The film’s release comes in the wave of commemorations of the centenary of the First World War. Although it’s now more than 80 years since the publication of Vera Brittain’s remarkable memoir recounting her experiences nursing soldiers wounded in the...
Mark Gatiss is looking conspiratorial in the latest pictures to be released for BBC Tudor drama Wolf Hall. The cast photos for the BBC1 adaptation feature the Sherlock star in fur-lined black robes and a rather peculiarly-shaped hat. Gatiss plays Thomas...
Damian Lewis as Henry VIII BBC2’s six-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies has been filmed and the BBC is privately convinced that the drama is going to be a hit. In fact, such is their expectation that the...
Author PD James has died, aged 94, her family has confirmed in a statement. "It is with great sadness that the family of author PD James, Baroness James of Holland Park OBE, FRSL, FRSA, announce that she died peacefully at her home in Oxford on the morning...
Three new promotional posters for Disney's live-action Cinderella give us a closer look at the film's impressive cast. Cinders (Lily James) and her Prince Charming (Richard Madden) can be seen sharing a loving embrace, while an elegant Helena Bonham Carter...
BBC America released a first look image for Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, a seven-part original drama series based on the bestselling novel by British author Susanna Clarke, premiering in 2015. The series, set in a reimagined 19th century England, was...
"I’m the most unpopular person on the set," declares Downton Abbey's historical adviser Alastair Bruce when RadioTimes.com meets him. "Everybody is geared up and ready to go. The director knows how he or she is going to block the scene, the actors arrive...
From left: Timothy Spall, Jack Farthing, Mark Williams and Jennifer Saunders in Blandings Photograph: Aiden Monaghan/BBC/Mammoth Screen NI Limited When the BBC brings Blandings Castle and its inhabitants to the screen tomorrow, another skirmish in the...
Jessica Raine will appear with David Walliams in a new Agatha Christie TV adaptation on BBC1. As RadioTimes.com first reported in February, The Little Britain writer will appear in Partners in Crime, joined by the Call The Midwife actress as Agatha Christie’s...
The Wind In The Willows is set to be the next classic children’s favourite to return to British TV screens. Kenneth Grahame’s much-loved books about the adventures of Mole, Rat and Toad are being reimagined in a 52-part series called Wind In The Willows:...
Benedict Cumberbatch is making a habit of getting wet for charity. Last time it was in a series of increasingly ridiculous Ice Bucket Challenges that eventually saw the Sherlock star stripping off his underpants and getting into the shower. This time...
BBC Television News is 60 years old at 7.30pm on 5 July 2014. Over the past six decades, BBC Television News has reported on all the landmark news stories and pivotal moments from the first man on the moon, Churchill’s resignation, the assassination of...
Photo: Theo Westenberg (Entertainment Weekly) JANE AUSTEN She doesn't go to the see-and-be-seen parties. She's reticent with the press. There are nasty rumors that she engaged in an incestuous relationship with her sister, for God's sake. And frankly,...
She made her name as the elegant Lady Sybil in Downton Abbey, but now Jessica Brown Findlayis getting down and dirty for her new leading role in the small screen adaption of Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn. The actress plays the headstrong Mary Yellan...
There are probably a fair few Sherlock fans who wouldn’t mind getting close to Benedict Cumberbatch’s dressing gown, and soon they’ll have the chance – although, sadly, the actor won’t be in it. The luxury Derek Rose gown will appear alongside Cumberbatch’s...
The wait is over. This is what Peter Capaldi’s Doctor looks like in his new role. Or is it? It's actually what he looks like wearing Matt Smith’s costume after the regeneration, which millions of fans witnessed during the Christmas special. It is, however,...
Emily Brontë and Jane Austen. Photograph: Stock/Montage/Getty Images Jane Austen v Emily Brontë, an Intelligence Squared debate, was also John Mullan v Kate Mosse, but for much of it the professor and the novelist seemed too well mannered, too eager to...
from wikipedia: "Serialized fiction surged in popularity during Britain's Victorian era, due to a combination of the rise of literacy, technological advances in printing, and improved economics of distribution. A significant majority of 'original' novels...
Encouragée par les progrès techniques, la presse connaît au 19ème siècle un formidable essor – c’est la naissance d’une industrie. Autrefois réservée à l’élite, elle se popularise sous l’impulsion d’une baisse des coûts de production et de l’augmentation...
“Downton Abbey” thesp Laura Carmichael, Olivier Gourmet and Logan Marshall-Green have joined the cast of “Madame Bovary,” which begins shooting Monday in Normandy, France. Mia Wasikowska stars in the title role along with Ezra Miller, Paul Giamatti, Rhys...
Winds of Winter release date news time. By news I mean "mostly speculation," but to ease up your delirium thronems, I've taken the liberty of gathering up everything we know about when the next book will come out. George R. R. Martin is not a machine....
The period set was readied as Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny prepared to shoot new scenes for forthcoming drama Love And Friendship on Wednesday. The co-stars were dressed in character ahead of an exterior shoot in Dublin, and both caught the eye as...
Après le festival Séries Mania qui se tenait à Lille jusqu'au 5 mai, le Palais des Beaux Arts propose une exposition qui met en lumière l'influence des œuvres d'arts sur les séries télé, et en particulier sur leurs décors. Une expérience inédite à découvrir...
Elisabeth Moss is moving on from Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, one bonnet at a time. The first-look photos for Moss's upcoming Hulu drama The Handmaid's Tale have been released , and it's safe to say things aren't looking too fine and dandy in the dystopian...
The Radio Times The beginnings It all began in spring 1923, when John Reith, the BBC's first director-general, received an ultimatum from the Newspaper Publishers' Association warning him that if the corporation didn't pay a hefty fee, none of the NPA's...
