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• The Hollow Crown nominated for best mini series at the Critics' Choice Awards

  28 May 2014 ( #best mini-series, #Game of Thrones, #HBO, #PBS, #Sherlock, #The Hollow Crown )

  THE BROADCAST TELEVISION JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES NOMINATIONS FOR 4TH ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE TELEVISION AWARDS LOS ANGELES (May 28, 2014) – The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) today announced nominations for the 4th annual...

• Jamaica Inn: sound problems? Read the book!

  29 April 2014 ( #BBC, #BBC One, #Daphne du Maurier, #Emma Frost, #Jamaica Inn, #spoilers )

  If you struggled to hear what was going on on BBC1’s Jamaica Inn you were not alone – even Daphne du Maurier’s son could not understand a fair chunk of the dialogue in the dramatisation of his illustrious mother’s great tome. Kits Browning has revealed...

• Review: Jamaica Inn (BBC 2014)

  24 April 2014 ( #BBC, #BBC One, #Daphne du Maurier, #Emma Frost, #Jamaica Inn, #review )

  Jamaica Inn (BBC One) I’m not sure when you’ll be reading this. It might be just before the BBC’s new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn starts (21-23 April, 9pm) – or it might be after it has begun. So I’ll be careful. Some of you will know...

• Downton Abbey to be broadcast on the same day in the UK and the US?

  28 May 2014 ( #BBC, #Doctor Who, #Downton Abbey, #ITV, #Julian Fellowes, #PBS )

  No, Hugh Bonneville’s character won’t be changing his name to Time Lord Grantham, or going on an adventure in the Tardis (unless you count the time Bonneville himself starred in an episode of Doctor Who). But Downton Abbey could take a leaf out of the...

• Game of Thrones: George RR Martin's interview

  30 April 2014 ( #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #HBO, #Rolling Stone, #spoilers )

  Latest interview with George RR Martin for Rolling Stone magazine. Here is an interesting excerpt about the screen adaptation. The rest of the interview is full of BIG spoilers for the 4 series of the show, read the article at your own risk. Given the...

• Medieval Literature and Game of Thrones

  16 April 2014 ( #Beowulf, #Chaucer, #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #King Arthur, #Spoilers )

  The 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...

• Early New York Times review of Game of Thrones

  22 March 2014 ( #costume drama, #Game of Thrones, #gender, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #HBO )

  With the amount of money apparently spent on “Game of Thrones,” the fantasy epic set in a quasi-medieval somewhereland beginning Sunday on HBO, a show like “Mad Men” might have the financing to continue into the second term of a Malia Obama presidency....

• BBC Sherlock to feature in an exhibition about Sherlock Holmes

  08 January 2014 ( #Arthur Conan Doyle, #BBC, #BBC1, #Sherlock, #Sherlock Holmes, #The Museum of London )

  A Museum of London exhibition is to place Sherlock Holmes under the microscope, examining the traits that define Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 125-year-old creation as well as his intimate relationship with his native city of London. Visitors will see the...

• BBC announces new drama The Other Bennet Sister

  12 October 2024 ( #BBC, #Jane Austen, #Janice Hadlow, #Mary Bennet, #Pride & Prejudice, #spinoff )

  "The BBC's Pride and Prejudice will forever be a classic moment in television history, and it's incredibly exciting to return to Jane Austen's irresistible world and go even further than before - this time in the footsteps of The Other Bennet Sister,...

• France 2 va diffuser "Guerre et paix" à Noël

  07 December 2017 ( #Andrew Davies, #BBC, #France 2, #french Television, #Leo Tolstoy, #War & Peace )

  Certes, ce n'est pas la première adaptation de Guerre et paix sur le petit écran. Mais les adeptes des fictions historiques seront heureux de retrouver la mini-série britannique sur France 2, à partir du 25 décembre. Cette version est signée par Andrew...

• Do you speak Dothraki?

  20 April 2015 ( #David Peterson, #Dothraki, #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #HBO )

  « Notez qu'il n'y a pas de mot pour " orange" ; les Dothraki utiliseront tantôt "veltor"ou "virzeth" pour décrire la couleur, selon qu'elle tire davantage sur le jaune ou sur le rouge. » La mention figure en petit dans la section « couleurs » de Living...

• Hilary Mantel on Wolf Hall and plans for future novels

  09 April 2015 ( #BBC, #Broadway, #Hilary Mantel, #PBS, #plays, #Wolf Hall )

  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...

• The Hollow Crown nominated for best mini series at the Critics' Choice Awards

  28 May 2014 ( #best mini-series, #Game of Thrones, #HBO, #PBS, #Sherlock, #The Hollow Crown )

  THE BROADCAST TELEVISION JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES NOMINATIONS FOR 4TH ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE TELEVISION AWARDS LOS ANGELES (May 28, 2014) – The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) today announced nominations for the 4th annual...

• "You’re not going to get better TV by slashing budgets and patronising your audiences"

  10 September 2015 ( #BBC, #budget cuts, #investment, #ITV, #ratings )

  Since it first aired in 2010, Downton Abbey has become a phenomenal success, capturing the imaginations of millions of loyal viewers around the globe. But when it comes to an end later this year, star Hugh Bonneville hopes its legacy is more than impressive...

• "You’re not going to get better TV by slashing budgets and patronising your audiences"

  10 September 2015 ( #BBC, #budget cuts, #investment, #ITV, #ratings )

  Since it first aired in 2010, Downton Abbey has become a phenomenal success, capturing the imaginations of millions of loyal viewers around the globe. But when it comes to an end later this year, star Hugh Bonneville hopes its legacy is more than impressive...

• Bridgerton : le carton de la romance sentimentale au temps de la Régence

  12 June 2022 ( #Bridgerton, #Julia Quinn, #Netflix, #regency romance, #romance novel )

  Le succès de la série La Chronique des Bridgerton adaptée des livres de Julia Quinn – la première saison a été la plus regardée de l’histoire de Netflix avec 82 millions de spectateurs –, a confirmé l’engouement du public pour la romance sentimentale....

• The Queen's Gambit

  12 December 2020 ( #mini-series format, #Netflix, #Scott Frank, #The Queen's Gambit, #Walter Tevis )

  Read at the source : x Surely one of the biggest surprises of the year has been Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit , which Netflix says is their most-watched limited series ever . And now you can get a closer look at how the buzzworthy show was made in a new...

• Sherlock Holmes is too nice

  10 August 2020 ( #Conan Doyle, #Enola Holmes, #Nancy Springer, #Netflix, #Sherlock Holmes )

  London (CNN) Arthur Conan Doyle's estate is suing Netflix , among others, over its upcoming film "Enola Holmes" -- arguing that the show's depiction of Sherlock Holmes as kind, caring and respectful of women is a violation of the author's copyright. The...

• Tout sur le Doublage

  14 March 2020 ( #doublage, #structures comparées, #thème, #traduction, #version )

  Passionné par le doublage de films, Hugo Amizet, alias Misterfox , consacre sa chaîne YouTube à analyser des VF, dévoilant les coulisses de métiers finalement peu connus : comédien de doublage, bien sûr, mais aussi adaptateur ou directeur artistique....

• GRRM: the end of Game of Thrones on TV was a liberation

  18 August 2019 ( #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #GRRM, #HBO )

  “I don’t think [the TV series] was very good for me,” he said. “The very thing that should have speeded me up actually slowed me down. Every day I sat down to write and even if I had a good day … I’d feel terrible because I’d be thinking: ‘My God, I have...

• 7 Ways 'Bridget Jones' Diary' References 'Pride & Prejudice'

  21 July 2019 ( #Andrew Davies, #Bridget Jones, #Helen Fielding, #Jane Austen, #Pride & Prejudice )

  Bridget Jones' Diary writer Fielding told the BBC in a video interview that when she started writing her first novel about Bridget, she only had a collection of her original newspaper columns from the Independent featuring the character, but no plot....

• Good books, bad films

  24 August 2018 ( #Atonement, #BBC, #Ian McEwan, #On Chesil Beach, #The Child in Time )

  Film producers cannot resist Ian McEwan’s novels. This week an adaptation of his 2014 novel The Children Act was released in cinemas, starring Emma Thompson as the high court judge Fiona Maye, who makes impossible decisions about family disputes while...

• The Winds of Winter out in 2017?

  11 January 2017 ( #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #got, #HBO, #The Winds of Winter )

  The Winds of Winter could finally be blowing in our direction after a six-year wait, George RR Martin has hinted. Advertising On his LiveJournal blog, the ever-sprightly Game of Thrones author responded to a fan asking for his progress... "Not done yet,...

• Ken Loach bemoans TV's 'fake nostalgia' of period dramas

  18 October 2016 ( #Downton Abbey, #Ken Loach, #period drama, #Poldark, #Victoria )

  In response to a question about Downton Abbey in a Radio Times interview, Loach said: "This rosy vision of the past, it's a choice broadcasters make. "'Don't bother your heads with what's going on now, just wallow in fake nostalgia'. It's bad history,...

• GRRM teases the Game of Thrones prequel

  19 September 2016 ( #Game of Thrones, #GoT, #GRR Martin, #HBO, #prequel )

  re may only be a maximum of 15 episodes left to run in Game of Thrones, but fear not: there's a whole library of material waiting in the wings once seasons seven and eight are over. Speaking at last night's Emmy Awards, where Thrones became the most successful...