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• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Man Booker winner adapted for TV

  26 August 2016 ( #BBC, #Eleanor Catton, #Man Booker Prize, #The Luminaries )

  Eleanor Catton's Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Luminaries is to be made into a BBC drama series. The six-part adaptation, also written by Catton, is a Victorian mystery tale set during the New Zealand gold rush. The New Zealand author became the...

• Could this be the final ever series of Sherlock?

  04 October 2016 ( #Arthur Conan Doyle, #BBC, #Sherlock, #Sherlock Holmes )

  Sherlock fans: brace yourself. Benedict Cumberbatch just hinted the BBC detective drama could be reaching its natural end. Speaking to GQ magazine about the upcoming series of the show, Cumberbatch said it felt “complete” and like “the end of an era”....

• The titles of the first two new Sherlock episodes revealed

  26 September 2016 ( #BBC, #Conan Doyle, #Sherlock, #Sherlock Holmes )

  The titles of the first two new Sherlock episodes which will air in 2017 have been revealed. BBC One, which broadcasts the drama, confirmed the episodes will be called The Six Thatchers and The Lying Detective. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman...

• 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...

• 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...

• BBC to adapt J. Burton’s bestseller The Miniaturist

  28 August 2016 ( #BBC, #bestseller, #Jessie Burton, #the Miniaturist )

  BBC1 has commissioned a three-part adaptation of Jessie Burton’s haunting period thriller The Miniaturist. The new series is likely to air in 2017 and has been adapted by the scriptwriter John Brownlow, who wrote the Gwyneth Paltrow film Ted and Sylvia....

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• New adaptation of mystery adventure classic The Moonstone on the BBC

  18 July 2016 ( #BBC, #LoveToRead, #The Moonstone, #Wilkie Collins )

  It will air as part of the BBC #LoveToRead season, supported by BBC Learning. Thomson will play the legendary Sergeant Cuff, with Hadland as the pious and unwittingly hilarious Miss Clack. John Thomson says: "The Moonstone is a classic novel, and this...

• Not a football fan? Watch Tess on arte tonight

  03 July 2016 ( #Polanki, #Tess, #Tess of the D'Urbervilles, #Thomas Hardy )

  C’est l’un des chefs-d’œuvre de Roman Polanski, sans doute son film le plus romanesque et l’un des plus intimes, dans lequel le cinéaste abandonne son humour grinçant et absurde pour reconstituer tout un pan de la société anglaise du XIXème siècle et...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• And then there were none on Boxing Day

  01 December 2015 ( #Agatha Christie, #And then there were none, #BBC, #Boxing Day )

  1939. As civilization teeters on the brink of war, ten strangers are persuaded to retreat from their troubled lives to Soldier Island, an isolated rock off the Devon coast. A reckless playboy, a decrepit judge, a nervous businessman, an unhinged Harley...

• Wolf Hall: entretien avec le réalisateur

  21 January 2016 ( #arte, #BBC, #Hilary Mantel, #Wolf Hall )

  Grand nom de la fiction britannique, Peter Kosminsky s’est illustré avec des oeuvres de politique contemporaine saluées par la critique. Il s’attelle pour la première fois à une série en costumes à laquelle il injecte les thèmes qui lui sont chers. Pourquoi...

• The BBC announces an adaptation of the Woman in White

  01 January 2016 ( #BBC, #Gothic novel, #The Woman in White, #Wilkie Collins )

  Woman in White 4 X 60 Made by Origin Pictures with BBC NI Drama for BBC One. When Walter Hartright encounters a ghostly woman dressed all in white on a moonlit road, he soon finds himself drawn into a mysterious and disturbing world. Romance, suspense,...

• Jude (Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy) on arte

  23 November 2015 ( #arte, #Jude, #Michael Winterbottom, #Thomas Hardy )

  Dans un village anglais de l’époque victorienne, le jeune Jude Fawley reçoit de son maître d'école un conseil décisif : si l'on veut prendre le contrôle de sa vie et la réussir, il faut étudier sans cesse et rejoindre les grandes universités. Suivant...

• Additional funding for the BBC World Service

  26 November 2015 ( #BBC, #Licence Fee, #public service, #World Service )

  In a change to his usual programming, the George Osborne used the spending review to announce additional funding for the BBC World Service. This would have come as a surprise to anybody paying attention to the BBC, which has spent the last five years...

• 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....