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• 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...

• 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,...

• 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,...

• 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....

• 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...

• 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...

• Period drama and merchandising?

  08 November 2013 ( #Downton Abbey, #ITV, #Julian Fellowes, #merchandising )

  We've all been there: you're settling down in your chair ready for the new season of Downton Abbey in the glow of your vanilla-scented M&S Downton candle after a relaxing bath using your Downton Abbey cream bath (fragranced with subtle tones of freesia...

• 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...

• Christmas 2016 on the BBC

  27 November 2016 ( #Agatha Christie, #Call the Midwife, #Roald Dahl, #Sherlock )

  It's just over a month until Christmas and what promises to be a stellar season of television as the BBC reveals a festive line-up that includes Doctor Who, Sherlock, another dose of Agatha Christie and the final ever episodes of Bake Off on the BBC....

• 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...

• Game of Thrones: "Seven gods, seven kingdoms, seven seasons"

  12 March 2014 ( #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #HBO )

  With the fourth series of HBO's hit fantasy series Game of Thrones poised to premiere on our telly sets in 26 days (10 hours and 37 minutes. Not that we are counting or anything...) excitement is running high. And there's yet more good news on the way...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• New adaptation of Cider with Rosie

  25 August 2014 ( #BBC, #BBC One, #Cider with Rosie, #Laurie Lee )

  Ben Vanstone adapts coming-of-age story Cider With Rosie gets BBC One adaption for season of classic 20th-century literature. Adapted by Ben Vanstone (The Borrowers, Merlin) from Laurie Lee‘s classic novel, the 90-minute film from Origin Pictures is a...

• 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...

• The Hour series 2 on arte in November

  14 November 2013 ( #BBC, #Ben Whishaw, #Peter Capaldi, #The Hour )

  TROIS ÉPISODES À 20H50 LES JEUDIS 21 ET 28 NOVEMBRE 2013 À l'antenne de la BBC 1957, l’équipe de l’émission "The Hour" revient pour une deuxième saison plus brillante, plus retorse et plus d’époque que jamais. On retrouve pour ces six nouveaux épisodes...

• 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....

• The Hollow Crown 2 on the BBC in 2016

  25 March 2014 ( #BBC, #Sam Mendes, #Shakespeare, #The Hollow Crown )

  BBC director general Tony Hall today unveiled plans for what he described as the Corporation’s “strongest commitment to the arts we’ve made in a generation" with an extra £2.75m given to arts programming. Just weeks after announcing plans to move youth-orientated...