Vikings and The Tudors creator Michael Hirst has teamed with Sherlock producer Hartswood Films and Wild Bunch TV to remake Doctor Zhivago. Hirst is adapting Boris Pasternak's classic novel for TV as an eight-part series. It is being produced by British indie Hartswood Films, which is producing forthcoming BBC drama Dra…

The BAFTA Rocliffe Comedy Writing Competition has found its winners who will showcase their work for U.S. TV experts in New York in October. A UK-wide competition to find the nation's most promising comedy writers, it's headed to the New York Television Festival for the 5th time under the banner BAFTA Rocliffe New…

Omar Sharif, by the far the most iconic film star ever to emerge out of the Arab world, has died at the age of 83. Sharif’s agent revealed he had suffered a heart attack in a hospital in Cairo. It had been revealed in May that Sharif was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Sharif, born Michel Shalhoub in Egypt to a…

The critically lambasted musical from composer Lucy Simon, lyricists Michael Korie and Amy Powers and book writer Michael Weller, will shutter…

Broadway musicals are like chemistry sets. Even the smartest kid in the class occasionally conjures a potion smelling suspiciously of rotten eggs. That’s the case with Doctor Zhivago, the new musical spectacular devised by some of most experienced talents in the business. Somewhere along this show’s torturous…

Milos Forman was looking for the best writer to adapt the hippie anti-war musical Hair for the big screen. The Czech filmmaker already had a growing U.S. following in the wake of The Firemen’s Ball and Taking Off when 1975’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest took home five Oscars including best film and best…