UK TV ratings round-up - data supplied by BARB BBC One's grand new adaptation of War and Peace topped the ratings over the weekend. Well, apart from Countryfile , of course. The drama starring Lily James and James Norton thrilled an average overnight...
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Beowulf expert and TV historian Michael Wood has a theory about Anglo-Saxons and television. “We live in a world where there’s a lot of terrifying and up-front violence, a world of Islamic State and horror going on around us,” he says. “That’s partly...
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War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy Lily James, Paul Dano and James Norton will bring Tolstoy's 19th century literary classic to life for the BBC in the New Year but book lovers argue that no TV adaptation can – or ever has – done justice to the Russian author's...
Read moreTV’s new teatime drama series Jekyll and Hyde, which pops up between the rugby and The X Factor on Sunday night, represents a big bet on the growing popularity of fantasy drama to attract viewers young and old. Using the lure of a famous phrase and Robert...
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William Hurt will play the role of mythical Danish king Hrothgar in ITV's Game of Thrones-style take on Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. The four-time Oscar-nominated US actor, more recently known for his performance in David Cronenburg's A History of Violence...
Read moreThe epic poem Beowulf is to be made into a 13-part drama by ITV. Described as a western set in the dark ages of Britain’s mythic past, the series will use locations in County Durham and Northumbria to represent the poem’s Scandinavian setting, and will...
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Hwæt! (Listen up) – Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf is headed to a screen near you. ITV are planning to turn the scourge of secondary school English classrooms into a Game of Thrones-style drama, described in a release as “an epic re-imagining of one of...
Read moreThe land of Westeros may seem far off for fans of “Game of Thrones,” but as season four of HBO’s successful show is gearing up to start on Sunday, Art Beat learned it may not be as distant as one might think. According to Brantley Bryant, an associate...
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