BBC One to adapt ‘The Lady Vanishes’ for Christmas
BBC One has announced the commission of The Lady Vanishes, a one-off adaptation of Ethel Lina White’s 1936 novel, The Wheel Spins.
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BBC One has announced the commission of The Lady Vanishes, a one-off adaptation of Ethel Lina White’s 1936 novel, The Wheel Spins.
The BBC has announced the commission of Frankie, a new six-part drama series for BBC One about the life and work of a dedicated district nurse.
The gruesome aftermath of the bombing, all flaming corpses and limbless survivors, is gorily well-realised, but the moment that lingers longest in the memory is much more modest.
One can only assume that ITV1’s Titanic was scripted in-between sips of a G&T on the Downton Abbey set.
It can’t be denied that The Walking Dead started dark and got progressively gloomier over the course of its first two seasons. To be fair, a show about the zombie apocalypse was hardly going to be all sweetness and light, was it? YES, ACTUALLY. It’s all a question of interpretation. Just chuck in a jaunty … >
It was large, grand and – with so many talented names on board – hyped up to be pretty much unsinkable, but ITV1’s Titanic seems to have foundered on the iceberg of a fragmented and repetitive narrative.
Kicking things off this month, we have the first foray into this genre by verbose Clerks/Mallrats/Cop Out director Kevin Smith, the thinly veiled Waco siege satire Red State.
Luther creator Neil Cross has revealed that the upcoming third series will “wrap up Luther as a TV show”.
Written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, ITV1’s new Titanic drama serial begins next month, marking the hundredth anniversary of the disaster.
Written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, ITV1’s new Titanic drama serial begins next month, marking the hundredth anniversary of the disaster.