Channel 4 have set a date for The Great season 3 – it returns on Monday, 8th July, having dropped stateside on Hulu in May. The show is an alternative historical satire which based on the life of Catherine the Great of Russia. Elle Fanning stars as Catherine, with Nicholas Hoult as her husband Emperor … >
Channel 4’s The Great series 1 is a ten-part comedy drama coming on Sunday January 3 at 9pm As Channel 4’s press release puts it: The Great is a satirical, comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest reigning female ruler in Russia’s history. It’s a modern love story that … >
Zadie Smith’s 2012 novel does not lend itself easily to a screen adaptation. It’s a woozily beautiful essay of deceptively simple parts, demanding to play linguistic games with the reader in such apparently simple scenes as a boy fishing a telephone out of his pocket, or two children answering the question ‘Who’s your best friend?’ … >
A trailer has been unveiled for BBC Two’s upcoming adaptation of White Teeth author Zadie Smith’s novel NW. The 90-minute drama has been adapted by director Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy) and writer Rachel Bennette (Bel Ami) with Mammoth Screen, the makers of Poldark and Parade’s End. Nikki Amuka-Bird (Luther, Small Island) and Phoebe Fox (A View From The Bridge, Life In Squares) lead the cast … >
The first trailer for Stephen Poliakoff’s new BBC Two drama Close to the Enemy has been released. Written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, the six-part series is mainly set in a bomb-damaged London hotel in the aftermath of the Second World War. Jim Sturgess (One Day) leads the cast, alongside Freddie Highmore (Bates Motel), Angela Bassett (American … >
The cast been announced for BBC Two’s upcoming adaptation of White Teeth author Zadie Smith’s novel NW. The 90-minute film will be adapted for TV by director Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy) and writer Rachel Bennette (Bel Ami) with Mammoth Screen, the makers of Poldark and Parade’s End. Nikki Amuka-Bird (Luther, Small Island) and Phoebe Fox (A View From The Bridge, Life In Squares) will … >
Life in Squares is BBC Two’s new drama about the Bloomsbury group. 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. > Order Life in Squares … >
Choose life. Choose art. Choose literature. Choose ripping off your corset and bloomers at the bedroom window. Choose a back alley hand job from a local bit of rough without being caught by the Old Bill. Choose dissipation, copulation, sodomy, isonomy and low rent pornography. Choose famous economists, snooty critics and highly-strung cousins with miracle-grow … >
BBC Two has released a trailer for Life in Squares, the channel’s new drama about the Bloomsbury group. Written by BAFTA Award-winning Amanda Coe (Room At The Top), the three-part mini-series 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 … >
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 … >