There's something slightly unreal about these final couple of days before we start work at the location for Julius Caesar. If all goes well, cleaning and prepping the site starts tomorrow, and then the art department will get going on more
The first day of the location shoot for our film version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Julius Caesar is now just over seven weeks away. We have found our location and we are putting together our crew. BBC Four's funding more
I have been reading the late Tony Richardson's memoir Long Distance Runner. (I know I promised a Julius Caesar update, but that waits on a RSC press release - tomorrow, I hope.) It is not clear whether Richardson's more
Tomorrow Arts Council England and the BBC announce the projects to be funded for this summer's exciting digital arts project The Space (see my earlier post Make it new). I did some initial consultancy for The Space but more
So why is Randall Wright's 90-minute documentary Lucian Freud: Painted Life (on iPlayer until 25 February) the BBC's best film about a visual artist for many a year? The compelling subject helps of course, as do the remarkable more
To BFI Southbank for a most engaging day exploring small-screen adaptations of Charles Dickens. Three sessions throughout Saturday featured a host of fascinating clips and a number of engaging guests. In the morning, writer, curator and co-conceiver of more
Although I have no easy way of checking, there must be hundreds of films - and quite likely thousands - that feature David Hockney. By the end of the week, with the opening of David Hockney RA: A more
Yes, my friends, this is another Dickens-themed post (following on from the recent What larks and The film of the films of the books). Or at least the start of it is, because across the jump there's more
Headline: while The Mystery of Edwin Drood, part one of which we saw on BBC Two tonight, has much to recommend it, the television treat of the evening - and indeed most certainly of the year to more
Twice before I've looked back to what lay ahead for viewers fifty years ago. The Illuminations blog archive (which holds pretty much everything we've ever published) has my post about the television year that was 1960 as well more