The money is to help "build the global reach of the World Service" to half a billion people and "increase access to news and information". Director general Tony Hall said he "warmly welcomed" the announcement. The government will provide £34m between...
BBC radio director Helen Boaden has defended Radio 1 and 2 after the Government said the stations lacked 'distinction' and would be under review in the green paper on the BBC. "The BBC’s mission is to entertain as well as to inform and we should challenge...
Jonathan Dimbleby is flying the flag for the BBC with The BBC at War which starts on Sunday night and charts the Corporation's struggles to report the news truthfully and fairly during conflict and emerge as an international broadcaster of high repute...
Deux flics sur les docks, épisodes adaptés des romans de Graham Hurley, Du sang et du miel et Sur la mauvaise pente, avec Jean-Marc Barr et Bruno Solo. « Deux Flics sur les docks est l'adaptation des polars émouvants et sombres de Graham Hurley, où le...
Government will regret its attempts to clip the wings of the Corporation during the ongoing charter renewal process. The BBC, says McKellen, is “one of the great glories of this country”. “Everybody’s worried," said the Lord of the Rings star. "I cannot...
Après "Les Dix Petits Nègres", la BBC confirme avec "Témoin indésirable" qu'elle sait y faire pour signer des adaptations réussies d'Agatha Christie. Mais quels sont les ingrédients de ce succès ? À l'époque des Dix Petits Nègres, diffusée fin 2015 en...
In April 2003 the BBC's Big Read began the search for the UK's best-loved novel, and asked Britons to nominate their favourite books. Along the way somebody - nobody knows who exactly - has edited the list including more modern books. Now a facebook page...
Sir David Attenborough has said that he's "very concerned" about the future of the BBC, and that it's in "real danger." The naturalist, who has been making iconic natural history series for the broadcaster for over 60 years, said, "If you lose the BBC,...
Cette semaine dans « Un épisode et j’arrête », les critiques de l’ACS reçoivent des traducteurs de séries : Laure-Hélène Césari (auteure de sous-titres) et Tim Stevens (auteur de doublage), tous deux membres de l’Ataa, l'Association des Traducteurs et...
Ce fut une révolution silencieuse qui changea les soirées de France : avec elle, en 1949, fini les jeux de cartes, l'accordéon ou les contes près de la cheminée ! Les familles se retrouvaient à 20h30 à l'école pour.... regarder la télévision.C'était la...
Because there are certain things you can’t get away with saying or doing in ad-supported TV, the medium has often used genre stories, like fantasy and science fiction, to say those things covertly. And another fertile ground for hidden meanings is the...
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)...
Somnifère. Plus d'un millier d'anonymes et de célébrités russes se relayent depuis ce matin pour une lecture publique du roman fleuve de Léon Tolstoï Guerre et Paix diffusée sur internet, à la radio et à la télévision et qui doit durer 60 heures. Organisée...
More on the arte website "Les Oiseaux" (The Birds) Dimanche 09 juin à 20h45 "L'homme qui en savait trop" (The Man who knew too much) Lundi 10 juin à 20h50 "La Corde" (The Rope) Lundi 10 juin à 22h45 "Fenêtre sur cour" (Rear Window) Dimanche 16 juin à...
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner With: Glenn Close, Terrence Stamp, Max Irons, Stefanie Martini, Julian Sands, Gillian Anderson, Christina Hendricks, Christian McKay, Honor Kneafsey, Jenny Galloway. Rated PG-13 1 hour 55 minutes Official Site: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869347/...
Channel 4’s chief executive has warned that a sell-off of the broadcaster could be “devastating” for viewers who could lose some of their favourite shows, such as Catastrophe, Toast of London and Humans. David Abraham told a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch...
The fastest way to get a drama commissioned this autumn, it seems, has been to write in some criminal activity by law-breakers in corsets or spats. In addition to Peaky Blinders' 1920s gangland epic, the BBC also has Quirke, an Andrew Davies adaptation...
Cinema has a lot to teach us about the world - if we're willing to pay attention. Select independent cinemas in the US will be screening 1984 in protest of Donald Trump, specifically his alleged proposed cuts on cultural institutions, including the entire...
Donald Trump’s transition team is eyeing staggering cuts to the federal agencies that support the arts, humanities, and public broadcasting, the Hill reports. Under the team’s plan, the non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports public...
Here’s the first picture of Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins which has been released ahead of the return of the magical nanny in a new film. Blunt, 33, is replacing Julie Andrews in the title role in the follow-up to the 1964 film, Mary Poppins Returns, which...
The popularity of foreign imports such as The Killing, Borgen and French drama Spiral mean British TV audiences are becoming increasingly acclimatised to subtitling. But across the Channel, viewers are a little more reluctant to read while they’re watching,...
Brace yourselves Outlander fans - US network Starz has announced that we're going to have to wait a little longer for series three of the smash hit sci-fi drama because it won't air until September 2017. Advertising That means there'll be a *takes deep...
Colin Dexter, the author of the Inspector Morse books, has died aged 86. His publisher announced the news in a statement on Tuesday: “With immense sadness, MacMillan announces the death of Colin Dexter who died peacefully at his home in Oxford this morning.”...
Is it the bloke with the suspiciously bloody implement in his hand? Or maybe the arsenic-caked lady with the vulpine look and the large jug of arsenic? These are some of the questions the cast of Agatha Christie adaptation Crooked House may be asking...
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)...
