EXCLUSIVE: “You thought you knew Scrooge,” an ominous voice intones. “You don’t know this Scrooge.” So get acquainted withEstella Scrooge, the upcoming world premiere streaming musical with a heavy-hitting Broadway pedigree.
This first-look trailer (watch it above) features Betsy Wolfe (Waitress) singing the show’s…
Here’s the featurette for a hybrid re-telling of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, featuring a voice cast of Simon Russell Beale, Siân Phillips, Carey Mulligan, Daniel Kaluuya, Andy Serkis, Martin Freeman and Leslie Caron.
The film opens on a Victorian family preparing a toy theatre for their annual performance of A …
FX is keen to stay in business with Steven Knight with the network hopeful for more Charles Dickens' adaptations and a second season of Taboo.
The cable network talked up its relationship with the Peaky Blinders creator and British public broadcaster the BBC, which co-produces both shows.
This comes afterA Christmas C…
The BBC’s streaming service iPlayer enjoyed its best-ever Christmas period after it was boosted by shows including Dracula, Gavin & Stacey and A Christmas Carol.
The online video player, where BBC shows are available to view for 12 months after they have been broadcast on television, racked up a total of 203M requests…
The BBC and FX’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol scared off nearly a third of its audience in the UK — but it still just about beat the competition on other channels.
The second episode of Scott Free London and Hardy Son & Baker’s reimagining of Charles Dickens’ classic tale was watched by 3.34M viewers on BBC One on…
Broadway’s West Side StoryandA Christmas Carol broke house records at their respective theaters last week as holiday business kept overall box office very sturdy. From the previous week, the 34 Broadway productions climbed 5% to a $40,645,773 box office total. The figure pushes Broadway’s season-to-date total past…
His Dark Materials, the BBC and HBO’s ambitious retelling of Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights novel, came to a close in the UK with just over 4M viewers, as the season struggled to maintain the audience highs of early episodes.
The final installment of Bad Wolf’s drama, starring Ruth Wilson, James Mcavoy and Dafne…
Well, that was fast: Director Ivo van Hove’sWest Side Story joined Broadway’s Million Dollar Club after only six previews, grossing $1,254,440 in its first week of performances.
The musical revival, with all-new choreography by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, filled all seats at the Broadway Theatre for the week ending…
BBC One will premiere its gruesome reworking of Bram Stoker’s Dracula on New Year’s Day.
The Netflix co-production, written by Sherlock's Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, will air on three consecutive nights from January 1, 2020. No word yet on when it will drop globally on Netflix.
Your New Year is gonna suck but…
Broadway box office mostly held steady last week, even as many shows might not have overmuch to cheer about during the pre-holiday week. In all, the 35 productions took in $32,015,929, down just 2% from the previous week’s 36-production roster.
Total attendance for the week ending Nov. 24 was 278,056, off about 4%…
There’s an abundance of treats offered by director Matthew Warchus’ staging of A Christmas Carol – like Andrea Martin dressed as a Victorian caroler mingling with the audience at Broadway Lyceum Theatre, handing out Clementines and cookies before curtain – but perhaps the best is the revelation that the Dickens…
