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The BBC Television Shakespeare project was the most ambitious engagement with Shakespeare ever undertaken by either a television or film production company. So large was the project that the BBC could not finance it alone, requiring a North American partner who could guarantee access to the United States market, deemed essential for the series ...
The show premiered on 9 May 2016 on BBC Two [1] as part of the commemorations of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. Its title quotes "an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers", a critique of Shakespeare by his rival Robert Greene in the latter's Groats-Worth of Wit. [2] The show is set from 1592 (the year of Greene's quotation ...
An Age of Kings is a fifteen-part serial adaptation of the eight sequential history plays of William Shakespeare (Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), produced and broadcast in Britain by the BBC in 1960.
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BritBox, the North American subscription streaming service devoted to British shows, will launch the full collection of BBC productions of Shakespeare's plays on May 26 exclusively on the platform.
The BBC scheduled the screening of Shakespeare's history plays as part of 2012's Cultural Olympiad, a celebration of British culture coinciding with the 2012 Summer Olympics. [3] Sam Mendes signed up as executive producer to adapt all four of Shakespeare's tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V) in September 2010. [4]
The Grand Prix: BBC One & BBC Two 1976 – 1996; BBC Three 2009 – 2015 (Rebroadcast between 2009 – 2015 on BBC Red Button and BBC iPlayer) Formula 1: BBC One, BBC Two & BBC Three 1976 – 1996 & 2009 – 2015 (rights transferred to Channel 4) World Snooker Championship: BBC One & BBC Two 1977 – present
[1] [2] The play was intended to run until 25 April 2020, but only ran up to mid-March, with the remainder cancelled as a result of restrictions put in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 3 ] The play reopened in the West End at the Apollo Theatre for a ten-week season from 23 September until 3 December 2022, with Mitchell and Gemma Whelan ...