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• The Night Manager sur France 3

  30 August 2016 ( #BBC, #BBC One, #France 3, #John Le Carré, #The Night Manager )

  TÉLÉVISION - Prochainement, la chaîne du service public proposera aux téléspectateurs une mini-série portée par Tom Hiddleston et Hugh Laurie. France 3 s’apprête à créer l’événement en diffusant prochainement The Night Manager, une mini-série avec Tom...

• More Agatha Christie Dramas on the BBC

  24 August 2016 ( #Agatha Christie, #BBC, #Death Comes At the End, #Ordeal By Innocence, #The ABC Murders )

  The BBC has signed up to make seven more Agatha Christie dramas following the success of Aidan Turner mystery And Then There Were None last Christmas. As RadioTimes.com exclusively revealed earlier this week, the Corporation wants more adaptations of...

• Weinstein TV and the BBC Team Up For ‘Les Miserables’

  30 July 2016 ( #Andrew Davies, #BBC, #Harvey Weinstein, #Les isérables, #Victor Hugo )

  Weinstein Television and the BBC are teaming up for a new version of Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables.” The six-part adaptation will be written by veteran scribe Andrew Davies, who most recently turned “War & Peace” into a six-part series for BBC and A&E...

• A new Agatha Christie adaptation on the BBC?

  22 June 2016 ( #Agatha Christie, #And then there were none, #BBC, #Sarah Phelps, #The Witness for the Prosecution )

  D’un point de vue critique ou de celui du public, l’adaptation de And Then There Were None — aka Les 10 petits nègres — a été un succès sur BBC One cet hiver. Puisque la chaine a acquit le catalogue des œuvres d’Agatha Christie (non Poirot et Marple),...

• The BBC to adapt Les Misérables

  21 July 2016 ( #Andrew Davies, #BBC, #BBC1, #Les Misérables, #Victor Hugo )

  Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is coming to the small screen - thanks to a new six-part drama from the BBC. Andrew Davies will adapt the 19th-century novel, set against the epic backdrop of France at a time of civil unrest. In February, Davies stated his...

• How Brexit will affect Game of Thrones.

  25 June 2016 ( #Brexit, #EU funding, #Game of Thrones, #HBO, #Outlander )

  Will the UK’s vote to leave the European Union affect one of the biggest American series, Game of Thrones ? The fantasy drama’s primary filming location is Northern Ireland — which, being part of the UK, also is set to depart the EU — with additional...

• Impressive ratings for the first episode of War and Peace

  04 January 2016 ( #BBC, #Beowulf, #ITV, #ratings, #War and Peace )

  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...

• Trailer: And then There Were None

  15 December 2015 ( #Agatha Christie, #And Then There Were None, #BBC, #BBC One, #trailer )

  La BBC propose pendant les vacances de Noël une nouvelle adaptation du célèbre roman d’Agatha Christie, dont voici les premières images. La vénérable chaîne anglaise soigne ses téléspectateurs en cette période de festivités. En attendant Sherlock début...

• Dickens with a soapy twist

  26 December 2015 ( #BBC, #Charles Dickens, #David Copperfield, #Dickensian, #Oliver Twist )

  Claire T omalin thinks she was seven when she was hooked by Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield . “Dickens has this extraordinary immediacy that children love,” she says. “ David Copperfield takes children seriously – their mentality, their imagination...

• Macbeth (Retold) - BBC 2005

  06 November 2015 ( #BBC, #Macbeth, #Macbeth retold, #Shakespeare, #Steve Moffat )

  Excerpts The story: Career chef Joe Macbeth is passionate about food. He runs Duncan Docherty's kitchen, famed for down-to-earth meat dishes that have made Docherty's restaurant famous. His kitchen crew love him, but they always remember that he's the...

• Partners in Crime

  26 July 2015 ( #Agatha Christie, #BBC, #BBC1, #review, #The Queen of Crime )

  It’s Agatha Christie – David Walliams style. Yes, BBC1 brings the great crime writer back to UK screens with a new drama series starring (and executive-produced by) the Britain’s Got Talent judge and Little Britain star. To say he has camped it up would...

• Too close to the source novel?

  29 June 2015 ( #complexity, #Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, #Peter Harness, #source material, #Susanna Clarke )

  Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell has reached its conclusion, with Eddie Marsan and Bertie Carvel’s rival magicians finally coming to the end of their journey in a smorgasbord of fairy legend, period detail and peerless character acting. The series has...

• "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...

• Harvey Weinstein and the BBC hint at future collaborations

  08 October 2015 ( #BBC, #Harvey Weinstein, #Leo Tolstoy, #mipcom, #War and Peace )

  Akin to the previews The Weinstein Company does of its Oscar-caliber movies during the Cannes Film Festival, Harvey Weinstein held a special buyers-only screening of 20 minutes of footage from upcoming miniseries War And Peace tonight at Mipcom. In attendance...

• First (19th century) meeting between Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson?

  08 November 2015 ( #BBC, #Conan Doyle, #first meeting, #Sherlock, #trailer )

  Stuff Christmas. Each passing day means we're just a Victorian whisker away from the Sherlock New Year's Day Special. In time honoured tradition, the BBC keep releasing just enough clues to keep us guessing. A new teaser for the Victorian special apparently...

• Wolf Hall on the shopping list of representatives of the world’s broadcast networks

  04 July 2015 ( #BBC, #BBC2, #global sales, #Hilary Mantel, #Wolf Hall )

  Intrigue, showmanship and high stakes negotiation are central to the plot of Wolf Hall – and also to the annual television sales event that launches in Liverpool next weekend. With millions of pounds at their disposal, representatives of the world’s broadcast...

• The Outcast: new BBC adaptation

  15 July 2015 ( #BBC, #BBC One, #Sadie Jones, #spoilers, #The Outcast )

  There’s a wonderful serendipity about Sadie Jones’s novel The Outcast being adapted for BBC1. She originally wrote it as a screenplay and only turned it into a book after failing to get it made. The novel went on to become a bestseller and win the Costa...

• Defending the licence fee

  14 June 2015 ( #BBC, #HBO, #Hilary Mantel, #Licence fee, #Wolf Hall )

  Colin Callender, the executive producer of BBC1 drama Wolf Hall, has said that the BBC’s funding must be increased if the institution is to survive. Speaking to RadioTimes.com on the eve of the premiere of his long-awaited Tudor drama Wolf Hall starring...

• Modern adaptation of Peter Pan

  14 May 2015 ( #ITV, #JM Barrie, #modern adaptation, #Peter and Wendy, #Peter Pan )

  Over a century after he made his stage debut, the boy who never grew up is as popular as ever. Not only is a Peter Pan prequel in the pipeline in Hollywood; ITV has just started filming a modern adaptation of J M Barrie's classic tale starring Paloma...

• In French: top ratings for The Casual Vacancy on the BBC

  18 February 2015 ( #BBC, #JK Rowling, #ratings, #Sarah Phelps, #The Casual Vacancy )

  L'adaptation du roman de JK Rowling, diffusée sur la BBC, a enregistré 6,6 millions de téléspectateurs, pour son premier épisode, présenté dimanche soir. A Casual Vacancy a ainsi dépassé les 27,5 % d'audience, soit un record pour l'horaire auquel il a...

• 'GRRM revolutionised how people think about fantasy'

  10 April 2015 ( #A Song of Ice and Fire, #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #HBO, #spoilers )

  George RR Martin doesn’t, revealed the actor Peter Dinklage this week, tend to stop by the set of Game of Thrones any more. “He used to. He’s busy lately. He’s writing those books,” Dinklage, who plays the Machiavellian Tyrion Lannister in the hit television...

• War & Peace: casting news

  18 January 2015 ( #andrew davies, #BBC, #leo tolstoy, #war & peace, #Weinstein Company )

  LONDON — The BBC and the Weinstein Company have completed casting on Andrew Davies’ TV adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel “War and Peace,” which will star Paul Dano (“12 Years a Slave,” “There Will Be Blood”), Lily James (“Cinderella,” “Downton Abbey”)...

• In French: the book's ending is too depressing for TV

  12 February 2015 ( #BBC, #JK Rowling, #The Casual Vacancy, #the ending is to depressing, #trailer )

  Sarah Phelps, la scénariste de cette adaptation, a vendu la mèche : elle a tout de suite prévenu J.K. Rowling que la fin déprimante de son roman devait être changée, pour éviter un « désengagement » de l'audience. La chaîne a révélé que la fin du feuilleton...

• In French: Game of Thrones, une saga de Renaissance fantasy

  29 January 2015 ( #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #HBO, #spoilers )

  Dans son essai consacré à la série Game of Thrones, Stéphane Rolet avance un concept original : plus qu'une traditionnelle saga de medieval fantasy, l'adaptation du cycle littéraire de George R. R. Martin ouvrirait en réalité la voie à un genre que l'on...

• Two adaptations named the must-watch on demand shows of 2015

  13 January 2015 ( #BBC, #House of Cards, #Netflix, #on-demand TV, #Sherlock )

  Is House of Cards the greatest TV drama of the binge watching era? We might very well think that. Could you possibly comment? The Netflix original series has come top in a Radio Times list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows to Watch Now, the ultimate bucket...