Well, well, well, doesn't Jack Whitehall scrub up well? The comedian/actor/writer has joined BBC2's new three-part adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s 1928 novel Decline and Fall. In this exclusive picture we get a peek at Whitehall as Paul Pennyfeather, the...
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child writer Jack Thorne is joining new TV drama Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K Dick. The 10-part Channel 4 and Sony Pictures Television series, based on Dick's short stories, will star Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston....
Director Whit Stillman began his film career with Metropolitan , a contemporary courtship tale set in Manhattan but shot through with allusions to Jane Austen’s novels. Now, with his new film Love and Friendship , out next week, he gives us his version...
On 31 August 1936 Elizabeth Cowell became the first female announcer. This was before the official launch of the television service on 2 November, when the BBC made test transmisssions for the RadiOlympia exhibition. Watch her original appearance, plus...
One of the reasons why Whit Stillman’s new film, “Love & Friendship,” is so deeply satisfying is that he filmed it on his home turf. “Love & Friendship,” an adaptation of an early novel by Jane Austen that was published only posthumously (in 1871), is...
Outlander’s Third Season: Everything We Know So Far The Starz series ended its second season this weekend. This past Saturday, Starz’s Outlander ended its exquisite second season with the drama’s most heartbreaking episode yet: “Dragonfly in Amber,” which...
Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields had never met before they were teamed up to write and produce The Americans for FX five years ago. Now, they continue to marvel at the similarities in their working styles and sense of aesthetics. In a wide-ranging conversation...
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...
Seventy years ago, radio history was made. At 2pm on 7 October 1946, the very first Woman’s Hour was broadcast on the BBC Light Programme. Every weekday thereafter, the hour-long magazine featured musical requests, listeners’ questions, a serial and “talks...
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...
After the overthrow of Salvador Allende, in 1973, the Chilean director Raúl Ruiz emigrated to Paris. There, he became something of a cinematic ambassador for magical realism, bringing a welcome dose of fantasy to the French cinema. A prolific filmmaker...
The season four finale of The Americans is the culmination of a season-long espionage plot, as the embedded Russian spies Philip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell) seek to get a sample of a biological weapon out of an American science...
Rowan Atkinson's portrayal of legendary French detective Maigret is set to be one of ITV's star attractions this Christmas. The first in the series, Maigret Sets A Trap, aired on ITV on Easter Monday this year. Now Atkinson is back with a new feature-length...
Following the sad death of Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs, BBC1 will tonight show an episode of the classic sitcom as a tribute. Communication Problems will be screened at 7:30pm straight after The One Show and features Sachs as the hotel's hapless Spanish...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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’...
« 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...
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,”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
