If Claude is looking anxious, he has good reason. According to the latest Radio Times, Andrew Davies has been talking to Tom Hollander (who wants to play Quasimodo) about doing an adaptation of NDdP…

Andrew Davies…

I am already worried about his Les Misérables…

That this (Doctor Who: Reign of Terror):

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was made the same year (the year before I was born!) as this (La Terreur et la Vertu):

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Although in the 1970s, BBC2 showed a subtitled version of Les Rois Maudits, and we now have subtitled French crime and thriller serials on BBC4, we have never had any decent French historical material on the Revolution ( Read more... )

The Beeb is talking about yet another adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
Why?
Austen makes me want to poke my own eyes out with a spoon. To quote my old friend Martin the Archæologist, who suffered the same A Level course in the year below me at school:
"Ever since enduring Mansfield Park I have thought that less chat and more Jacobins would be an ( Read more... )

Have been bingeing on Game of Thrones boxed sets with Dad. We are both hooked. Can't help but be highly amused, given that his step-gran was a Mrs Stark, via her first marriage…

The scriptwriter for the definitive 1974 serialisation of South Riding, Stan Barstow, has died aged 83.The obituary omits mention of it in his CV, so I have written to the Grauniad. When compared to Andrew Davies's 2011 BBC adaptation, it shows up what we have lost in TV drama over the past 30-odd years. This is not merely a matter of length and ( Read more... )

This Guardian article just caught my eye: very sad news for the Whoniverse.

I went to S'mug on Great George St this afternoon to meet Elma for a coffee. It was empty, apart from a tall, thin lad in a baseball cap at the counter. The waitresses were chatting to him about Hamlet. Interesting, I thought. Then I recognised him... ( Read more... )

Thanks to Lisa, I'm now getting to see this delightful BBC 3 comedy-dramaMitch and George are 2 young lads who work shifts at the hospital and share a house in Bristol: a haunted house (even if it is pink outside). The resident ghost is a girl of similar age, Annie. They get on brilliantly: after all, Mitch is a vampire ex-soldier from WW1, and ( Read more... )