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• "Moby Dick" TV Mini Series (2011) Trailer

  27 March 2014 ( #Ethan Hawke, #Gillian Anderson, #Herman Melville, #John Hurt, #Moby Dick )

  A "reimagined" version of Melville's book, Moby Dick was shot primarily in Shelburne , Nova Scotia , during late 2009. Costing US$25 million, it is Tele München's most expensive production to date. This adaptation gives Ahab a wife named Elizabeth, although...

• The future of the BBC: will the licence fee be abolished?

  27 February 2015 ( #BBC, #Dr Who, #licence fee, #Sherlock, #Wolf Hall )

  It is interesting that on the eve of the publication of the seismic DCMS select committee report on the future of the BBC, the Corporation’s director general Lord Hall was hosting a screening of the brilliant drama Wolf Hall. Perhaps it was no accident...

• Sherlock and Doctor Who named as BBC's two global successes

  21 July 2014 ( #BBC, #detective drama, #Doctor Who, #Sherlock, #Steven Moffat )

  Fans in France, Germany, Russia and on both sides of the Atlantic may already know it, but Sherlock is now officially a global phenomenon. The BBC detective drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman was sold to more broadcasters worldwide...

• 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),...

• 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,...

• Why are fantasy world accents British?

  03 May 2014 ( #British accents, #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #HBO )

  A lot of British people will not have heard of Game of Thrones. This tale of family strife and royal intrigue in a fantasy world called Westeros has been a big hit on HBO in the US. Millions watched the first series, justifying the movie-like budget poured...

• The BBC, a “uniquely precious institution”

  12 December 2014 ( #BBC, #BBC3, #Hilary Mantel, #licence fee, #Wolf Hall )

  Peter 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...

• 'fansubbing' en débat à Séries Mania 2014

  02 May 2014 ( #ATAA, #fansubbing, #Séries mania, #sous-titrage, #traduction )

  L'organisation du festival a eu l'excellente idée de confronter deux mondes qui, avec la circulation des contenus et la démocratisation des outils, tendent de plus en plus à s'affronter : les professionnels et les amateurs. Aujourd'hui, il suffit d'un...

• 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...

• The Musketeers to return for a second series

  09 February 2014 ( #Alexandre Dumas, #BBC, #BBC One, #The Musketeers )

  The BBC are so chuffed with their Musketeers remake, they've already ordered a second series of the new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic tales. After just three episodes of the swashbuckling ten-part drama, bosses have approved the return of all...

• How different was BBC1's The Night Manager to its original book?

  18 September 2016 ( #BBC, #John Le Carré, #The Night Manager, #Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy )

  Who would have thought that the BBC’s dramatisation of The Night Manager, the very model of a modern spy story, should have had its genesis almost 70 years ago? In 1947, a 16-year-old schoolboy is sent to Paris by his father to collect a debt from the...

• BBC: sound complaints again

  28 May 2014 ( #BBC, #Jamaica Inn, #Quirke, #sound )

  The BBC is "looking into" complaints about problems with the sound on its new crime drama Quirke – just weeks after hundreds of people complained about being unable to hear dialogue in Jamaica Inn. A corporation spokesman said it had "received complaints...

• BBC3 virtually certain to close as a broadcast channel

  01 July 2015 ( #BBC, #BBC Trust, #BBC3, #online channel )

  BBC3 is now virtually certain to close as a broadcast channel in January next year after the BBC Trust today gave provisional approval to the plans. The Corporation’s regulator said that the bid by BBC management to make the youth channel an online-only...

• Outlander and Adaptating Books

  18 August 2016 ( #adaptation, #Diana Gabaldon, #Outlander, #starz )

  TOWARD THE END of Saturday’s episode of Outlander, “Je Suis Prest,” Claire finally opens up to Jamie about why she has been in a traumatized fugue state for days on end. As rebellion looms, Claire is reminded of her own experience of war, when she served...

• Agatha Christie on the big screen

  13 September 2016 ( #agatha christie, #crooked house, #gillian anderson, #julian fellowes )

  EXCLUSIVE: Agatha Christie is finally headed back to the big screen. Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, Stefanie Martini, Terence Stamp and Honor Kneafsey are joining Max Irons and Glenn Close to star in an upcoming adaptation of Christie’s whodunit...

• Margaret Atwood on HBO

  07 June 2014 ( #Darren Aronofsky, #HBO, #MaddAddam, #Margaret Atwood )

  HBO is poised to turn Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam novels into a drama series. The dystopian trilogy, encompassing Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood andMaddAddam, is set to be produced - and potentially directed - by Darren Aronofsky for the premium...

• British programmes at the 2016 Emmy award ceremony

  19 September 2016 ( #Downton Abbey, #Got, #Maggie Smith, #Sherlock )

  America's love of quintessential Britishness was very much in evidence at the Emmy awards on Sunday night, with multiple wins for two of our most popular exports, Sherlock Holmes and Downton Abbey. Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat and producer Sue Vertue...

• Why is Game of Thrones so popular?

  24 May 2014 ( #fantasy, #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #HBO )

  The return of Game of Thrones, back for a fourth season of sword fighting, bed hopping and mud flinging, reminds us once again what a clever gamble HBO took in squeezing this massive production through our TV and laptop screens. Yes, George RR Martin’s...

• The latest script from Andrew Davies

  14 April 2014 ( #Andrew Davies, #BBC, #Dylan Thomas, #original screenplay )

  Made by Modern Television for the BBC to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth, the drama explores how Dylan Thomas, the creator of some of the most memorable lines in the English language, died in a smog-ridden New York on a November day in 1953,...

• Dickens's A Christmas Carol voted best festive film

  19 December 2015 ( #A Christmas Carol, #Charles Dickens, #poll, #TV movie )

  A Christmas Carol has been named RadioTimes.com readers’ favourite festive film, moving eighteen places up the chart to top our annual poll. The 1984 adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic tale sees George C Scott take on the iconic role of Ebenezer...

• Andrew Davies about his adaptation of Les Misérables

  05 June 2016 ( #Andrew Davies, #BBC, #Les Misérables, #Victor Hugo )

  Andrew Davies’s next historical novel adaptation for the BBC will be Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables – but nothing like the “shoddy farrago” of the musical. The adapter of Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch and most recently War & Peace gave his frank opinion...

• Sherlock at the BBC proms

  18 August 2015 ( #BBC, #BBC Proms, #BBC radio 3, #Sherlock )

  The musical tastes of Sherlock Holmes are to be celebrated at the BBC Proms. The concert on August 16 will feature works mentioned in the Arthur Conan Doyle books. The fictional sleuth was a violinist – he mentions buying a Stradivarius on Tottenham Court...

• 'Game of Thrones' gets record ratings

  07 April 2014 ( #Game of Thrones, #GoT, #HBO, #ratings )

  All hail HBO’s Game of Thrones. The fourth-season premiere of the fantasy delivered the show’s biggest audience yet: 6.6 million viewers. That makes Sunday’s Thrones HBO’s most-watched program since The Sopranos’ series finale in 2007. Two replays of...

• Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady on arte tonight (Dec. 4th, 2017)

  04 December 2017 ( #arte, #Henry James, #Jane Campion, #Portrait of a Lady )

  PORTRAIT DE FEMME DE JANE CAMPION ARTE propose Portrait de femme (The Portrait of a Lady, 1996) lundi 4 décembre à 20h55, pour accompagner la diffusion sur ARTE de la nouvelle série de Jane Campion, Top of the Lake: China Girl. Après le succès critique...