The highly anticipated television series bears the title The Rings of Power. Amazon Studios have unveiled the full title, and some details, of their upcoming Middle Earth show. Set thousands of years the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, it’s officially titled The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. … >
The untitled LOTR (Lord of the Rings) prequel has finished filming — there’s a distant release date and first look image We now know when we will get Middle Earth on Amazon Prime; it’s just finished filming and will be on screen September 2022, the 2nd to be precise. It’s a lot of wait for … >
BBC One’s “visceral multi-part series” retelling the fall of Troy has begun filming on location in Cape Town. The eight-part series is created by The Night Manager writer David Farr and is a co-production between the BBC and Netflix. Troy: Fall Of A City will star Louis Hunter (The Fosters) and Bella Dayne (Humans) as Paris and … >
Amazon has confirmed that Ripper Street will come to an end with its next season. The period crime drama’s fifth season has started filming in Dublin and will premiere on Amazon Prime Video later in 2016. The final episodes will see Joseph Mawle (In the Heart of the Sea) rejoin the series as Detective Inspector … >
Halowe’en may have come and gone, but if you’re still looking for scares, you could do a lot worse than Irish horror The Hallow. Coming out at the same time as one of the most successful Irish films ever (Brooklyn), The Hallow offers a very different look at the Emerald Isle, taking the beautiful countryside, … >
For a drama about war, a surprising amount of dying happens quietly off-screen in the concluding part of Philip Martin’s adaptation of Birdsong, to devastating effect.
So far this is a wonderful take on a novel that has proved notoriously hard to adapt to the screen since its publication in 1993.
Yesterday we went along to the BAFTA screening of BBC One’s upcoming First World War epic to see what she and director Philip Martin have made of Faulks’ elusive narrative.