Category Archives: Television Programs

Brideshead 2008 Film Adaptation on BBC2

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

The Times has posted in its TV listings the following notice about the broadcast of the 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. This will take place today (Sa 27 Feb 2021) at 225 GMT: BBC2, 2.25pm The reaction to Julian … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Brideshead to Bridgerton

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Jeffrey Manley

–A new Netflix serial “Bridgerton” has been compared in several papers to Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited and its film and TV adaptations. Here an excerpt from the Bloomsberg News: … “Bridgerton” is a sly and sexy Netflix Inc. series set … Continue reading →

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Britain’s Favorite Novel on C5

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The UK’s Channel 5 yesterday broadcast a program called Britain’s Favorite Novel.  Only novels by British writers were considered. The selection was based on what they described as a poll of C5’s viewers. Since I would not be included in … Continue reading →

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Roundup: Agony Aunts and Metroland

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–In the Daily Telegraph, Rowan Pelling muses over whether novelists would make good advice to the lovelorn “agony aunts”. Pelling has always thought Edith Wharton would be excellent and notes that Simone de Beauvoir and Anaïs Nin in fact functioned … Continue reading →

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Waugh Night on BBC Four and Queer Stately Homes

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

–The BBC has announced the TV programming for next week that will include two Evelyn Waugh events on Thursday, 27 August. The first will be a rebroadcast of the 2008 theatrical film version of Brideshead Revisited, co-produced by the BBC … Continue reading →

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Perry Mason’s Return

Posted on August 9, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

Erle Stanley Gardner’s most famous character Perry Mason has returned to TV. This is in a new series on HBO which is about to conclude its first run tonight. Philip Martin has written a background article on the earlier CBS … Continue reading →

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Challenging Waugh Question

Posted on August 7, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

On this week’s BBC Two episode of University Challenge, a Waugh reference formed one half of a 10 point question. Jeremy Paxman presented the question thus: What five letter word links an ironic synonym for “Force” in Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop and … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh and “Sylvia Scarlett”

Posted on May 11, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The Turner Classic Movies channel will tomorrow broadcast the 1935 George Cukor adaptation of Compton MacKenzie’s 1918 novel The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett. Waugh came close to adapting the screenplay for the film. According to TCM’s notes … Continue reading →

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Waugh Podcasts

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The quarterly literary magazine Slightly Foxed has announced that its next podcast will be devoted to Evelyn Waugh. This will be posted on their website, probably on 15 April. Details such as topics, participants, time, etc. do not seem to … Continue reading →

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Castle Howard on Channel 4

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Jeffrey Manley

The UK’s Channel 4 has rebroadcast the episode of Phil Spencer’s Stately Homes that covers the visit to Castle Howard. This was first broadcast as the second episode of the program’s first series on 16 August 2016. Spencer makes only … Continue reading →

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