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• The BBC to announce Sunday adaptation of Les Misérables

  05 June 2016 ( #Andrew Davies, #BBC, #Les Misérables, #Victor Hugo )

  The BBC is to announce a new six-part Sunday night adaptation of Les Misérables , written by the man behind the corporation’s wildly successful production of War and Peace. Andrew Davies, who penned the recent BBC One adaptation of the Tolstoy epic, said...

• Meet the cast of War and Peace

  03 January 2016 ( #Andrew Davies, #BBC, #Tolstoy, #War & peace )

  Pierre Bezukhov (Paul Dano) The central character, Pierre is the ungainly illegitimate son of a nobleman. US actor Dano is best known for his film work in movies like Little Miss Sunshine, There Will be Blood, 12 Years a Slave and Prisoners, and recently...

• Sherlockmania (France Inter)

  01 January 2016 ( #BBC, #Christmas Special, #Conan Doyle, #Sherlock )

  l'émission du vendredi 1 janvier 2016 Sherlockmania Cumberbatch sur le tournage de Sherlock © Wikipedia - 2015 Charline Roux reçoit Sullivan Le Postec, spécialiste de la série « Sherlock » Ce soir sera diffusé outre-manche un épisode spécial de Sherlock....

• Benedict Cumberbatch on the Hollow Crown 2

  14 May 2016 ( #BBC, #Richard III, #Shakespeare, #The Hollow Crown 2 )

  Sleek and savage as a raven in sheeny blue-black robes, Benedict Cumberbatch is surrounded by a force-field of concentration; you can practically hear the crackle of synapses as he prepares to go on set as Shakespeare’s Richard III. A few feet away, Judi...

• Wolf Hall sur arte: premiers épisodes ce soir

  21 January 2016 ( #arte, #BBC, #Hilary Mantel, #Wolf Hall )

  Les livres d'histoire nous ont dépeint Thomas Cromwell, conseiller d'Henri VIII, comme l'exécuteur des basses œuvres du royaume. Cette magnifique série de Peter Kosminsky, inspirée par les tableaux du Caravage et éclairée à la bougie, en fait un personnage...

• Sherlock back in time in Victorian London

  01 January 2016 ( #BBC, #Conan Doyle, #PBS, #Sherlock )

  They finally got Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes to put on that iconic deerstalker cap. In an episode from the second series of Masterpiece’s contemporary-set Sherlock, the title character impulsively uses the hat most associated with the literary...

• BBC to screen racy version of Tolstoy epic

  29 November 2015 ( #Andrew Davies, #BBC, #Leo Tolstoy, #War and Peace )

  It is considered by many to be the greatest novel ever written – an enthralling tale of epic love and cold-hearted betrayal played out against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. But the BBC’s new adaptation of War And Peace has left scholars of the...

• The Man in the High Castle (Amazon)

  20 November 2015 ( #Amazon Prime, #Frank Spotnitz, #Philip K. Dick, #The Man in the High Castle )

  Big-budget alternative history drama The Man in the High Castle is the latest Original Series to drop on Amazon Prime. "It is based on a novel by Philip K Dick," creator Frank Spotnitz explains. "It takes place in 1962 in a world where the allies have...

• First look at War and Peace for a new generation

  12 August 2015 ( #Andrew Davies, #BBC, #Leo Tolstoy, #War and Peace )

  When it was last on television, it took an epic 20 episodes to tell the sprawling story of love, family and Napoleonic war in Tolstoy’s Russia. The BBC's latest version, more than four decades on, has enlisted Lily James , Andrew Davies and a cast of...

• New cast for the new adaptation of Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf

  13 March 2015 ( #Beowulf, #Game of Thrones, #ITV, #poem )

  William Hurt will play the role of mythical Danish king Hrothgar in ITV's Game of Thrones-style take on Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. The four-time Oscar-nominated US actor, more recently known for his performance in David Cronenburg's A History of Violence...

• In French: Austen Power

  23 February 2015 ( #Bride & Prejudice, #Bridget Jones, #Clueless, #Jane Austen )

  «ll y a le sac en tissu “Keep Calm and Read Jane Austen”. Quelques badges. Des aimants. Un jeu de tarot. Des cartes postales. Des carnets et aussi la figurine en plastique, qui vient directement de la ville de Bath. Elle est affreuse, mais drôle. » Alice,...

• Hilary Mantel on the TV Wolf Hall

  18 January 2015 ( #BBC, #BBC Two, #Hilary Mantel, #Wolf Hall )

  In the City of London, behind the Bank of England, there is a little street called Austin Friars. Sober and narrow, it offers glimpse of a city garden, something sweetly natural at the granite heart of the establishment. The garden belongs to Drapers’...

• Filming location

  27 December 2014 ( #BBC, #EF Benson, #filming location, #Mapp and Lucia )

  When the BBC made the decision to dramatise Mapp and Lucia, EF Benson’s series of comic novels that parody the snobbery and pretensions of the upper-middle-classes in 1930s small-town Britain, the only possible place they could film the series was in...

• Mapp and Lucia: meet the characters

  29 December 2014 ( #BBC, #BBC2, #EF Benson, #Mapp and Lucia )

  Devotees of EF Benson's 1930s series of comic novels, Mapp and Lucia, are in for a treat this Christmas: a three-part adaptation penned by Steve Pemberton (above, playing Lucia's camp, platonic friend Georgie), and starring Miranda Richardson and Anna...

• An interview with Maggie Smith

  29 November 2014 ( #Downton Abbey, #Maggie Smith, #Shakespeare, #television )

  "Do you know Paris?” The question is shamefully inconsequential, a piece of conversational putty while I am trying to process Dame Maggie Smith’s wicked, but entirely truthful, admission that she cannot remember much about her latest film, except that...

• In French: Dr Who apprend le code aux enfants

  21 October 2014 ( #BBC, #coding, #daleks, #Dr Who )

  VU SUR LE WEB La BBC a annoncé la mise en ligne d'un jeu éducatif basé sur les aventures du Docteur, enseignant de façon ludique au enfants les bases du codage informatique. La BBC a choisi d’utiliser l’univers fantastique de la plus ancienne série de...

• Pride & Prejudice & Zombies Resurrected

  11 September 2014 ( #Jane Austen, #Pride & Prejudice, #Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, #Seth Grahame-Smith )

  EXCLUSIVE: The adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride And Prejudice And Zombies has been seeking big-screen life ever since the smash mash-up novel was published in 2009 — but through a series of director changes, it sometimes looked like it had one...

• PORTRAIT DE FEMME lundi 25 août à 20h50 sur arte

  25 August 2014 ( #arte, #henry james, #jane campion, #the portrait of a lady )

  En 1872, Isabel Archer, jeune Américaine à l’esprit indépendant, rend visite à ses cousins anglais, les Touchett. À leur grande surprise, elle revendique la liberté de vivre et d’aimer, refusant les propositions de mariage de lord Warburton et d’un richissime...

• Jamaica Inn

  10 April 2014 ( #BBC, #BBC One, #Daphne du Maurier, #Jamaica Inn )

  Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic novel Jamaica Inn has been adapted by Emma Frost (The White Queen, Consuming Passion) and directed by BAFTA-winning director Philippa Lowthorpe (Call The Midwife, Five Daughters). It has been produced by Origin Pictures...

• The Musketeers return for a second series on the BBC

  10 April 2014 ( #Alexandre Dumas, #BBC, #BBC One, #The Musketeers )

  The first series premiered in January this year and proved a successful addition to the channel’s line-up, with a series average of 6.3 million across the 10 episodes, and the opening episode being the BBC’s third highest drama launch in the past decade....

• BBC Wolf Hall to be shot in National Trust properties

  09 May 2014 ( #BBC, #Hilary Mantel, #National Trust, #Wolf Hall )

  Based on Hilary Mantell's Booker Prize-winning novel, the new BBC production of Wolf Hallis currently filming at Bristol's Bottle Yard Studios in Whitchurch. The period drama, which includes agent Brody actor Damian Lewis, who will play Henry VIII, and...

• Sherlock on French Television - France 4

  20 February 2014 ( #France 4, #Mark Gatiss, #Sherlock, #Steven Moffatt )

  Le scénariste Steven Moffat travaille sur de nombreuses séries télévisées, comédies et drames, depuis le début des années 80. Après Press Gang, la toute première d’entre elles, il a écrit Joling Apart, Six Sexy et Chalk, une sitcom qui a pour cadre une...

• Dracula's Lair Gets a Modern Twist in NBC's New Drama

  12 February 2014 ( #Bram stoker, #Dracula, #NBC, #The Hollywood Reporter )

  David Lukacs/NBC The seductive tale of the most famous vampire of all time traditionally plays out against the crumbling, cobweb-covered walls of his Transylvania castle. Now the setting gets a more modern twist in NBC's upcoming primetime drama, premiering...

• Jane Austen Novel Illustrations From the Time Before Adaptations

  04 January 2014 ( #British Library, #illustrations, #Jane Austen, #Mansfield Park )

  Even if you are a hardcore Janeite, it’s likely difficult for you to separate your imaginative experience of Austen’s novels from the various film and television adaptations that have sprouted up in the last 20 years. Darcy just has to look like Colin...

• Pride & Prejudice & Zombies: first picture

  06 April 2015 ( #Jane Austen, #Pride & Prejudice, #Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, #Seth Grahame-Smith )

  To say that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has struggled to become a film would be putting it mildly. First announced roughly five years ago, the adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s zombie-laden revision of the Jane Austen classic has seen directors come...