BBC Two has unveiled a set of promotional photos for Life in Squares, the channel’s new drama about the Bloomsbury group. The three-part series stars Phoebe Fox as Vanessa Bell, Lydia Leonard as Virginia Woolf, James Norton (Happy Valley) as Duncan Grant, Sam Hoare as Clive Bell, Edmund Kingsley as Maynard Keynes, Ed Birch as … >
Life in Squares, BBC Two’s new drama about the Bloomsbury group, will begin later this month. Written by BAFTA Award-winning Amanda Coe (Room At The Top), the three-part serial dramatises the exceptionally close, often fraught relationship of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s enduring, sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant. The … >
Further cast additions have been revealed for BBC One’s new adaptation of War and Peace. Adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s literary masterpiece by Mr Selfridge writer Andrew Davies, the six one-hour episodes will “bring the classic to life for a modern audience on a truly epic scale”. Jim Broadbent (Harry Potter) will appear as Prince Bolkonsky, … >
The cast has been revealed for BBC One’s epic new adaptation of War And Peace. Adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s literary masterpiece by Mr Selfridge writer Andrew Davies, the six one-hour episodes will star James Norton (Grantchester), Paul Dano (12 Years A Slave) and Lily James (Downton Abbey). Directed by Tom Harper (Peaky Blinders), War and … >
ITV has commissioned a second season of Grantchester. Set in the Cambridgeshire hamlet of Grantchester in the early 1950s, Grantchester launched last month on ITV, averaging a consolidated audience of 6.6 million viewers and a 24% share of the audience. Season 2 will begin filming in London and Grantchester next year, starring James Norton and … >
The final Grantchester flashes back to the initial post-war encounter between Sidney and Amanda that began their current relationship; and it ends with Sidney and Geordie, two slightly battered heroes, walking through a sunny afternoon into the future. Between those two extremes, the crime of the week recalls the horrors of the War and asks … >
TV detective dramas usually reinvent their world each week, so that other than the detectives themselves there is no connection from one story to another. With its star-crossed lovers and its ‘domestic’ elements, Grantchester has already set itself out as something a little different. This week we’re away from the village itself and instead find … >
James Norton (Happy Valley) leads the cast of ITV’s new new six-part drama Grantchester this autumn as Sidney Chambers, alongside Robson Green (Wire In The Blood) as Police Inspector, Geordie Keating. Set in 1953 in the beautiful county of Cambridgeshire, Sidney’s unlikely partnership with gruff, down to earth Geordie is central to Grantchester. Geordie’s methodical … >
ITV has released a new one-minute trailer for Grantchester, the channel’s upcoming crime drama set in Cambridgeshire in 1953. The six-part series stars Robson Green (Strike Back) as over-worked Police Inspector, Geordie Keating, alongside James Norton (Happy Valley) as Sidney Chambers. Adapted from James Runcie’s novel, ‘Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death’, and written … >
BBC One has revealed the cast for Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio’s new adaptation of DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, from the makers of Sherlock. Holliday Grainger (Tulip Fever) will play Lady Chatterley with James Norton (Happy Valley) as her war-wounded husband Sir Clifford Chatterley and Richard Madden (Game Of Thrones) as gamekeeper Oliver … >