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• Shakespeare's 450th birthday: adaptations on the big screen

  24 April 2014 ( #Hamlet, #Henry V, #Macbeth, #Midsummer Night's Dream, #Much Ado about Nothing, #Othello, #Richard III, #Shakespeare, #Titus Andronicus )

  “What’s past is prologue,” Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest. And he sure was right—for the work of the playwright, who was born 450 years ago today, is still performed not only on stage, but also—to even bigger audiences—on film. To celebrate Big Will’s...

• Vanity Fair sur Arte - December 2019

  22 December 2019 ( #arte, #Becky Sharp, #ITV, #Netflix, #review, #Thackeray, #trailer, #Vanity Fair )

  Read at the source: x La Foire aux vanités (Vanity Fair) , série créée par Gwyneth Hughes. Avec Olivia Cooke, Claudia Jessie , Tom Bateman , Johnny Flynn , Anthony Head , Frances de la Tour , Sian Clifford, Suranne Jones , David Fynn (GB., 2018, 7 x 46-48...

• Jane Austen' s Sanditon to be adapted for TV for the first time

  15 July 2018 ( #Andrew davies, #Emma, #ITV, #Jane Austen, #Persuasion, #popular culture, #Pride & Prejudice, #Sanditon )

  Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon is set to be adapted for TV for the very first time. The romantic novelist's final incomplete novel has been commissioned by ITV and has been written by Andrew Davies, who also wrote the screenplay for the BAFTA-winning...

• Tom Burke cast as Cormoran Strike for the BBC

  07 September 2016 ( #BBC, #Career of Evil, #Dumas, #JK Rowling, #The Cuckoo’s Calling, #The Musketeers, #The Silkworm, #War & Peace )

  “His height, his general hairiness, coupled with a gently expanding belly, suggested a grizzly bear,” wrote JK Rowling of Cormoran Strike. And while Tom Burke may have to strap on a prosthetic belly when he plays the war-damaged detective, otherwise he...

• In French: La BBC à l'assaut du chef-d'œuvre de Tolstoï

  04 November 2015 ( #andrew davies, #BBC, #classic novel, #costume drama, #Guerre et paix, #Tolstoï, #War & Peace, #Weinstein )

  Lorsque les producteurs hollywoodiens Weinstein se mettent à la série télévisée, le résultat est aussi stupéfiant que pour leurs longs-métrages couverts d'oscars. La BBC a diffusé une première bande-annonce de son costume-drama à venir, Guerre et Paix,...

• 1995-2015: Pride & Prejudice (BBC-A. Davies)

  26 September 2015 ( #Andrew Davies, #anniversary, #BBC, #classic-novel adaptations, #Jane Austen, #Mr Darcy, #Pop Culture, #Pride & Prejudice )

  Oh, Pride and Prejudice miniseries, you must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. The iconic BBC serial, directed by Simon Langton and starring Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet and Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, first aired its first episode...

• In French: GoT, une libre transposition de l'écrit

  13 April 2015 ( #A song of Ice and Fire, #D&D, #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #HBO, #sous-titrage, #spoilers )

  En quelques mots, résumons quarante heures de série. Au jeu des trônes, apparaît d’abord le roi de Westeros, Robert Barathéon. Succédant au roi fou d’une autre dynastie, il règne, puis meurt. S’annonce alors une guerre entre des prétendants au trône....

• Game of Thrones spoilers: Books-readers VS. show-watchers

  10 April 2015 ( #A Song of Ice and Fire, #adapting a work in progress, #deviation, #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #HBO, #re-telling, #spoilers )

  SPOILERS Everything you need to know about HBO’s Game of Thrones’s incredibly significant fifth season is revealed by its ubiquitous advertisements for Sunday’s premiere. Tyrion Lannister, adrift on the prow of a ship, headed uncertainly into a patch...

• How ‘Game of Thrones’ Gets Written

  03 April 2015 ( #D&D, #from page to screen, #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #HBO, #screenwriting, #spoilers )

  There’s a recurring prophecy in George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire: “Three heads has the dragon.” Maybe it means something about the heroes who will save Westeros from the White Walkers. Maybe it’s nothing but a shout-out...

• The Hollow Crown 2: Filming is imminent

  20 September 2014 ( #BBC, #BBC Two, #Benedict Cumberbatch, #Henry VI, #Judi Dench, #Richard III, #Shakespeare, #The Hollow Crown )

  Dame Judi Dench appeared to sign up to BBC2’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III after actor Benedict Cumberbatch asked her on stage during this year’s Hay Festival, “Would you like to be in Richard III with me?” And with her casting officially announced...

• China imports British TV

  04 November 2014 ( #British imports, #British television, #Downton Abbey, #Lewis, #Marple, #Poirot, #Sherlock, #The Musketeers )

  Sales of British TV shows overseas grew 5% to almost £1.28bn last year, with formats such as The X Factor and The Great British Bake Off and dramas including Downton Abbey and Sherlock proving global hits. The annual TV export report, published on Monday...

• The Guardian: GRRM podcast

  12 August 2014 ( #A Song of Ice and Fire, #Edinburgh international book festival, #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #Shakespeare, #Sir Walter Scott, #The Guardian, #Tolkien )

  The success of HBO's Game of Thrones has propelled George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series into the stratosphere. But as he tells an Edinburgh international book festival audience, he is first and foremost a novelist who traces a literary lineage...

• New Sherlock episodes coming.

  30 June 2014 ( #BBC, #Christmas Special, #Conan Doyle, #Mark Gatiss, #Martin Freeman, #Sherlock, #Steven Moffat, #The Blue Carbuncle )

  Sherlock fans could be looking at an 18 month wait for their next fix of the detective drama – and even then they might get just one episode rather than the usual three... A period of filming in early 2015 "looks pretty likely" according to Martin Freeman...

• Sanditon to return for seasons 2 and 3

  10 May 2021 ( #Andrew Davies, #cliffhanger, #ITV, #Jane Austen, #PBS, #Sanditon, #unfinished )

  Good news for Sanditon fans: the Jane Austen adaptation will be returning for a new series after all. The period drama has been renewed for a second and third run, airing first as an exclusive on BritBox UK before being broadcast on ITV at a later date....

• Dracula

  22 July 2017 ( #BBC, #Bram Stoker, #Dr Who, #Dracula, #Mark Gatiss, #Sherlock, #Stephen Moffat )

  The Sherlock team are reuniting on a new version of the classic horror story Dracula, RadioTimes.com can confirm. Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss are due to begin work on a series of BBC specials based on the classic 1897 novel by Bram Stoker in which the...

• Howards End tonight on arte (November 12th, 2017)

  12 November 2017 ( #Agrégation, #arte, #CAPES, #Concours, #EM Forster, #Howard End, #James Ivory )

  Londres, au début du XXe siècle. Les soeurs Schlegel, bourgeoises émancipées, lient leur destin à la riche famille Wilcox... James Ivory signe sa troisième adaptation de E. M. Forster après "Chambre avec vue" et "Maurice". Anthony Hopkins, glaçant, et...

• BBC and ITV to develop US streaming service

  13 December 2016 ( #BBC, #Brideshead Revisited, #Britbox, #Inspector Morse, #ITV, #Pride & Prejudice, #The Moonstone )

  US fans of British TV will be able to feast on shows ranging from EastEnders, Holby City and Cold Feet when new streaming service BritBox launches in the US next year. BritBox, which will become available before the end of March 2017, will open for business...

• WATCH “HOWARDS END”—THEN READ IT

  31 August 2016 ( #Agrégation, #CAPES, #Concours, #EM Forster, #Ismael Merchant, #James Ivory, #Towards End )

  This weekend, a new restoration of “Howards End,” the 1992 Merchant Ivory adaptation of E. M. Forster’s 1910 novel, starring Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Hopkins, and Vanessa Redgrave, began screening at Film Forum and the Paris Theatre;...

• War and Peace: top ratings and rave reviews

  04 January 2016 ( #Andrew Davies, #BBC, #episode 1, #ratings, #reviews, #Tolstoy, #War & Peace )

  The drama, which stars Paul Dano, Lily James and James Norton, has also won rave reviews. The adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel averaged 6.3 million viewers, peaking at 6.7 million. It was up against ITV's Endeavour and spy drama Deutschland 83 on Channel...

• Must-see Adaptations you must see at Christmas in the UK

  05 December 2015 ( #Agatha Christie, #and then there were none, #Conan Doyle, #JM Barrie, #Melville, #Moby Dick, #Sherlock )

  Sherlock (BBC1, New Year’s Day) The 90-minute special, titled The Abominable Bride, comes from a reference in a Sherlock Holmes short story to a man called Ricoletti, who had a club foot and an abominable wife. Writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have...

• UK: best TV on today, New Year's Day

  01 January 2016 ( #Conan Doyle, #David Walliams, #Dickens, #Dickensian, #Eastenders, #Sherlock, #soap opera )

  EastEnders, 6:30pm, 8:00pm, BBC1 Dean has finally been caught attacking Roxy by Shirley and she is determined that he will get his comeuppance. Elsewhere, Mick and Linda's wedding day draws nearer, with Dean returning to seek his revenge. Will the happy...

• GoT: Winds of Winter won't be released before the new TV series

  02 January 2016 ( #book VS. TV series, #Game of Thrones, #George RR Martin, #GoT, #GRRM, #spoilers, #The Winds of Winter )

  Will the show 'spoil' the novels? Maybe. Yes and no. Look, I never thought the series could possibly catch up with the books, but it has. The show moved faster than I anticipated and I moved more slowly. There were other factors too, but that was the...

• GoT: Why spoilers are a good thing.

  16 July 2015 ( #A Song of Ice and Fire, #D&D, #Game of Thrones, #george RR martin, #GoT, #HBO, #spoilers )

  Tonight, after only four years and five seasons of HBO’s adaptation, Game of Thrones, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are about to catch up and perhaps even pass George R.R. Martin’s telling of his own story. There’s good reason, though, for...

• The Outcast: A Review

  12 July 2015 ( #BBC, #BBC One, #Iain Softley, #review, #Sadie Jones, #spoilers, #The Outcast )

  Sadie Jones risked smashing a perfect thing when she signed up to adapt her book The Outcast (BBC1, Sunday) for television. The novel, one of my favourites, bursts with a fragile intensity that, while filmic, seemed unlikely to survive the transition....

• James McAvoy: "We shouldn’t do away with the BBC..."

  24 October 2015 ( #BBC, #BBC Radio 4, #Heart of Darkness, #James McAvoy, #Joseph Conrad, #Orson Welles, #radio drama )

  The list of celebrities supporting the BBC as it faces government cuts continues to grow, and now James McAvoy has followed his X-Men co-star Ian McKellen in expressing his belief in the value of the Corporation, as he returns for a new Radio 4 drama....