In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall• Mark Lawson: Maggie Smith was a magisterial star with the courage and talent to do absolutely everythingMaggie Smith, the prolific, multi-award-winning actor whose... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-09-27 13:17:05 UTC ]
Shani Gonzales of Warner Chappell says that although people are ‘having fun’ with creating AI songs, ‘what happens when someone tries to sell it?’Arriving in London in the teeth of the pandemic to take a top music industry job, Shani Gonzales had few opportunities to immerse herself in British... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-06-25 13:00:26 UTC ]
‘The Disappearing Act’ is a twisty novel that capitalizes on Steadman’s Hollywood experience. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-06-06 12:00:00 UTC ]
"Paddington" and "Downton Abbey" star Hugh Bonneville is voicing the free audiobook for Nosy Crow's recently released children's e-book about coronavirus. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-20 18:06:43 UTC ]
Her new book, “Mr. Nobody,” is a delightfully twisty follow-up to her debut, “Something in the Water.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-01-02 16:00:00 UTC ]
The DOWNTON ABBEY movie premieres in the U.S. on September 20, so we've rounded up a list of books with similar themes for fans of the show. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-09-16 10:32:23 UTC ]
Quarto imprint White Lion Publishing has snapped up a "Downton Abbey" cookbook and collection of cocktail recipes to coincide with a film version of the hit series. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-19 11:12:00 UTC ]
Headline has scooped an official companion book to the forthcoming "Downton Abbey" movie, bringing the world and characters of the fictional country house to life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-19 06:11:07 UTC ]
Every weekday, we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new and trending TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, a company that catalogs, tags and measures activity around TV ads in real time. The new releases here ran on TV for the first time yesterday. The Most Engaging ads are showing sustained... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
‘Downton Abbey’ creator Julian Fellowes returns with the Victorian Era novel Belgravia, #13 in Hardcover Fiction. Plus comedian Michael Ian Black plays his Trump card, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong writes a book about a TV show about nothing, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion is releasing a serialised novella by "Downton Abbey" creator and writer Julian Fellowes as part of a “groundbreaking” new app and storytelling experience. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
With "Downton Abbey" reviving interest in the period between the two world wars, the publishing arm of the British Library has been releasing new editions of forgotten classics published in Britain’s golden age of mystery (considered to span most of the 1920s and ’30s) since 2012. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Kindle is now a 'proud sponsor' of Downton Abbey. And it suits, as the show's story arc reflects the current dynamic in the publishing business. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Specs Who Chris Colfer Age 24 Accomplishments Star of Fox’s Glee; screenwriter; author of The Land of Stories book series (his latest, A Grimm Warning, was just released) Base Los Angeles What’s the first information you consume in the morning? I immediately turn to my cellphone and look to... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anthony Russell's vivid stories provide insight into the life of English nobility in the 1950s and '60s -- along with consequences that come with being handed every material good on a silver plate.Imagine if a woman such as the Dowager Countess from “Downton Abbey” was one of your grandmothers.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mystery of how Holmes survived rooftop fall is solved, Peter Capaldi makes Doctor Who debut, and Open All Hours returnsIt is a mystery that gripped the nation. Finally the BBC will reveal how Sherlock Holmes survived falling to his apparent certain death, in a festive TV lineup that will also... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
With Downton Abbey on hiatus, Sadie Jones has your fix: her twisty British country drama The Uninvited Guests, centers on a house called Sterne and the family desperate to hold onto it. Read the first chapter here. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
As president of Hearst Magazines, David Carey devotes most of his reading time to Hearst's 20 titles. He also finds time for personal favorites from other publishers, including Hemmings Motor News (Mr. Carey is a classic-cars buff) and The New Yorker, where he served as publisher. “It's more fun... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a move likely to inflame critics of the Man Booker prize judging process, actor Dan Stevens... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 18/03/2011 - 08:33 Collins has bought the rights to a companion book to ITV1's "Downton Abbey", for publication this autumn. Publisher Hannah MacDonald and senior editor Louise Stanley bought world rights in all languages from Gareth Neame, m.d.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]