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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
There have been countless stage and screen adaptations of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's masterful horror novel, Frankenstein, since its initial publication in 1818. Tuesday saw the trailer for the latest, entitled Victor Frankenstein. A hirsute Daniel...
Séminaire sur la romance sentimentale "The contemporaneity of Jane Austen: the ongoing subversion of canons and ideologies in Romance writing" en anglais. Par Anne Besnault (ERIAC, Université de Rouen) Et Myriam Boussahba (GRIC, Université Le Havre Normandie)...
Peter Kosminsky's Baftas speech backing the BBC – full text Read the Wolf Hall director’s defence of the corporation against John Whittingdale’s attempts to undermine its independence THE GUARDIAN Thank you. On behalf of all of us who worked on Wolf Hall,...
A royal charter (...) dates back to before the constitutional monarchy was introduced and before regular sittings of parliament began, having been granted by monarchs in person, or in their name, to incorporate 900 bodies since the 13th century. (...)...
Vanity Fair contributing editor Jim Windolf talks to George R. R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the ongoing book series on which the popular HBO show Game of Thrones is based, who tells Windolf that the show is indeed catching up to the books:...
BBC News today celebrates its 60th birthday. The first ever news bulletin was transmitted at 7:30pm on July 5th 1954 - and was a very different affair from the 24-hour rolling news channel we can watch today. The news began as a 22-minute programme, starting...
Bien avant que les intrigues politiques ne deviennent l’un des genres dominants des séries à succès (House of Cards, Scandal, Borgen, The West Wing, voire Game of Thrones), les Anglais se passionnaient déjà pour les petites trahisons des parlementaires...
Equally mysterious but with an arguably more high-profile cast, The Leftovers is an adaptation of novelist Tom Perrotta's 2011 best-selling novel of the same name. Set in a small New York suburb three years after 140 million people – two per cent of the...
Sir Ian McKellen’s call for the BBC to commission more TV adaptations of stage plays appears to have been successful. At the BFI screening of his recent TV drama The Dresser, McKellen asked the Corporation to adapt more stage works. “I can’t recommend...
BBC3 is to become an online-only service, closing down as a broadcast channel in autumn 2015, under plans set out today by BBC director general Tony Hall. The move will free up over £50 million from BBC3's programme-making budget, providing a cash injection...
President Barack Obama gets early copies of HBO's Game of Thrones before the general public. The show's creators confirmed to Vanity Fair that the president received copies of the show before it's released to the general public. In a report published...
Coup dur pour la prestigieuse British Broadcasting Corporation. La BBC, premier groupe audiovisuel public du monde, a annoncé jeudi 17 juillet la suppression de 415 emplois dans le secteur de l'information sur les deux prochaines années. Le directeur...
We're not sure how we feel about this. Yes, seeing the epic Game of Thrones on a screen the height of five double decker buses would be impressive, but surely it's a bit much? Think of the beheadings. Think of the naughty bits. Nevertheless, like winter,...
Épuisée et transie, Jane Eyre s'effondre sur le seuil de la demeure du pasteur St. John et de ses soeurs. La jeune fille reprend des forces, ranimée par la chaleur et les attentions de cette famille accueillante, sans rien dévoiler du pesant secret qui...
Interesting tidbits: On our fascination with anti-heroes… What’s happened over the last fifteen years is you have characters that are not good at their jobs, that have terrible family lives, that are anti-heroes – complex stories that are told over a...
The world lost a truly beloved comedic voice in the passing of Andrew Sachs, known for his iconic role as Manuel in the BBC's Fawlty Towers . The actor passed away aged 86, following a four-year battle with dementia, though he continued to work for a...
Edward Albee, the Pulitzer-winning playwright behind some of the most important and groundbreaking works of American theater and whose 1962 drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was famously snubbed by the Pulitzer Board despite the recommendation of...
Séminaire sur la romance sentimentale "The contemporaneity of Jane Austen: the ongoing subversion of canons and ideologies in Romance writing" en anglais. Par Anne Besnault (ERIAC, Université de Rouen) Et Myriam Boussahba (GRIC, Université Le Havre Normandie)...
