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• "A Christie for Christmas”

  22 August 2016 ( #Agatha Christie, #BBC, #BBC One, #Christmas, #the Queen of Crime, #The Witness for the Prosecution )

  This 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...

• Game of Thrones: the new book-free status

  17 May 2016 ( #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #GRRM, #HBO, #spoilers? )

  "You never know what's going to happen tomorrow," actor Kristofer Hivju tells THR about the show's new book-free status quo. Twenty years ago this year, George R.R. Martin released A Game of Thrones, the first novel in a sprawling series chronicling the...

• Why American Gods is perfect for TV

  04 June 2016 ( #American Gods, #cable, #Emily Browning, #Gillian Anderson, #Ian McShane, #Neil Gaiman )

  The news that Neil Gaiman’s seminal novel American Gods is finally greenlit by US network Starz for a TV series (after years stuck in development) doesn’t surprise me at all. If anything, I’m surprised it hasn’t happened sooner to a truly great book too...

• The BBC has greenlit an adaptation of 'Howards End'

  01 January 2016 ( #Agrégation, #BBC, #CAPES, #Concours, #EM Forster, #Howards End )

  BBC One has greenlit a long-gestating miniseries adaptation of Howards End, based on the classic EM Forster novel which was turned into an Oscar-winning Merchant Ivory feature in 1992. The four-part drama is produced by Colin Callender’s Playground in...

• BBC3 will go off air in March

  26 November 2015 ( #BBC, #BBC trust, #BBC3, #closure, #online, #younger audience )

  BBC3 will cease to exist as a television channel in March after the BBC Trust formally approved plans to close it. No new programming will air on the channel from the end of January, when the station effectively becomes a promotional tool for the online...

• Dickensian: An ambitious re-working of the world of Dickens for BBC One

  21 December 2015 ( #BBC, #BBC One, #Dickens, #Dickensian, #Miss Havisham, #re-working )

  With a wealth of back stories inspired by the novels, Dickensian delivers fast-paced storylines with surprising twists and turns. As the snow falls on Market Street this Christmas Eve, the festive hustle and bustle is hushed as the body of wealthy brewer,...

• Best Shakespeare TV & Film Adaptations

  06 November 2015 ( #Henry V, #Macbeth, #Much Ado about Nothing, #Richard II, #Shakespeare, #the Hollow Crown )

  William Shakespeare is probably the greatest playwright ever. Seriously. From the heartbreak of his tragedies to the hilarity of his comedies, that man did it all. He broke your heart in Macbeth, and then made you cackle in Much Ado About Nothing. He...

• Sherlock Special Trailer

  21 October 2015 ( #Arthur Conan Doyle, #BBC, #Modern Sherlock, #Sherlock, #trailer, #Victorian Sherlock )

  We're only two months away now from the 90-minute Sherlock Christmas special and Amanda Abbington is bursting to talk about the film, which appears to show our heroes in Victorian dress. But of course she can't. She admits, though, that it has been hard...

• The Inside Story on the Sherlock Special

  06 August 2015 ( #BBC, #BBC1, #Conan Doyle, #Sherlock, #Sherlock Holmes, #Sherlock reimagined )

  The popularity of BBC1's reimagined Sherlock Holmes still comes as a shock to the drama's co-creator Mark Gatiss – "it's just astonishing... extraordinary" – but when the detective (finally) returns to telly screens, he won't be quite as fans know him....

• GRRM: "The Show, the Books" as in 'two different things'

  18 May 2015 ( #Books vs. TV, #D&D, #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #HBO, #the butterfly effect )

  Excerpt: "I have a lot of fans asking me for comment. Let me reiterate what I have said before. How many children did Scarlett O'Hara have? Three, in the novel. One, in the movie. None, in real life: she was a fictional character, she never existed. The...

• Why George RR Martin said 'No' to Hollywood.

  09 June 2015 ( #Cinema vs. TV, #D&D, #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #HBO )

  Ever wondered why epic fantasy series Game of Thrones headed to the small screen rather than the cinema? Well, wonder no more because writer George RR Martin (who wrote the book series the TV show is based on) has told the tale of why he turned down Hollywood....

• In French: Le règne du Trône de Fer (france inter)

  18 April 2015 ( #capitalism, #D&D, #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #HBO )

  Game of Thrones, c'est l'adaptation à l'écran d'une série de romans écrits par George Raymond Richard Martin depuis 1996. Il y a quelques années, l'auteur de cette saga considérait totalement impossible l'adaptation de son aventure à l'écran. Aujourd'hui,...

• Hannibal on NBC is the best Thomas Harris adaptation to date.

  08 June 2015 ( #Hannibal, #NBC, #Red Dragon, #SIlence of the Lambs, #spoilers, #Thomas Harris )

  There are five movies based on the fictional world that Thomas Harris, over the course of four novels, has populated with FBI agents, colorful serial killers, and, most importantly, the cannibal psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter. One is a cult classic ( Manhunter...

• What is Julian Fellowes adapting next?

  27 April 2015 ( #adaptation, #Anthony Trollope, #Doctor Thorne, #Downton Abbey, #ITV, #Julian Fellowes )

  Julian Fellowes is by no means putting his feet up once Downton Abbey* comes to an end later this year. Not only does the creator of the award-winning drama have American series The Gilded Age to occupy his time, he's also signed up to adapt Anthony Trollope...

• The Real Sherlock Holmes (documentary)

  26 April 2015 ( #arte, #Arthur Conan Doyle, #detective stories, #gothic literature, #popular culture, #Sherlock Holmes )

  Inventé par sir Arthur Conan Doyle en 1887, Sherlock Holmes est devenu l'archétype du détective privé. Ce héros atypique, doté d'une mémoire prodigieuse et capable de démêler les mystères les plus improbables, apparaît aujourd'hui comme un véritable précurseur....

• George RR Martin won't write for GoT series 6

  31 March 2015 ( #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #HBO, #script, #The Winds of Winter )

  George RR Martin has decided not to write a script for Game of Thrones' sixth season. The man behind the book series HBO's hit fantasy drama is based on usually pens a script per season, but says he "cannot afford" the time away from the next instalment,...

• House of Cards author Michael Dobbs on taking his creation Stateside

  13 March 2015 ( #Andrew Davies, #BBC, #House of Cards, #Michael Dobbs, #Netflix, #remake )

  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...

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

  27 February 2015 ( #arte, #BBC, #BBC Worldwide, #France, #Sherlock, #Wolf Hall )

  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....

• Wolf Hall: trailer

  29 December 2014 ( #2015, #BBC, #BBC2, #Hilary Mantel, #trailer, #Wolf Hall )

  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...

• Little Dorrit on arte, starting November 27th

  27 November 2014 ( #Andrew Davies, #arte, #BBC, #Charles Dickens, #John Lunn, #Little Dorrit )

  Le scénariste Andrew Davies est l’adaptateur hors pair des grands classiques anglais du XIXe siècle, de Jane Austen à Dickens en passant par George Eliot. Il a su préserver avec La petite Dorrit le caractère foisonnant du roman-fleuve de Charles Dickens...

• Andrew Dickens: What the Dickens!

  29 November 2014 ( #Andrew Davies, #BBC, #Bleak House, #Charles Dickens, #Little Dorrit, #Pride & Prejudice )

  When 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...

• Cast announcement for Cider with Rosie

  16 October 2014 ( #BBC, #BBC1, #Cider with Rosie, #Laurie Lee, #Philippa Lowthorpe, #Samantha Morton )

  Minority Report star Samantha Morton has been cast in the BBC’s adaptation of Laurie Lee’s much-loved memoir Cider With Rosie. She will play the mother of the author Laurie Lee in the dramatisation of his memories of childhood in an idyllic Cotswold village...

• Andrew Davies about that infamous wet shirt scene

  12 July 2014 ( #andrew davies, #colin firth, #house of cards, #jane austen, #michael dobbs, #pride & prejudice )

  When Andrew Davies first wrote the script for Pride and Prejudice, he had Colin Firth's Mr Darcy leaping into the lake entirely naked – a detail that, much to the chagrin of female viewers, never quite materialised... But the Bafta-winning screenwriter...

• The BBC to adapt a bestseller

  09 September 2014 ( #BBC, #BBC One, #bestseller, #Jessica Brown Findlay, #Sadie Jones, #The Outcast )

  Actor Greg Wise and former Downton Abbey star Jessica Brown Findlay will feature among the cast. Jones' debut won the Costa First Novel Award in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, now known as the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction. Filming...

• The Queen's Guards perform the Game of Thrones theme in London

  21 July 2014 ( #Game of Thrones, #GoT, #HBO, #London, #Queen's Guards, #soundtrack )

  Tourists were treated to a rendition of the Game of Thrones theme song by the Queen’s Guard. During the changing of the guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, June 24 the Irish Guards regiment performed the now familiar score, delighting tourists...