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• In French: À la croisée des mondes va avoir son adaptation série

  05 November 2015 ( #BBC, #heroic fantasy, #His Dark Materials, #Philip Pullman )

  Vendue à plus de 18 millions d’exemplaires et traduite en 40 langues, A la croisée des mondes a été un succès littéraire avant d'être un bide au cinéma. Car, si A la croisée des mondes : la boussole d'or , avec Nicole Kidman et Daniel Craig n'avait pas...

• 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...

• Agatha Christie drama And Then There Were None starts filming

  11 July 2015 ( #Agatha Christie, #and Then There Were None, #BBC, #Sarah Phelps )

  He is beloved of Poldark fans for playing the good, kind and smouldering Ross Poldark, a man with a penchant for taking his top off. But TV viewers will soon be seeing a different side to Aidan Turner who is to star as a dangerous wrong ‘un in a new BBC...

• 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...

• Peter Capaldi defends the BBC

  05 October 2015 ( #BBC, #Dr Who, #The Hour, #The Musketeers )

  Peter Capaldi has spoken out in defence of the BBC, calling it "the most special, special organisation." The Doctor Who star, who has also appeared in BBC series The Musketeers, The Hour and The Thick of It, told US chat show host Larry King about his...

• In French: new Lady Chatterley

  18 August 2015 ( #BBC, #DH Lawrence, #ITV, #Lady Chatterley )

  LE SCAN TÉLÉ - Pour contrer la dernière saison de la série, la «Beeb» proposera en septembre une nouvelle adaptation du roman sulfureux, avec la star de Game of Thrones Richard Madden. La projection presse a divisé les critiques britanniques. Alors qu'ITV...

• Download your favourite BBC radio shows

  15 July 2015 ( #bbc, #bbc radio, #download, #radio )

  If you’ve spent many a morning frustrated that you can’t listen to the News Quiz on your commute, then you’re in luck – BBC radio will soon be free for download on tablets, smartphones and other internet devices. Programmes from The Archers to Radio 1’s...

• The Musketeers on French television

  29 May 2015 ( #Alexandre Dumas, #BBC, #D'Artagnan, #The Musketeers )

  Bientôt la nouvelle série The Musketeers sur TMC ! THE MUSKETEERS, créé par la BBC, est la première véritable série de cape et d’épée. Basée sur l’œuvre d’Alexandre Dumas, cette production est une véritable fresque romanesque à grand spectacle qui revisite...

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (BBC)

  27 September 2015 ( #A Midsummer Night's Dream, #BBC, #Russel T Davies, #Shakespeare )

  Silk and Shameless star Maxine Peake has been cast as the lovelorn fairy queen Titania in Russell T Davies’ reworking of Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. She will be joined by Sliding Doors and Rebus star John Hannah who takes...

• BBC3's move online delayed

  24 April 2015 ( #BBC, #BBC Trust, #BBC3, #BBC3 online )

  Plans to move BBC3 online have been pushed back until 2016 because the consultation process is taking longer than anticipated. An interim decision on the future of the channel was expected as early as this month according to optimistic internal BBC assessments,...

• 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...

• Why do all BBC period drama trailers sound the same?

  20 February 2015 ( #BBC, #period drama, #The Musketeers, #trailers )

  Two new trailers for BBC historical dramas aired this week, Banished on BBC2 and Poldark on BBC1 – and I couldn't tell which was which. Both had menacing, candle-flickering, fade-to-black intrigue. Both had blokes from Being Human (Aidan Turner in Poldark,...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 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...

• 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...

• 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”...

• 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...

• New adaptation of Jekyll & Hyde

  24 November 2014 ( #BBC, #ITV, #Robert Louis Stevenson, #The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and My Hyde )

  Fast Show alumnus Charlie Higson is to reimagine Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story of Jekyll and Hyde in a new 10-part series for ITV. Set in 1930s London, the drama will pay homage to Stevenson’s 1886 novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and My Hyde...

• A Testament of Youth, trailer

  23 November 2014 ( #Jon Snow, #memoirs, #Testament of Youth, #Vera Brittain )

  The landmark memoirs of First World War nurse Vera Brittain are lavishly brought to life in this new trailer for the film adaptation of Testament of Youth. Swedish actress Alicia Vikander plays Brittain, a young woman whose plans to study at Oxford are...

• Quiz: do you know your Pride and Prejudice from your Bridget Jones's Diary?

  04 October 2014 ( #bridget jones's diary, #helen fielding, #jane austen, #pride & prejudice )

  200 years ago today, Jane Austen's famous novel Pride and Prejudice was first published. Little did she know that 188 years later, she would inspire Renee Zelwegger's performance as the overweight, chain-smoking, big knicker-wearing comedy heroine Bridget...

• Impassioned speech by BBC TV boss

  04 December 2014 ( #BBC, #educate, #entertain, #inform )

  BBC director of television Danny Cohen has called on viewers to appreciate what the Corporation delivers before it is too late. In an address to journalists at the BBC press Christmas drinks on Wednesday night, Cohen said that the organisation is at a...

• Northanger Abbey (2008): from novel to film, Catherine's imagination

  23 November 2014 ( #Andrew Davies, #Jane Austen, #Northanger Abbey, #PBS Masterpiece )

  NOVEL Excerpted from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Volume I, Chapter 3. "I see what you think of me," said [Tilney] gravely — "I shall make but a poor figure in your journal tomorrow." "My journal!"[replied Catherine] "Yes, I know exactly what you...