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Category Archives: Television
Brideshead in “Yorkshirewood”
The Yorkshire Post in a recent article recounts the large number of films and TV series that have been set or filmed in Yorkshire, giving much of the credit for this to an agency called Screen Yorkshire. The most recent … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Film, Television
Tagged Castle Howard, Yorkshire Post
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Echoes of Waugh in New Morse Prequel Series
ITV in the U.K. is running the third series of its Morse prequel which is concluding this week. This is entitled Endeavour and is based on Morse’s early career in the Oxford police force in the 1960s. There seems to be … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Oxford, Television
Tagged Endeavour, ITV, Lewis, Masterpiece Theatre, Morse, PBS
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Waugh, Boyd and Manning
Evelyn Waugh is mentioned several times in an interview of novelist, critic and screenwriter William Boyd published in the Australian Financial Review. The interviewer (Joe Aston) notes that Boyd’s fiction has been compared with Waugh’s from his very first published novel … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Put Out More Flags, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television, World War II
Tagged AFR, Daily Mail, Peter Hitchens, William Boyd
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Brideshead Castle vs. Downton Abbey
Today’s Op-Ed pages in the New York Times carry a story (“The Stately Gift Shops of England”) about the English country house. This is by novelist Charles Lambert who credits this institution’s survival to the heritage industry and its primary advocate, the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Television, Television Programs, Waugh Family
Tagged Castle Howard, Charles Lambert, Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle, New York Times
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Battle at “Brideshead”
The Sunday Telegraph and Mail on Sunday both carry reports of a sibling battle at Castle Howard over the running and occupancy of the estate. The North Yorkshire estate was the setting for both film adaptations of Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. Waugh himself had … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Diaries, Film, Television
Tagged Castle Howard, Inheritance
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Waugh Novel Recommended in Gift List
A Waugh novel has been selected for a list of potential gifts to be given to “conservative gentlemen.” The list appears on the weblog The Imaginative Conservative. The criteria for inclusion provide that the gift must be “quality if not…costly” (avoiding ties, … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Television
Tagged The Imaginative Conservative
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Waugh on Writing x 3
Waugh scores a hat trick in today’s press with three stories citing him on the art of writing. In the Daily Express, Waugh appears in a review of the BBC’s ongoing series based on John Lanchester’s 2012 novel Capital. The … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Interviews, Television
Tagged Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, Harvard Crimson
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Carly Simon, Brideshead Fan
The Daily Mail has published a review of the memoirs of singer-songwriter Carly Simon, Boys in the Trees. The article, by Tom Leonard, mentions how her life was affected by the 1980s Granada TV adaptation of Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited: … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Television
Tagged Carly Simon, Daily Mail
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Dominic Sandbrook Revisits Brideshead
The BBC is currently running a series on the history of British post-war popular culture. It is presented by historian and writer, Dominic Sandbrook, and entitled Let Us Entertain You. The second episode (“In With the Old”) was devoted to the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, British Popular Culture, Dominic Sandbrook
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Scoop TV Film To Be Aired
The 1987 TV film of Scoop will be available for streaming starting 11 December on Acorn TV. The script is by novelist William Boyd and is based on Evelyn Waugh’s 1938 novel which satirizes Fleet Street journalism. Outstanding performances include … Continue reading
