Telly that bridges the Pond
The 2015 Fall TV Season kicks off this month with some of the most highly-anticipated British TV programs of the year. The ones in the title of this post, for a start.
As told through the lens of documentarian Frederick Wiseman, the story of the National Gallery is as layered, rich, and engaging as the masterpieces of art housed in the London institution.
There might be a Downton Abbey film after its sixth and final series. Idris Elba has spoken of making a Luther film, too. What’s certain is that three other hit Brit series are headed for the big screen.
Powerhouses of the big and small screen are joining another, Jim Broadbent, in the film based on the bestselling novel The Sense of an Ending.
As filming has started on the Downton Abbey 2015 Christmas special — the final episode ever — Mr. Bates, I mean Brendan Coyle, has signed on for the Irish drama The Rising.
It’s summer blockbuster time, but CGI special effects and animation have nothin’ on the slapstick and word play of Shakespeare’s farcical The Comedy of Errors, which arrives in cinemas across the US and UK next week.