the BBC. Speaking on the same day that the Corporation set out its plans for moving BBC3 online – a decision which the...
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Mark Gatiss is looking conspiratorial in the latest pictures to be released for BBC Tudor drama Wolf Hall. The cast photos for the BBC1 adaptation feature the Sherlock star in fur-lined black robes and a rather peculiarly-shaped hat. Gatiss plays Thomas...
Read moreJohn Plunkett The BBC will adapt the crime novels written by JK Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, its second collaboration with the Harry Potter author. The Cuckoo’s Calling, the first book to feature private eye Cormoran Strike, became a...
Read moreThe BBC is thrashing out ideas for a new £2bn theme park in Kent which could turn popular dramas such as Doctor Who and Sherlock into major attractions. The BBC’s commercial arm BBC Worldwide has signed a preliminary agreement over the use of its shows...
Read moreBBC director of television Danny Cohen has called on viewers to appreciate what the Corporation delivers before it is too late. In an address to journalists at the BBC press Christmas drinks on Wednesday night, Cohen said that the organisation is at a...
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Damian Lewis as Henry VIII BBC2’s six-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies has been filmed and the BBC is privately convinced that the drama is going to be a hit. In fact, such is their expectation that the...
Read moreWhen is the wet shirt moment? "There isn't going to be one," says Andrew Davies. "There are some very tender glances in Little Dorrit, but there is no 'Phwoar!'" Can this be true? A straight take on Charles Dickens from the man who put the cor blimey...
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