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• Le tournage de Game of Thrones relance le tourisme en Irlande du Nord (blog lemonde.fr)

  10 July 2013 ( #fantasy, #Game of Thrones, #George R.R. Martin, #HBO, #winter is coming )

  credits at the source source: bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr, 9 juillet 2013. click to read in French

• Bridget Jones; Colin Firth in a wet shirt again!

  01 December 2013 ( #Andrew Davies, #Bridget Jones, #Jane Auster, #Pride & Prejudice )

  Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

• Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

  31 October 2013 ( #cinema version, #Dorset, #Hardy, #set design )

  source: bbc (click on the link to read more) The area outside Sherborne Abbey is being turned into a market with "fish and vegetable sellers", according to set decorator Niamh Coulter

• Mr Darcy as a statue

  08 July 2013 ( #Andrew Davies, #Austen, #Mr Darcy, #Pride & Prejudice )

  Photograph: David Parry/PA source: the guardian (click to read) About the same topic, read in French : Le Figaro

• BBC adaptation of Jamaica Inn

  29 March 2014 ( #BBC, #Daphne Du Maurier, #Jamaica Inn, #Jessica Brown Findlay )

  Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier (Rebecca) for Easter on the BBC.

• Wolf Hall on the cover of the RadioTimes this week

  12 January 2015 ( #BBC, #hilary mantel, #radiotimes, #wolf hall )

  By Kasia Delgado 12 January 2015 Another Tuesday, another jam-packed edition of Radio Times magazine. Here's what's inside this week... -Hilary Mantel on why she turned Thomas Cromwell from villain to Tudor hero -Damian Lewis on how his Eton schooldays...

• The locations in North & South

  10 June 2013 ( #BBC, #Gaskell, #locations, #North & South )

  The industrial North: filming locations of North & South: (x)

• The BBC to adapt Choderlos de Laclos?

  15 November 2013 ( #BBC, #Choderlos de Laclos, #Christopher Hampton, #French literature )

  No official announcement from the BBC itself but you can learn more: here and here (credits: deadline and digitalspy)

• Shakespeare on TV

  07 June 2013 ( #recommended reading, #Shakespeare, #The Hollow Crown )

  The Hollow Crown: as good as TV Shakespeare can get? Read the article: link (source: The Guardian - June 2012)

• Happy Birthday Dr Who

  23 November 2013 ( #BBC, #Dr Who, #France4 )

  About the anniversary episode and the series: In English: bbc.co.uk link (video) In French: franceinfo.fr link (audio) Soirée spécial Dr Who sur france4: link In the French press today: Libération Week-end, Samedi 23 & dimanche 24 novembre 2013 avant-goût:...

• Call the Midwife (series one) on French Television

  13 February 2014 ( #BBC, #Call the Midwife, #Jennifer Worth )

  sur D8, 3 épisodes tous les vendredis à partir du 14 février 2014. Episode 1: Drama set in London's East End during the 1950s, based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth. A newly qualified midwife begins her career alongside an order of nursing nuns.

• £500k appeal to revamp station that appeared in Downton Abbey and Poirot

  24 October 2021 ( #Downton Abbey, #heritage, #Poirot )

  continue reading : x

• Olivia Colman is Miss Havisham in first look at Great Expectations

  24 August 2022 ( #BBC, #Dickens, #Great Expectations, #Miss Havisham, #Peaky Blinders )

• La Reine Margot (1994)

  13 October 2013 ( #Alexandre Dumas, #Danièle Thompson, #La Reine Margot, #Patrice Chéreau )

• Published from Overblog

  11 July 2018 ( #Andrew Davies, #ITV, #Jane Austen, #Sanditon )

  Jane Austen‘s final, unfinished novel is being adapted by screenwriter Andrew Davies, who previously adapted the Colin Firth-starring Pride and Prejudice, into an ITV series. Telling the story of the ”joyously impulsive, spirited and unconventional Charlotte...

• Dracula (BBC)

  10 January 2020 ( #BBC, #Bram Stoker, #Dracula )

• How much the BBC channels cost

  05 March 2014 ( #BBC )

  How much the BBC TV channels cost Source: BBC Annual Report

• GoT helps you correct your grammar

  22 May 2015 ( #Game of Thrones, #GoT, #HBO )

• War & Peace: Who's Who?

  06 November 2016 ( #BBC, #Leo Tolstoy, #War & Peace )

• The licence fee : 20 years ago vs. today

  27 November 2014 ( #BBC, #licence fee )

• Owen Teale

  02 May 2014

  Captain Fluellen in Henry V (The Hollow Crown) Alliser Thorne in Game of Thrones Mr. Drummle in Great Expectations (TV Mini-Series - 1991) Ham Peggotty in David Copperfield (TV Mini-Series - 1986) source: imdb

• Jane Austen to appear on £10 banknote (cont.)

  14 August 2013 ( #banknote, #Jane Austen )

• Salon des Séries et du Doublage - Paris - Samedi 22 novembre

  19 November 2014 ( #doublage, #sérialement vôtre )

• The top 16 Jane Austen film and TV adaptations

  20 November 2021 ( #Andrew Davies, #Bride & Prejudice, #Bridget Jones, #Clueless, #Emma, #Jane Austen, #Love & Friendship, #Pride & Prejudice, #Sanditon, #zombies )

  continue reading : x

• How to read Shakespeare for pleasure

  23 April 2020 ( #BBC, #Emma Smith, #Hamlet, #Henry IV, #Macbeth, #Richard III, #Shakespeare, #The Hollow Crown, #The Taming of the Shrew )

  1. Ignore the footnotes 2. Pay attention to the shape of the lines 3. Read small sections 4. Think like a director 5. Don’t worry