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Tag Archives: Acorn TV
Battle of the Oxfords
The regional UK paper Frome Times has announced an upcoming event that may be of interest to our readers: Lutyens’ Mells Park is the venue for a hot debate on Who Was Shakespeare? between biographer and critic Alexander Waugh, grandson … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Alexander Waugh, Complete Works, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh Society, Events, Newspapers, Sword of Honour, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, Clare Asquith, Frome Times
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Decline & Fall: DVD Extra Features
The Acorn TV DVD of the BBC’s Decline and Fall adaptation has 15 minutes of extra features. This is for sale in North America. These include interviews with several of the cast and crew falling into 3 tightly edited 5-minute … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Interviews, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, BBC, DVD, Guillem Morales, James Wood
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West Coast Waugh
The Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco) has a review of Acorn TV’s DVD version of the BBC adaptation of Decline and Fall. After a background of the novel’s writing and summary of the story, reviewer Brian Bromberger concludes with this: Director … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television, The Loved One
Tagged Acorn TV, Brian Bromberger, Caitlin Doughty, Robert McCrum, The Bay Area Reporter, The Spectator
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Decline & Fall DVD to be Released in USA
Acorn TV will begin USA sales of the DVD of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall later this month. This is the BBC’s adaptation that was broadcast in the UK earlier this year. Amazon.com has announced availability of the DVD effective 12 … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Items for Sale, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, BBC, DVD
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Stephen Fry Film Compared to Waugh
The Daily Mirror in a review of the film adaptation of Stephen Fry’s 1994 novel The Hippopotamus describe it as a “mildly successful hybrid of a film noir detective story and the novels of Evelyn Waugh.” They don’t much like what … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Film, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Television, Vile Bodies
Tagged Acorn TV, Anglotopia.net, Artforum, Daily Mirror, Ernst Lubitsch, Stephen Fry
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Decline and Fall in the National Review
Kyle Smith, drama critic of the National Review, has written a favorable review of the recent TV adaptation of Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall. This is now running on what Smith describes as “the superb streaming service Acorn TV, which … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, Kyle Smith, National Review
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USA Premiere of Decline and Fall Today
Acorn-TV is premiering the BBC’s adaptation of Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall today. All three episodes are available now for streaming, and a free one-week trial is on offer for those who do not already have subscriptions. Here’s the link … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, Los Angeles Times, Robert Lloyd
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Decline and Fall in the US Papers
The TV Critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, David Weigand, has written a quite favorable review of the BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall which will debut tomorrow in the US: Biting wit and a farcically frothy plot make “Decline … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, David Weigand, James Wood, San Francisco Chronicle, Tobias Grey, Wall Street Journal
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Acorn TV Posts Trailer for Decline and Fall
Acorn TV has posted a trailer on the internet for its streaming of the BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall. The series is available next week starting on Monday, 15 May. The Acorn trailer differs from that used by BBC. … Continue reading
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Tagged Acorn TV, trailer
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NY Times Promotes Decline and Fall TV Streaming
In a new New York Times column entitled “Watching” and carried in its online edition, the paper has an article focusing on four new TV streaming services that specialize in bringing programs from European TV networks to US viewers. These services … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Acorn TV, BBC, New York Times
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