because life is too short
Daniel Deronda, a BBC TV production based on the novel by George Eliot,1 is a story set in Victorian London. A rich, selfish woman named Gwendolen Harleth (played by Romola Garai) falls in love with a kind, gentle man named Daniel Deronda (Hugh Dancy). But for reasons of money, she marries a snotty fellow named Henleigh [...]
The classic Parade’s End tetralogy by Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is being given the classy BBC/HBO treatment in a five-part miniseries scheduled to air in 2012. The script was penned by playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter, Tom Stoppard, and the cast list is mighty promising, too, including Miranda Richardson, Rebecca Hall, Rupert Everett, and new Clan [...]
Created by Ken Burns The National Parks is a 2009 PBS documentary series created from the master of documentaries, Ken Burns. This tells the story of the history of the United States National Parks. However, this documentary focuses much more on the events that threatened the parks and its most historical figures that had to [...]
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