Disney's Cable Channel for high-end series
FX
As Disney and Hulu slowly merge together in 2024, one of the more interesting aspects will be how FX shakes out. The more adult-oriented network was part of the 20th Century Fox brands that Disney acquired in 2019, and while it is about as "Un-Disney" as
FX
The Australian-born British writer James Clavell was well-known in Hollywood for The Fly, The Great Escape, and To Sir, With Love before becoming a best-selling novelist for Shōgun in the 1970s. Perhaps the only surprising thing about his book being adapted in 1980 for the screen is
FX
When the second season finale of FX’s popular sports docuseries Welcome to Wrexham aired earlier this month, it came with the welcome, if unsurprising, news that fans could look forward to a third season following the Red Dragons’ adventures in the first year following their longed for and long-
FX
FX's decision to hop on the reality train with Disney+ UK to produce Welcome to Wrexham is one of the more oddball decisions out of the streaming era, but not the worst one by far. Ted Lasso's sudden popularity in 2020 made the idea of Americans
FX
It's been 25 years since five unemployed steelworkers let their buddy convince them to strip off live on stage to make a quick buck. That doesn't sound like a promising premise, but in The Full Monty, it worked. The 1997 film was a British comedy about
FX
The Full Monty was never planned to be a massive hit in America. The story of six unemployed steel workers in 1990s era Sheffield who turn to getting their kits off to support their families was far too risque, far too class conscious, and far too British for Americans to
Great Expectations
Steven Knight was once known for his gritty, compelling scripts for Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises, but had shown his capability for historical fiction in Amazing Grace. All these would be a precursor for his output over the past decade, kicking off with the smash-hit Peaky Blinders and
Great Expectations
In 2019, the BBC and FX brought us writer Stephen Knight's (Peaky Blinders) dark and dire interpretation of A Christmas Carol. If you thought Charles Dickens couldn’t get any grimmer or weirder, you were wrong. His follow up, the new FX/BBC production of Great Expectations, probably
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If Shakespeare defined the pop culture of the first Elizabethan era, then Charles Dickens did the same for the Victorian one. From A Christmas Carol, which synthesized Victoria and Albert's push to popularize a secularist Germanic tradition for the industrial age, to David Copperfield, a bildungsroman detailing Victorian
FX
Though Great Expectations is not Charles Dickens' most frequently adapted work --- that honor goes to A Christmas Carol, which has been dramatized and remixed countless times for virtually every medium and performance genre --- but it may well be the work whose original text American audiences are most familiar with,
FX
Charles Dickens may not quite have the sheer span of centuries as Shakespeare does, but as one of England’s most famous writers, his estate isn’t letting a little thing like “born ~200 years after Shakespeare died” get in the way of that. Give us a couple hundred more
Drama
Between The Crown, The Favourite, The Lost Daughter, Les Miserables, Broadchurch, Landscapers, Empire of Light, and at least a half dozen other major film and television titles in recent years, it's glaringly evident that Emmy, BAFTA, and Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman is one of the best performers