"The White Princess The White Princess is a 2013 historical novel by Philippa Gregory, part of her series ""The Cousins' War"". It is the story of Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville, and later wife of Henry VII and mother of Henry VIII. In October 2013, ""The Telegraph"" reported that Starz was planning to develop a miniseries based on ""The White Princess"". This adaptation would be a sequel to ""The White Queen"", a 10-part 2013 television series which adapted Gregory's novels ""The White Queen"" (2009), ""The Red Queen"" (2010) and ""The Kingmaker's Daughter"" (2012)."
"tear both the marriage and the kingdom apart. The 10-part 2013 television series ""The White Queen"" adapted Gregory's previous novels ""The White Queen"" (2009), ""The Red Queen"" (2010) and ""The Kingmaker's Daughter"" (2012). The series was broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom and on Starz in the United States, and features Freya Mavor as a young Elizabeth of York. Despite initial plans for a second series, on 20 August 2013 the BBC announced they were not commissioning one, possibly due to the lukewarm reception the series received. However, in October 2013, ""The Telegraph"" reported that Starz was planning"
"by Michael Maloney in the BBC drama ""The White Queen"", which is based on the novels. Stafford's relationship with Margaret is portrayed in the TV series as heavily strained, with Stafford torn between his obvious concern for his wife's well-being and his exasperation with her fanatical nature, given that he supported the Yorkists despite his wife's loyalty to the Lancastrians. Henry Stafford (c. 1425 – 1471) Sir Henry Stafford (c. 1425 – 4 October 1471) was the second son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Anne Neville, daughter of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Lady"
"the television series. The final episode of ""The White Queen"" was aired on 18 August 2013 and the series was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc the following day. Two days later, it was confirmed that ""The White Queen"" would not be returning for a second series. In a statement to ""Broadcast"", the BBC stated that the show was always planned as a one-season series. In October 2013, ""The Telegraph"" reported that Starz planned to develop a sequel miniseries called ""The White Princess"", based on Gregory's 2013 novel of the same name. Gregory confirmed that the project was underway in"
"The Kingmaker's Daughter The Kingmaker's Daughter is a 2012 historical novel by Philippa Gregory, part of her series ""The Cousins' War"". It is the story of Anne Neville, wife of Richard III of England. The 2013 BBC One television series ""The White Queen"" is a 10-part adaptation of Gregory's novels ""The White Queen"" (2009), ""The Red Queen"" (2010) and ""The Kingmaker's Daughter"", and features Faye Marsay as Anne Neville. Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick — called ""The Kingmaker"" — puts young Edward IV on the throne of England. But before Neville can arrange for one of his daughters to"
"to develop a sequel miniseries called ""The White Princess"", based on Gregory's novel. Starz CEO Chris Albrecht announced in January 2014 that the network was working with ""White Queen"" screenwriter Emma Frost on the project. Starz would produce the ""White Princess"" miniseries without involvement from the BBC. Gregory confirmed that the project was underway in August 2015. On 7 February 2016, Gregory announced on Facebook that the sequel was officially confirmed to be in production, with the scripts being written. The series was confirmed to be eight episodes in May 2016. Jodie Comer was cast in the title role of"
"created a portfolio ""Don Giovanni"" (woodcuts, limited edition); text - ""Don Giovanni"", the opening poem of the book. In August 2018, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an adaptation of Dennis Potter's screenplay, produced by Jon Amiel, producer of Potter's earlier ""The Singing Detective"", with author Thomas's reminiscences about the book's publication and various film proposals. The BBC production starred Anne-Marie Duff as Lisa and Bill Paterson as Dr Probst. The White Hotel The White Hotel is a novel written by the English poet, translator and novelist D. M. Thomas. It was first published in January 1981 by Gollancz in Great Britain"
"The White Earth The White Earth is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Andrew McGahan. The stage version, adapted by McGahan and Shaun Charles, premiered at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre in February–March 2009. The book follows a dual narrative between the perspectives of William and John, where William's takes place over the time period of late 1992 to 1993 and John's takes place from his childhood up to the present of 1993. William's narrative follows his father dying in an explosion and William and his mother being invited by John to Kuran Station. At the station, William learns"
"The Witch Hunters (novel) The Witch Hunters is a BBC Books original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It features the First Doctor, Barbara, Ian, and Susan. This book was republished in 2015 by BBC Books as part of the History Collection. With the Doctor wanting to repair the TARDIS in peace and quiet, Barbara, Ian and Susan decide to get some experience of living in the nearby village of Salem. But the Doctor knows about the horrors destined to engulf the village and determines that they should leave."
"The White Company The White Company is a historical adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle set during the Hundred Years' War. The story is set in England, France, and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward, the Black Prince to restore Peter of Castile to the throne of the Kingdom of Castile. The climax of the book occurs before the Battle of Nájera. Doyle became inspired to write the novel after attending a lecture on the Middle Ages in 1889. After extensive research, ""The White Company"" was published in serialized form in 1891"
"The African Queen (novel) The African Queen is a 1935 novel written by English author C. S. Forester. It was adapted into the 1951 film of the same name. The story opens in August/September 1914. Rose Sayer, a 33-year-old Englishwoman, is the companion and housekeeper of her brother Samuel, an Anglican missionary in German-colonized Tanganyika (present-day Tanzania). World War I has recently begun, and the German military commander of the area has conscripted all the natives; the village is deserted, and only Rose and her dying brother remain. Samuel dies during the night and Rose is alone. That day, another"
"The White Rose (Cook novel) The White Rose is the third novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history. Centuries in the past, the Dominator and his wife, the Lady, (both supremely skilled in the art of magic), had founded an empire legendary for evil. They were overthrown by a rebellion led by the White Rose, but even in defeat, they remained too powerful to be killed; the"
"The Snow Queen (Vinge novel) The Snow Queen is a science fiction novel by American writer Joan D. Vinge and illustrators Michael Whelan, and Leo and Diane Dillon, published in 1980. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1981, and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981. Based on the fairy-tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, ""The Snow Queen"" takes place on a mostly oceanic planet called Tiamat, whose suns orbit a black hole, which facilitates a type of interstellar wormhole travel and connects Tiamat to the rest of the"
"""Frankenstein's Wedding"", broadcast live from Leeds on BBC3, and ""Shirley"", a biopic on the singer Shirley Bassey which won a Cymru Bafta for Best Single Drama. In 2012, he directed ""The Town"", a three-part drama for ITV. In 2013, he directed ""The White Queen"" for BBC/Starz, which gained three Golden Globe Award nominations. Colin Teague Colin Teague is a British film and television director. He grew up in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and studied at Redroofs Theatre School and the London International Film School. He is most associated with ""Doctor Who"", being the first person to have directed for the main"
"The White Plague The White Plague is a 1982 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert that explores madness and revenge on a global scale. When an IRA terrorist car bomb explodes, the wife and children of molecular biologist John Roe O'Neill are indiscriminately killed on May 20, 1996. Driven halfway insane by loss, his mind fragments into several personalities that carry out his plan for him. He plans a gendercidal revenge and creates a plague that kills only women, but for which men are the carriers. O'Neill then releases it in Ireland (for supporting the terrorists), England (for oppressing the"
"The Woman in White (1997 TV series) The Woman in White (1997) is a BBC television adaptation very loosely based on the 1859 novel of the same name by Wilkie Collins. Unlike the epistolary style of the novel, the 2-hour dramatisation uses Marian as the main character. She bookends the film with her narration. Marian Fairlie (Tara Fitzgerald) and Laura Fairlie (Justine Waddell) are half-sisters (same father but different mothers). Laura's mother died, leaving Laura an inheritance which she will receive when she comes of age. They both live in Limmeridge with their uncle, Mr. Fairlie (Ian Richardson), who hires"
"as follows: The Snow Queen (2005 film) The Snow Queen is a 2005 BBC television film commissioned by Michael Carrington that is based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale of ""The Snow Queen"". Directed by Julian Gibbs, it stars Juliet Stevenson as Gerda's mother and the voice of Patrick Stewart as the raven. This film was originally conceived as a vehicle for music composed by Paul K. Joyce. A set of operatic songs had been written by Paul K. Joyce for a concert at the Barbican Arts Centre held in 2003. The songs narrated the fairytale of The Snow Queen"
"the Best Miniseries or Television Film category. Despite initial plans for a second series, on 20 August 2013 the BBC announced they were not commissioning one, possibly due to the lukewarm reception the series received. However, in October 2013,""The Telegraph"" reported that Starz was planning to develop a sequel miniseries called ""The White Princess"", based on Gregory's 2013 novel of the same name. Starz CEO Chris Albrecht announced in January 2014 that the network was working with ""White Queen"" screenwriter Emma Frost on the project. Starz would produce the ""White Princess"" miniseries without involvement from the BBC. Gregory confirmed that"
"Warwick appears prominently in the Philippa Gregory novels ""The White Queen"" (2009), ""The Red Queen"" (2010), and ""The Kingmaker's Daughter"" (2012), and is played by Juliet Aubrey in the 2013 television adaptation of all three novels, ""The White Queen"". She is depicted as a coldly ambitious mother to Isabel and Anne Neville, and her husband's staunchest supporter. A more sympathetic portrayal of the Countess of Warwick is in the novel ""The Sunne in Splendour"" by Sharon Kay Penman, and a maternal view of her is observed in ""The Reluctant Queen"" by Jean Plaidy. Novelist Sandra Worth represents the Countess as"
"Queen"" for BBC and Starz and its sequel ""The White Princess"" for Starz, the Golden Globe nominated anthology series ""The Missing"" for BBC and Starz, ""Dracula"" for NBC, ""Wolf Hall"", a Golden Globe and BAFTA-winning six-part miniseries starring Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis and Claire Foy for BBC and Masterpiece, which was an adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker prize winning novels ""Wolf Hall"" and ""Bring Up the Bodies"", and ""The Dresser"", a television adaptation of Ronald Harwood’s classic play starring Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins for BBC and Starz. In 2017 Callender produced Academy Award winner Kenneth Lonergan’s adaptation of ""Howards"
"""Being Human"" for the BBC, the Channel 4 sitcom ""London Irish"", which she created, writing for the Golden Globe-nominated drama series ""The White Queen"" for BBC 1, and ""Indian Summers"" for Channel 4. Her stage play ""Jump"" has been adapted into a film. McGee wrote ""Derry Girls"", a comedy series that began airing on Channel 4 in the UK in January 2018. She is married to the actor Tobias Beer. Lisa McGee Lisa McGee is an Northern Irish stage and screen writer. She was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, and studied Drama at The Queen's University of Belfast. She was"
"""Death at Buckingham Palace"" and ""Death at Windsor Castle"". The Queen is the subject of ""The Queen and I"", and is a character in ""Queen Camilla"", both books written by Sue Townsend. She is also a character in the book ""The Uncommon Reader"", by Alan Bennett. In 2006, she was portrayed by Helen Mirren in the Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated Stephen Frears film ""The Queen"", a fictional account of the immediate events following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The film ended up as the most critically acclaimed film of 2006. Mirren, who had been appointed into the"
"Paul Hilton as Henry VII, Mark Umbers as Warbeck, and Nadia Cameron Blakey as Elizabeth of York. In this drama, Margaret is depicted as the power behind the throne, a hardened woman of fanatical devotion to both God and herself. She is referenced as a victim of abuse and power, who, used by men all her life, became as ruthless and callous as those around her. In 2013, Amanda Hale portrayed Lady Margaret Beaufort in the television drama series, ""The White Queen"", an adaptation of Gregory's novels, which was shown on BBC One, Starz, and VRT. In the 2017 series"
"now led by Croaker as the highest ranked surviving officer, sneak away, taking the not-unwilling Lady with them. The White Rose (Cook novel) The White Rose is the third novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history. Centuries in the past, the Dominator and his wife, the Lady, (both supremely skilled in the art of magic), had founded an empire legendary for evil. They were overthrown by a"
"The Snow Queen (2005 film) The Snow Queen is a 2005 BBC television film commissioned by Michael Carrington that is based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale of ""The Snow Queen"". Directed by Julian Gibbs, it stars Juliet Stevenson as Gerda's mother and the voice of Patrick Stewart as the raven. This film was originally conceived as a vehicle for music composed by Paul K. Joyce. A set of operatic songs had been written by Paul K. Joyce for a concert at the Barbican Arts Centre held in 2003. The songs narrated the fairytale of The Snow Queen and featured"
"the winter. Broadcast in July 2012, it consists of adaptations of ""An Event in Autumn"", ""The Dogs of Riga"" and ""Before the Frost"". While the novel ""Before the Frost"" has Wallander's daughter Linda as its protagonist detective, the story was adapted for television so that Wallander himself became the lead. The BBC ""Wallander"" series concluded in May 2016 with a three-episode fourth series consisting of an adaptation of ""The White Lioness"" and a two-episode adaptation of Mankell's final Wallander novel, ""The Troubled Man"". Mankell's friend and writer Jan Guillou used Kurt Wallander in the 10th book of his Carl Hamilton-series"
"commissioning one, possibly due to the lukewarm reception the series received. However, in October 2013, ""The Telegraph"" reported that Starz was planning to develop a sequel miniseries called ""The White Princess"", based on Gregory's novel. Starz CEO Chris Albrecht announced in January 2014 that the network was working with ""White Queen"" screenwriter Emma Frost on the project. Starz would produce the ""White Princess"" miniseries without involvement from the BBC. Gregory confirmed that the project was underway in August 2015. On 7 February 2016, Gregory announced on Facebook that the sequel was officially confirmed to be in production, with the scripts"
"Cathedral, and Wells. Jamie Payne, who directed three episodes of ""The White Queen"", directed episodes 1, 2, 3, 7, and 8. Frost is showrunner and executive producer. Lachlan MacKinnon is serving as producer, with Gregory as executive producer. Playground's Colin Callender and Scott Huff are serving as executive producers with Company Pictures' Michele Buck. In early January 2017, the producers released a video clip from the series as a teaser trailer. In February 2017, Starz announced that ""The White Princess"" would premiere on 16 April 2017. In the UK the series began its satellite and terrestrial broadcasts on the Drama"
"The Nightmare of Black Island The Nightmare of Black Island is a BBC Books original novel written by Mike Tucker and based on the long-running science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It was published on 21 September 2006, alongside ""The Art of Destruction"" and ""The Price of Paradise"". It features the Tenth Doctor and Rose. On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline, a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. Bronwyn Ceredig,"
"tradition, Aneurin Barnard played Richard in the 2013 BBC-Starz joint production TV series ""The White Queen"" based on Philippa Gregory’s novels, and in September 2014 BBC started filming a new TV version of the Shakespearean play for the second part of ""The Hollow Crown"" with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. Richard's career is the subject of the 1939 film ""Tower of London"", in which he is played by Basil Rathbone. The film was later remade by Roger Corman in 1962, starring Vincent Price as Richard (Price had played Clarence in the earlier version). Richard is a thorough-paced villain in"
"White Queen (Through the Looking-Glass) The White Queen is a fictional character who appears in Lewis Carroll's fantasy novel ""Through the Looking-Glass"". Along with her husband the White King, she is one of the first characters to be seen in the story. She first appears in the drawing room just beyond the titular looking-glass as an animate chesspiece unable to see or hear Alice, the main character. The Queen is looking for her daughter Lily; Alice helps her by lifting the White Queen and King onto the table, leading them to believe they were thrown up by an invisible volcano."
"Scarlet and Black (TV series) Scarlet and Black is a British four-part television drama series first aired in 1993 on BBC 1 by the BBC with a cast including Ewan McGregor and Rachel Weisz. The series was adapted by Stephen Lowe from the novel ""The Red and the Black"" (1830) by French writer Stendhal. The story follows an ambitious, but impoverished young man, who seduces women of high social standing in order to improve his prospects; an Icarus of the post-Napoleonic era. The series is a faithful adaptation of the novel ""Le Rouge et le Noir"" and is condensed into"
"Brisbane, Australia. 23 February-21 March 2009 Adapted and Directed by Shaun Charles and Andrew McGahan Designer Greg Clarke Lighting Designer David Walters Sound Designer/Composer Guy Webster Cinematic Design Markwell Presents Cast Stace Callaghan, Dan Eady, Penny Everingham, Kathryn Marquet, Veronica Neave, Anthony Phelan & Steven Tandy The White Earth The White Earth is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Andrew McGahan. The stage version, adapted by McGahan and Shaun Charles, premiered at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre in February–March 2009. The book follows a dual narrative between the perspectives of William and John, where William's takes place over the"