BBC to adapt Hilary Mantel’s French Revolution book
Hilary Mantel has had a smash success with her Tudor-era historical novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, recently turned into a successful TV adaptation by the BBC, airing… Read more »
“Grim, grim, grim”? What kind of endings do British audiences like?
British television audiences have experienced their fair share of the grim and gloomy in recent times. Scandi-crime exports such as ‘The Killing’ and ‘The Bridge’ brought hard violence and murder… Read more »
Royal Shakespeare Company’s Wolf Hall headed to Broadway
No longer content merely to perform William Shakespeare’s history plays about the Lancastrian and Tudor kings, the Royal Shakespeare Company started performing stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s historical novels, Wolf… Read more »
Damian Lewis set to play Henry VIII in Mantel adaptation
Hilary Mantel’s award-winning series of novels about Thomas Cromwell are getting the big adaptation treatment from the BBC, and as of last week, they’ve found their royal actor: Damian Lewis,… Read more »