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• Should the BBC have axed period drama The Paradise?

  13 February 2014 ( #Au Bonheur des Dames, #BBC, #Emile Zola, #The Paradise )

  BBC1 drama The Paradise will not be returning for a third series. That's right, the shiny doors of Moray's department store are being closed for the final time. Denise will be devastated. The show, which starred Emun Elliott, Joanna Vanderham and Sarah...

• The Musketeers to return for a second series

  09 February 2014 ( #Alexandre Dumas, #BBC, #BBC One, #The Musketeers )

  The BBC are so chuffed with their Musketeers remake, they've already ordered a second series of the new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic tales. After just three episodes of the swashbuckling ten-part drama, bosses have approved the return of all...

• A review of Netflix's Persuasion

  24 August 2022 ( #Jane Austen, #Netflix, #Persuasion, #review )

  Netflix’s 2022 adaptation of Jane Austen’s final completed novel is out – and it’s not a traditional take on the Regency romance. Dr Lizzie Rogers, a historian specialising in the 18th century, explores an adaptation that subverts expectations“The essence...

• Jane Campion's Portrait of a Lady on arte tonight (Dec. 4th, 2017)

  04 December 2017 ( #arte, #Henry James, #Jane Campion, #Portrait of a Lady )

  PORTRAIT DE FEMME DE JANE CAMPION ARTE propose Portrait de femme (The Portrait of a Lady, 1996) lundi 4 décembre à 20h55, pour accompagner la diffusion sur ARTE de la nouvelle série de Jane Campion, Top of the Lake: China Girl. Après le succès critique...

• 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...

• Period Dramas are often accused of anachronisms. Period Literature can be guilty too.

  08 November 2013 ( #anachronism, #costume drama, #literature, #period drama )

  Whether we're reading the Booker prize books or watching Downton Abbey, we all love to catch out an author in an anachronism. Philip Hensher, in a piece on this year's Booker longlist, found problems in several books, and took particular issue with the...

• Period Dramas are often accused of anachronisms. Period Literature can be guilty too.

  08 November 2013 ( #anachronism, #costume drama, #literature, #period drama )

  Whether we're reading the Booker prize books or watching Downton Abbey, we all love to catch out an author in an anachronism. Philip Hensher, in a piece on this year's Booker longlist, found problems in several books, and took particular issue with the...

• Lord of the Rings : ‘lost’ scripts

  13 March 2022 ( #BBC, #Lord of the Rings, #Tolkien )

  Decades before Peter Jackson directed his epic adaptations of The Lord of the Rings , JRR Tolkien was involved with the first ever dramatisation of his trilogy, but its significance was not realised in the 1950s and the BBC’s audio recordings are believed...

• ‘Persuasion’ preview

  22 July 2021 ( #Jane Austen, #Netflix, #Persuasion )

  Netflix has released the first photos from their upcoming version of Persuasion. (...) Netflix’s film will apparently be “a modern, witty approach to a beloved story while still remaining true to Jane Austen’s classic novel.” It was previously understood...

• The Andrew Davies Collection at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU)

  27 March 2023 ( #academic, #adaptation, #Andrew Davies, #archives, #BBC, #classic novels, #Deborah Cartmell, #documentary, #rewriting the classics, #screenwriter, #scripts )

  The Andrew Davies Collection at DMU

• Netflix’s ‘Persuasion’ Remake

  19 May 2021 ( #Jane Austen, #Netflix, #Persuasion )

  Henry Golding has been cast alongside Dakota Johnson in Netflix’s adaptation of the Jane Austen novel “Persuasion.” The movie will serve as a modern-day retelling of the romantic drama, centering on the conforming Anne Elliot (Johnson), who lives with...

• Cannes Film Festival (2021) : Literary adaptations

  14 July 2021 ( #Cannes, #film festival, #literary adaptations )

  Seul le microcosme de l’édition parisienne s’est amusé à compter : en 2021, Gallimard montera neuf fois les marches du 74 e Festival de Cannes. Du jamais-vu. Les auteurs édités ou traduits par la maison ont inspiré bon nombre de réalisateurs, entre Arnaud...

• ‘Succession’ Actor Sarah Snook to Star in Jane Austen Adaptation ‘Persuasion’

  16 September 2020 ( #bbc films, #jane Austen, #persuasion )

  Sarah Snook, the Emmy-nominated actress from HBO’s hit drama “Succession,” has signed on to star in an adaptation of Jane Austen’s final novel, “Persuasion.” The movie, from Searchlight Pictures, will be directed by Mahalia Belo. Published in 1817 after...

• "The Hollywood of Television" (The BBC television Centre)

  29 June 2020 ( #archives, #BBC, #Television Centre )

  Seen by many as “the Hollywood of television”, this collection depicts how Television Centre nurtured and housed the creativity, technical ingenuity, and glamour that helped usher in the new era of entertainment of the 1960s and 70s, securing television...

• 'They did the best that could be done with the time they had, which simply wasn’t enough.'

  10 November 2019 ( #His Dark Materials, #Philip Pullman, #The Golden Compass )

  extract: However, the original novel’s author Philip Pullman has noted that he hopes this doesn’t mean people look too unfavourably on the previously-attempted screen translation of his work, 2007 movie The Golden Compass, which is generally remembered...

• 4 Reasons Why ‘Downton Abbey’ is a hit at the Box Office

  05 October 2019 ( #big screen, #Downton Abbey, #original drama )

  1.) The Power of Bingewatching The “Downton Abbey” movie continuing the story of the Granthams was always going to bring back the devoted fans who helped deliver 9.1 million viewers to PBS for the March 2016 series finale. But that audience has not remained...

• Northanger Abbey tonight on arte

  26 October 2017 ( #Andrew Davies, #Jane Austen, #Northanger Abbey )

  Ex-garçon manqué, Catherine Morland est tombée à l'adolescence sous l'emprise des romans gothiques... D'après Jane Austen, une romance pleine de fraîcheur et de légèreté, portée par un quatuor de stars (alors) en herbe, Felicity Jones et Carey Mulligan...

• The Long Song

  13 July 2018 ( #Andrea Levy, #BBC, #The Long Song )

  Hayley Atwell is to play an odious slave owner in the BBC adaptation of The Long Song, Andrea Levy’s novel set in a slave plantation. The Agent Carter star has been cast as Caroline Mortimer in the BBC1 three-part drama, owner of a 19th century Jamaican...

• 'Murder on the Orient Express' Review

  10 December 2017 ( #Agatha Christie, #Kenneth Branagh, #Murder on the Orient Express )

  Over the course of his 28-year directing career, Kenneth Branagh has adapted everything from literary classics (Shakespeare’s “Henry V”) to comicbook pulp (putting a distinctive Dutch-angle slant on Marvel’s “Thor”). Now, with “Murder on the Orient Express,”...

• Guerre & Paix (BBC) sur France 2 à Noël

  24 December 2017 ( #Andrew Davies, #BBC, #War & Peace )

  « A untie Beeb » , comme la surnomment affectueusement les Anglais, s’est fait une spécialité des adaptations littéraires haut de gamme. Outre la mise en valeur du patrimoine national, de Jane Austen à Charles Dickens, elle s’empare régulièrement de classiques...

• A BBC Christmas Carol for 2019

  30 November 2017 ( #A Christmas Carol, #BBC, #DIckens )

  Steven Knight, the writer of hit dramas Peaky Blinders and Taboo, is to adapt a series of Charles Dickens novels for the BBC starting with A Christmas Carol. The new three-part version of the Victorian writer’s seasonal classic will air in two years’...

• TV is rewriting the book on how to adapt novels

  08 May 2017 ( #American Gods, #Game of Thrones, #The Handmaid's Tale )

  t is a truth as old as Hollywood itself, that the book is always better than the movie. The difficulty of compressing a novel into two hours means that adaptations such as Hitchcock’s Psycho, Spielberg’s Jaws and Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers are among...

• My favourite Hitchcock: Rebecca

  22 February 2017 ( #daphne du maurier, #hitchcock, #rebecca )

  "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again …" Everyone who loves film knows the opening words of Rebecca, that astonishing mixture of emotional hothouse and freezer that was Hitchcock's first American film, made for David O Selznick and released in...

• Grim resonance for the second season of the Amazon series “The Man in the High Castle,” an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel

  18 January 2017 ( #Amazon, #Philip K Dick, #The Man in the High Castle )

  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...

• Sherlock in cinemas

  09 December 2016 ( #BBC, #Conan Doyle, #sherlock )

  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...