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Category Archives: Television Programs
Andrew Marr and Ma Meyrick
BBC4 is rebroadcasting Andrew Marr’s 2009 documentary series The Making of Modern Britain. Yesterday, this reached Episode 4: “Having a Ball.” This covered the 1920s, and both opened and closed with a party. Marr began by mixing a drink he … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Television Programs
Tagged Andrew Marr, Bath and Bottle Party, BBC, Bright Young Things, Ma Meyrick, The 'Twenties
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Evelyn Waugh: An End and a Beginning
Writing in the Weekly Standard, Elizabeth Kantor examines the fascination of viewers with the Netflix series The Crown and compares it to the earlier ITV series Downton Abbey. The article is entitled, with not too subtle irony, “Crown of Duty.” In the course … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop, Television Programs
Tagged Andrew Gimson, Conservativehome.com, Elizabeth Kantor, Netflix, The Crown, Tim Shipman, Weekly Standard
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Revisiting Brideshead TV Series in Holland
A Dutch language internet entertainment website has posted a review of the 1981 Granada TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. This is on the occasion of its recent rebroadcast in the Netherlands on the ONS Channel. The reviewer Robert Gooijer opens … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Television, Television Programs
Tagged delagarde.nl, Granada, Jeremy Irons, ONS TV Channel (Netherlands), Robert Gooijer
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Downside Abbey Features in New BBC Series
BBC 4 yesterday transmitted the first in a series called Retreat: Meditations from a Monastery. The subject of this first episode was Downside Abbey: The first film is set in Downside, a spectacular neo-gothic monastery set in the beautiful valleys … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Documentaries, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Society, Television, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Downside Abbey
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The Loved One in Gay Hollywood; D&F in the Antipodes
The Intro and “Outro” discussions of the film version of The Loved One from the recent broadcast on the Turner Classic Movies cable channel have been posted on YouTube. Appearing are Dave Karger from TCM and writer William J Mann. … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Film, Television Programs, The Loved One
Tagged BBC, Eva Longoria, Gay Hollywood, John Gielgud, Rod Steiger, The Spinoff, Turner Classic Movies, YouTube
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In Search of Arcadia
In several recent posts we have considered the concept of “Arcadia” and its contribution to Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, and vice versa. BBC Four earlier this week transmitted a documentary entitled “In Search of Arcadia” presented by Dr Janina Ramirez and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, In Search of Arcadia, Janina Ramirez
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Evelyn Waugh and Clare Balding’s Great Grandfather
In the latest episode of the BBC’s series Who Do You Thing You Are?, the subject is their sports presenter Clare Balding. As a member of the LGBT community, she is interested in finding out if any of her ancestors … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Clare Balding, Sir Malcolm Bullock, Who Do You Think You Are?
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Screen Credit Blues
The Irish Times has a story by Donald Clarke about the dissatisfaction of screen writer Neil Jordan with the final versions of the TV series Riviera episodes now running on Sky TV. According to the IT story, the final versions reflect … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television, Television Programs, The Loved One
Tagged Irish Times, John Mortimer, Neil Jordan, Riviera, Turner Classic Movies
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Betjeman Interview on BBC
BBC Four has rebroadcast a TV interview of Waugh’s friend and contemporary, John Betjeman, by Michael Parkinson. The original broadcast was in November 1977, and it was Betjeman’s third and final appearance in a Parkinson interview. According to Parkinson, Betjeman was the … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Television Programs
Tagged BBC, Bevis Hillier, John Betjeman, Michael Parkinson
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Pinfold and the Paranormal
A blogger posting as Truthspoon.com has made a detailed analysis of Evelyn Waugh’s novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold and compared the hallucinations described there with those reported by victims of alleged invasive electronic surveillance. According to the blogpost, Waugh’s novel: …gives a … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Radio Programs, Television Programs, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Uncategorized
Tagged Diary of an Autodidact, John Metcalf, Truthspoon.com, Walrus.ca
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