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• The Night Manager

  23 January 2016 ( #BBC, #BBC1, #John Le Carré, #The Night Manager )

  Here are just nine reasons we're beyond excited for new BBC1 drama The Night Manager: 1. Tom Hiddleston2. Huw Laurie3. Olivia Colman4. Tom Hollander5. Katherine Kelly6. David Harewood7. Elizabeth Debicki8. Russell Tovey9. Adeel Akhtar Advertising The...

• Downton Abbey was almost never made

  01 December 2015 ( #BBC, #Downton Abbey, #ITV, #Upstairs Downstairs )

  Downton Abbey is an internationally popular mega hit of a period drama. So much so that it's strange to think back to a time when people weren't sure if the show was going to be a success. It's even odder to imagine that we almost never met the Crawleys....

• Oliver Twist dans le Cycle Charles Dickens. arte 13 et 20 février 2014

  13 February 2014 ( #arte, #BBC, #Charles Dickens, #Oliver Twist )

  Le bébé survit. Nommé Oliver Twist, il vit une enfance misérable à l’orphelinat, supervisé par la sadique Mrs Corney et le brutal Mr Bumble. Il ne se laisse cependant pas faire et ose redemander une ration de gruau. Il est alors vendu comme apprenti à...

• Agatha Christie à Noël

  23 December 2016 ( #Agatha Christie, #And then there were none, #BBC, #Witness for the prosecution )

  SUCCES – Après l’enthousiasme suscité par la nouvelle version des "Dix petits nègres", la BBC a dévoilé les premières images de "Témoin à charge", adaptation d'une nouvelle d'Agatha Christie. Diffusion sur la chaîne anglaise les 26 et 27 décembre prochain....

• Bride & Prejudice - Review

  15 January 2017 ( #Bollywood, #Bride & Prejudice, #Jane Austen, #Pride & Prejudice )

  At first, the marriage between classical British literature and Bollywood musical would seem doomed to failure. But this particular match, arranged by Gurinder Chadha, finds a surprisingly rich field of common ground. Bride and Prejudice is bright, colorful,...

• George RR Martin's Wild Cards to be adapted

  09 August 2016 ( #George RR Martin, #GRRM, #TV, #Wild Cards )

  Given the fact that Game of Thrones and comic book movies are the feet of the geek colossus that now bestrides mainstream popular culture, combining author George RR Martin with a new TV series about superheroes seems like a licence to print money. Though...

• The Remains of the Day - Review

  20 November 2016 ( #Ishiguro, #James Ivory, #review, #The Remains of the Day )

  IN the late 1930's, in a stately home of England called Darlington Hall, Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) is the butler. He's the supreme commander of a vast staff that includes the housekeeper, the underbutlers, the cooks, the maids, the footmen, the scullery...

• 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...

• Rebecca

  26 December 2014 ( #Daphne Du Maurier, #Hitchcock, #Laurence Olivier, #Rebecca )

  Le premier film américain de Hitchcock – qui remplaça le projet Titanic – baigne encore dans une ambiance typiquement anglo-saxonne, aux confins du fantastique, empruntée à la littérature de Daphné du Maurier. Si la production est hollywoodienne le sujet...

• HBO GoT: from television to film theatres?

  27 March 2014 ( #Game of thrones, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #HBO )

  "Game of Thrones" is about to start season 4 on HBO, but author George R. R. Martin is already thinking ahead to the end. The lifespan of the series has always been a question, since "A Song of Ice and Fire" will conclude with the seventh book (Martin...

• Period Dramas are often accused of anachronisms. Period Literature can be guilty too.

  08 November 2013 ( #anachronism, #costume drama, #literature, #period drama )

  Whether we're reading the Booker prize books or watching Downton Abbey, we all love to catch out an author in an anachronism. Philip Hensher, in a piece on this year's Booker longlist, found problems in several books, and took particular issue with the...

• Why you should read classic books and watch classic novel adaptations

  02 February 2015 ( #Jane Eyre, #Pride & Prejudice, #Victorian novels, #Wuthering Heights )

  A long, dreary Victorian novel, full of infinite British countryside and submissive women who dote on,their contemptuous husbands. What could possibly be interesting in a long, tedious text full of difficult language and a repetitive plot? Well, surprisingly,...

• The Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton by Scorsese

  18 October 2015 ( #arte, #Edith Wharton, #Martin Scorsese, #The Age of Innocence )

  New York, 1870. Tandis qu’il annonce officiellement ses fiançailles avec May Welland (Winona Ryder), le jeune aristocrate Newland Archer (Daniel Day Lewis) apprend que Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer) est de retour à New York. Souvenir d’enfance, Ellen...

• Outlander will be "around for a while"

  02 August 2016 ( #Diana Gabaldon, #Emmy Awards, #Outlander, #Starz )

  Outlander, the sci-fi, time-travelling romance starring Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe, will be gracing our TV screens for a while yet. Starz CEO Chris Albrecht has promised that the future of the drama, which is based on Diana Gabaldon's bestselling...

• The BBC to adapt JK Rowling's crime novels

  11 December 2014 ( #BBC, #Crime novels, #JK Rowling, #Robert Galbraith )

  John Plunkett The BBC will adapt the crime novels written by JK Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, its second collaboration with the Harry Potter author. The Cuckoo’s Calling, the first book to feature private eye Cormoran Strike, became a...

• Public service media and democracy

  09 August 2016 ( #BBC, #public radio, #public service, #public TV )

  Countries that have popular, well-funded public service broadcasters encounter less rightwing extremism and corruption and have more press freedom, a report from the European Broadcasting Union has found. For the first time, an analysis has been done...

• Cast announcement in Jekyll and Hyde drama

  10 January 2015 ( #cast, #ITV, #Jekyll & Hyde, #RL Stevenson )

  Richard E Grant and Coronation Street alumnus Natalie Gumede are to appear in ITV's Jekyll and Hyde adaptation. If you were going easy on the mulled wine, you may also recognise Gumede from the recent Doctor Who Christmas special, where she joined the...

• 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...

• ITV hopes for a monster hit with Jekyll and Hyde

  02 November 2015 ( #Beowulf, #ITV, #Jekyll and Hyde, #RL Stevenson )

  TV’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...

• Rogue Male

  02 August 2016 ( #BBC, #Fox Searchlight, #Geoffrey Household, #Rogue Male )

  Benedict Cumberbatch is to produce and star in a new film production of the classic British novel Rogue Male. Michael Lesslie, who has also adapted Macbeth and Assassin's Creed, is to write the screenplay. Rogue Male was originally written by Geoffrey...

• War and Peace on BBC Radio 4

  01 January 2015 ( #BBC radio 4, #dramatisation, #Leo Tolstoy, #War and Peace )

  Ten things you need to know about War & Peace 1. Why it's SO long The length of War and Peace is partly explained by the length of time Tolstoy spent planning, writing and polishing it. The earliest draft storylines found in Tolstoy’s manuscripts date...

• Margaret Thatcher considered forcing the BBC to show adverts

  30 December 2014 ( #BBC, #ITV, #licence fee, #Margaret Thatcher )

  Margaret Thatcher considered forcing the BBC to show adverts, newly released documents reveal. Records from September 1979, written just months after Mrs Thatcher took office, show that the former Prime Minister harboured concerns about “extravagant”...

• The Casual Vacancy: a preview of the BBC1 adaptation of JK Rowling's novel

  28 January 2015 ( #BBC, #BBC1, #JK Rowling, #The Casual Vacancy )

  Adapting a best-selling novel by the iconic JK Rowling must be difficult enough with so many fans to please, but when it's a story as complex and packed with characters as 2012 bestseller The Casual Vacancy, it must be near impossible. Even its star Keeley...

• 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, Jamaica Inn, Game of Thrones locations

  30 December 2014 ( #filming locations, #game of thrones, #jamaica inn, #sherlock )

  Which stunning TV settings topped all others last year? Read on to find out the top 10 backdrops of 2014... 6. London – the setting of Sherlock London is a key element of both Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and the BBC1 hit series, starring...