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...
SYNOPSIS Été 1956. Depuis plus de trente ans, Mr Stevens, majordome, dirige une armée de domestiques dévoués à Lord Darlington, éminent aristocrate britannique aux sympathies nazies. Après le décès de celui-ci, Miss Kenton écrit une lettre à son ancien...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mercredi, sort le film "Downton Abbey", adaptation de la série britannique au succès mondial. En six saisons (2010-2015) elle a décrit le quotidien de la riche famille Crawley, membre de l'aristocratie de l'Empire, tout en laissant, et c'est son intérêt,...
Downton Abbey is entertainment. Its illustrious predecessor in television mega-success about the English upper class, Brideshead Revisited, is art. This distinction between entertainment and art helps explain the decline inDownton this year—it is simply...
A pretty village in rural Hertfordshire is set to get a Game of Thrones-style makeover next month... But residents of Kings Langley will be relieved to hear their fantasy themed transformation won't include violence, bloodshed or the arrival of fiery-tongued...
Source: BBC Radio 4 Today Programme (April 7th, 2014) x Game of Thrones writer George RR Martin discusses the changing attitude of television towards fantasy Game of Thrones author George RR Martin: TV network "makes final decisions" "The show is very...
In the age of the Internet, the act of spoiling is easier than ever before. Through live-tweeting and message boards and comments sections, the information is out there and spreads quickly. But why do some people enjoy revealing certain information about...
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Mathieu Kassovitz va incarner Napoléon dans « Guerre et Paix », une série de la BBC. C'est ce qu'a annoncé, au Festival de fiction TV de La Rochelle, Ben Donald, responsable de la fiction internationale à la BBC. La série est une adaptation du roman russe...
The Networking Club was a not-for-profit subscription website offering early social networking, bulletin board features and information about the BBC. It went live to coincide with the first episode of the educational TV series, The Net. A series of individual...
I love HBO’s Game of Thrones. I love George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, the books on which the fantasy series is based. And unlike some screen adaptations of books, the two seem to love each other. The series, within the constraints of time,...
The newly confirmed title of the Sherlock season four finale could almost have some fans worrying that the show is calling time permanently... The instalment of the series is called The Final Problem and will air on BBC1 on Sunday 15th January, following...
« Danse avec les stars » (TF1), « Le Meilleur Pâtissier » (M6), « Le Maillon faible » (D8), « Vos objets ont une histoire » (France 2) et très bientôt l’historique « Top Gear » sur RMC Découverte… Toutes ces émissions, dites de flux, bien connues des...
At the party in West Chelsea’s Hotel Americano after the New York premiere of Testament of Youth on Tuesday night, its star Alicia Vikander was gossiping with guests alongside her boyfriend, Michael Fassbender. The film’s director James Kent, in sharp...
ITV’s has refused to bow to pressure to move its teatime drama Jekyll and Hyde to a later slot after the watershed, despite more than 500 complaints about violent scenes in the broadcast on Sunday evening. The drama, shown at 6:30pm, featured scenes of...
NBC has put the final nail in Dracula's coffin. The American network has opted to cut short the infamous vampire's quest for revenge, scrapping the big-budget series after just one series. Dracula, which boasted a cast including The Tudors' Jonathan Rhys...
Fantasy television series Game of Thrones a factor in new name choices They may sound more like characters in a historical drama than our next generation of children. But Millicent, Elvina and Alfred, along with other Olde English names, are making a...
The 2016 American Film Market gets underway today in Santa Monica and it’s looking like the frantic last-minute packaging has paid off for sales agents and buyers alike as there’s plenty of product on offer to feed hungry distribution mouths. There is...
Philip K. Dick’s 1962 alternative-history novel, “The Man in the High Castle,” a single, terrifyingly plausible shift in history has produced a profoundly transformed world. In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is assassinated at a rally in Florida, setting...
Not only does Sherlock get love on both sides of the Channel, in France they think it's so good they show it twice, so that younger and older viewers can get their fix… The BBC detective drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch is one of French TV’s most popular...
Certain actors take the business of preparing for a role extremely seriously. For My Left Foot, Daniel Day-Lewis insisted on the crew pushing him around in a wheelchair between takes. Marlon Brando stuffed cotton-wool balls in his cheeks to play Vito...
