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...
Echoing the thoughts of fans, George RR Martin has spoken of his regret that HBO's Game of Thrones is only ten episodes long, instead of the 13 he thinks the adaptation of his fantasy novels requires. Martin, author of The Song of Ice and Fire series...
Joanna Vanderham has been cast in BBC One's The Go-Between , which will form part of its season of classic 20th century literature. Vanderham, who has appeared in The Paradise, Dancing On The Edge and Banished, will play Marian Maudsley in the film. She...
BBC1 should take more creative risks and not rely on a handful of familiar and long-running titles and personalities, the BBC Trust said today. It also reported that fans of shows like Sherlock were disappointed by limited runs of their favourite programmes....
The BBC says it is now the home of Agatha Christie adaptations after striking a deal with the writer’s estate that will see David Walliams play the Queen of Crime’s lesser known sleuth, Tommy Beresford. The part of Tommy's wife and fellow detective Tuppence...
Echoing the thoughts of fans, George RR Martin has spoken of his regret that HBO's Game of Thrones is only ten episodes long, instead of the 13 he thinks the adaptation of his fantasy novels requires. Martin, author of The Song of Ice and Fire series...
The Borgias star Holliday Grainger is to play the lead in a new BBC1 adaptation of DH Lawrence’s raunchy classic Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Grainger, who played Lucrezia Borgia in Showtime’s Jeremy Irons-fronted TV saga, will play the part of Constance...
The last series saw Sherlock’s life change a lot - he returned from the dead, his best friend John Watson married Mary Morstan and he met his match in Charles Augustus Magnussen. After the briefest of exiles, Sherlock came back only to face one of his...
The fact that HBO’s Game of Thrones is a significant part of our pop-cultural landscape is undeniable. Most of you can rattle off at least a few House words and some of the more dedicated among you have even memorized the spelling of Targaryen. But Game...
He was once known as TV’s Mr Sex for his racy adaptations of period classics such as Pride and Prejudice and Fanny Hill for the BBC. But now scriptwriter Andrew Davies has said that TV drama needs to calm down a bit: there are, he believes, too many dead...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
First Jamaica Inn, now Quirke. The BBC have been plagued with complaints about sound quality these past few weeks from viewers struggling to make sense of the corporation's two big-budget dramas. The latter – starring Gabriel Byrne and based on the books...
Jeudi 17 avril, France 4 a proposé le troisième et dernier épisode de la saison 3 de Sherlock en première partie de soirée. Librement adapté de « Charles Auguste Milverton » (The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton) de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, l’épisode,...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV by Joe Moran A book review ; clickable link: here Interesting tidbits: "Moran leads us into a lost world of primitive technological wonderment, with the first BBC broadcasts of the 1930s...
Game of Thrones is "fantasy". The TV series, and the books on which it's based, A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin, is set in mythical Westeros. In the north, a massive wall of ice keeps out barbarian "wildlings" and zombie-like "white walkers"....
With season four of Game of Thrones almost upon us, locations manager Robbie Boake takes us on a video tour of the Belfast locations and sets from the fantasy drama series. “We do things akin to feature films – if not at a higher production level at some...
