Director-General of the BBC, Tony Hall, today defended the Licence Fee that funds the Corporation and rejected claims that the broadcaster should consider moving to a subscription or advertising model, saying that such changes would prevent the BBC from...
The BBC Trust's new Chair Rona Fairhead has said that BBC3's move online is "in and of itself good", although the Trust has yet to hear detailed proposals about how the channel's closure and move online will be accomplished. The BBC first announced plans...
Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville is to star in the BBC’s latest Shakespeare adaptations, joining cast members including Dame Judi Dench and Sherlock’s Benedict Cumberbatch. The actor will play the Duke of Gloucester, with Oscar-nominated Sally Hawkins...
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman won best actor and best supporting actor in a mini-series, although neither was at the ceremony. Steven Moffat also won best writing in a mini-series for the final episode of Sherlock's third season. (...) The main...
Moviegoers are swimming in a sea of book adaptations, as movie studios continue their frantic search for the perfect “pre-sold” properties to gobble up, completely reconfigure and then spit out, in the hopes that fans of the original will flock to the...
Unionists say that jobs will be lost in the broadcasting industry and with them the opportunity to make quality, new Scottish programmes. Holyrood says that a new Scottish Broadcasting Company will work closely with the BBC, protect jobs and use a new...
In the US, the series will be transmitted on PBS by GREAT PERFORMANCES, produced by THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET. Following an outstanding critical and audience reaction to the BAFTA Award-winning The Hollow Crown series in 2012, Neal Street Productions...
Benedict Cumberbatch drama Sherlock has attracted nearly £11 million in free publicity for London according to a new study. The promotional body Film London has estimated that all the popular excitement about the capital generated from the show - including...
Sean Bean is to star in The Frankenstein Chronicles, a new six-part period crime drama to air on ITV. Combining elements of the crime and horror genres, the drama takes its inspiration from Mary Shelley’s classic novel in which maverick scientist Dr....
Plus de 20 ans avant son arrivée remarquée sur la plateforme Netflix, la version originale de la série House of cards a été diffusée en Grande-Bretagne en 1990. En entrevue téléphonique, le créateur de la série originale House of cards ne cache pas son...
The BBC is thrashing out ideas for a new £2bn theme park in Kent which could turn popular dramas such as Doctor Who and Sherlock into major attractions. The BBC’s commercial arm BBC Worldwide has signed a preliminary agreement over the use of its shows...
Peter Capaldi’s debut series of Doctor Who has been a hit with audiences – but taking on the role meant leaving behind his part as villainous minister Cardinel Richilieu in BBC1’s Alexandre Dumas adaptation The Musketeers. You might think Capaldi’s departure...
Mr Selfridge est une nouvelle dramatique qu’ICI Radio-Canada Télé vous fera découvrira à compter du 10 janvier. Il s’agit de l’histoire vraie d’Harry Gordon Selfridge, un Américain qui a transformé le commerce britannique. Cet homme a en effet bousculé...
For those, like me, who have eagerly devoured Hilary Mantel’s door-stopping Booker-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the experience was like being taken directly into the world of candlelit Tudor intrigue and the minds of its people. We...
He's best known as bumbling Mr Bean or calculating Edmund Blackadder, but Rowan Atkinson is swapping comedy for drama in a new detective show. ITV has announced a new adaptation of Georges Simenon's novels about Parisian sleuth Jules Maigret. The books...
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...
« 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...
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...
Daniel Craig, JK Rowling and Sir David Attenborough are among a group of celebrities to sign an open letter to David Cameron, urging the Prime Minister to protect the BBC from cuts. The latest plea to the government in defence of the Corporation states...
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...
Be warned: the BBC’s adaptation of John Lanchester’s somewhat schematic 2012 novel Capital doesn’t make for unadulteratedly happy viewing. This isn’t to say that it isn’t good – this is one of those rare occasions when the TV version is better than the...
C’est un serpent de mer. Chaque année, un élu appelle à la constitution d’une BBC à la française, comme si ce monument de l’audiovisuel britannique était l’ultime référence pour toutes les radios et télés publiques d’Europe. Idem côté programme, la BBC...
ITV's remake of Jekyll and Hyde has been cancelled after one series. The drama, which starred Tom Bateman, Richard E Grant and Natalie Gumede, has been dropped by the broadcaster. While the series opened to 4.3 million viewers, the final episode, which...
ITV has pulled tonight's episode of fantasy drama Jekyll and Hyde from its schedule following the attacks that occurred in Paris on Friday November 13th. The show's creator Charlie Higson took to his Twitter account this morning to announce the schedule...
“You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone,” sang Joni Mitchell, once upon a time. Ain’t that the truth. At the Baftas recently, a journalist on the red carpet asked me to say a few words about what the BBC meant to me. Ah, that’s easy. Blimey, that’s...
