Sentences with phrase «british television adaptation»

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Most 21st century viewers, however, are familiar only with the four - part Granada Television adaptation, which made its first British TV appearance on December 1, 1996.

Filmed for British television in 1991, Black Velvet Gown is a two - part adaptation of Catherine Cookson's novel.

He's a fine British actor who distinguished himself in, among other efforts, the most recent television adaptation of THE FORSYTE SAGA.

Screenwriter Diablo Cody has the hot hand in television development these days, with Variety reporting that ABC has nabbed Cody's latest television project, an American adaptation of the British family comedy Raised By Wolves.

One of the great British plays about life in the theatre returns to the screen in Richard Eyre's television adaptation of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser starring Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen.

The British scribe has largely been responsible for many UK miniseries and television series, working on Skins, Castoffs, The Fades, This is England, Glue, National Treasure and the upcoming small screen adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams.

As if a sober and respectful adaptation of an earnest and leisurely nineteenth - century novel could still compete for eyes and ears in a twenty - first - century entertainment environment engineered to entice instead the sex - crazed, the violence junkies, and the attention - deficit - disordered — as if even the oil companies hadn't bailed on public television's Masterpiece Theatre because nobody seems to care anymore about character as destiny versus the British class system — here without apology are three more hours of Thomas Hardy moping about old Wessex, looking in vain for a laugh.

The big question mark is director Goold, who is making his debut here after directing a couple of British Shakespeare adaptations for television.

This week the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. gets a big screen update starring Armie Hammer (The Social Network) and Henry Cavill (Man of Steel), and yet another 1960s television adaptation is on the way in 2016 with the British comedy Dad's Army.

Lauded by critics for many years, in the space of five weeks, Dano has become the toast of British television, his subtle and complex depiction of the ever - suffering Bezukhov stealing almost every scene in Andrew Davies» # 10m Tolstoy adaptation.

Frost / Nixon (R for profanity) Ron Howard directs this screen adaptation of the Tony - winning Broadway play recounting the series of television interviews conducted by British talk show David Frost (Michael Sheen) with Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) in 1977, three years after the disgraced U.S. President resigned from office in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

The grounds of this spectacular Tudor - cum - Italian palace were host to one of the most iconic moments in British television: Mr Darcy, played by Colin Firth, emerging from the lake in the 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.